Bond Investing Guide - Learn the Bond Basics!

Welcome to Bond Basics.

This site is designed to be both an introduction and a beginners guide to bond investing. Here you will find a wide range of information and resources to help you explore the world of bond investing.

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About Bonds
Bonds are a form of loan, made by bondholders to a company.

Stocks and Bonds
The average investor may never have bought a bond, even after dabbling in Exchange Traded Funds, Futures or even more esoteric investments.

Bonds versus Other Investments
Investors have too much to think about. Where are interest rates headed? Will the stock market rise or fall? Can investing in mutual funds save money and free up time? And, that eternal nagging question: Where to invest?

Bond Investment Basics
Unlike the stock market, there's no central exchange for trading bonds. Nevertheless, the process is almost as easy as trading equities.

Bond Rating
Nowhere else in the investing world can the interested bond investor get more helpful information than that available from the various bond rating agencies.

Different Bond Types
One way to divide bond types is by issuer. The practice isn't trivial, since it guides the investor in making decisions about risk, yield and tax liability.

Corporate Bonds
Life is risky. Every day investors are faced with complex choices in the face of deep uncertainty. What to do? Look at history and realize that the odds favor the educated. One opportunity for learning comes in the form of corporate bond offers.

Government Bonds
It's often said that government bonds represent one of the lowest possible risks for an investor. In general, true - but much depends on which government issues them and which investor is buying.

Eurobonds
A Eurobond is a bond issued and traded in a country other than the one in which it's currency is denominated.

Junk Bonds
Junk bonds - more politely known as high-yield bonds - acquired the name as a consequence of their low rating by the major agencies and their high rate of default.

Bond Funds
Like other funds, bond funds operate by pooling investor money then diversifying that investment by buying and selling different instruments, attempting to maximize return while minimizing risk.

Tax Considerations for Bond Investors
This interesting article addresses some of the key issues regarding tax and bond.

Bond Trading Strategy
Keeping up with changes or better still, anticipating them, is what bond trading strategy is all about.

Bonds and Interest Rates
The information in the article below comes straight from well-informed experts with special knowledge about how do interest rates affect bonds.

Measuring Bonds Risk
Despite the appearance of numerology, measuring risk quantitatively is carried out by analysts every day. Take advantage of their knowledge by using it to judge investment risk for your own portfolio.

Managing Bonds Risk
Every bond carries some risk that the issuer will default on repayment of the principal or suspend interest payments.

Bond Analysis
There are more methods for analyzing bonds than there are bonds, or so it seems. Even so, some are clearly essential to evaluating risk and potential returns.

Calculating Bond Yields
The most general meaning of bond yield is the amount of money returned, expressed as a percentage of the initial investment.

Bond Terms
A list of glossary of useful bond terms.