Fixed Income Investments can offer a steady stream of income and less risk when compared to stocks. Latest analysis on these investments and the impact to your portfolio.
The biggest challenge in investing comes in the bond market, Columbia Threadneedle Investments' Edward Kerschner said. Interest rates have stopped falling after 35 years of decline. "We have a new rate regime," he said.
Odds are that with rates in general low, an expanding Fed balance sheet will have to come into play in a much bigger way in the next downturn, and the Fed will probably be slow in figuring that out. Risk assets may struggle to take solace in that.