Barron’s has long favored dividend-paying stocks for those seeking income. But bonds now deserve a hard look because they are ...

JPMorgan has made a significant move in the investment world by launching its largest-ever active exchange-traded fund (ETF), ...

Junk bond ETFs open the world of high-yield bond investing to ordinary investors in a way previously inaccessible. Generally regarded as far more exposed to default risk, junk bonds feature higher ...

Short-term bond ETFs can help investors earn modest monthly income while protecting against rising interest rates.

Junk bond ETFs are sold on the public market, making it easy for investors to buy and sell shares of the ETF. To invest in a high-yield bond fund , investors will need to open a brokerage account ...

High-yield bond ETFs tracked by Morningstar Direct–a group that includes all junk bond ETFs–average a 0.43% expense ratio. A whopping 89% of those high-yield-bond ETFs report a prospectus net ...

HYS tracks short-term junk bonds. While HYS has a high 30-day SEC yield of about 7.7%, the risk of this ETF makes it not worth it. The junk bond spread over 10-year treasury bonds suggests that we ...

Tactical high-yield ETFs were a mixed bag, with some strategies falling into the best 10 junk bond ETFs for the year to date, and others appearing on this worst-of list.

The other option is to find individual ETFs that combine investment-grade and junk bonds. There are surprisingly few ETFs that cover the true total bond market.

Several options exist with expense ratios below 0.10% with the lowest being the Schwab High Yield Bond ETF (SCYB) at 0.03%. In my high yield bond ETF rankings, which are driven by a number of ...

Bond ETFs tend to be more liquid and cost-effective than bond mutual funds, and offer diversified bond holdings across a range of bond types, from U.S. Treasuries to junk bonds. Do Bond ETFs Pay ...

Rising interest rates are making shorter-duration, high-yielding junk bonds particularly attractive for income investors ...