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Category: Bonds

  • All About Bonds – Part 3

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    This article is the third in a series: All About Bonds – Part 1 All About Bonds – Part 2 On this blog, Smart Saving and Investing, I concentrate on three financial tasks that many people can do: Save money on a regular basis automatically by opening up an online savings account and linking it…

  • All About Bonds – Part 2

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    This article is the second in a series: All About Bonds – Part 1 All About Bonds – Part 3 In part one of this series on All About Bonds, you read about three main types of Bonds – U.S. Government Bonds, Municipal Bonds and Corporate Bonds. You were also introduced to a fund that…

  • Hitting Home Runs with Bonds

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    The New Home Run King!! Barry Bonds was all the talk with his record setting home runs at 756, 1 better than the great Hank Aaron. Barry Bonds now stands alone. Bonds set this record on 8/7/2007 in San Francisco against Washington. Well, one Bond fund that doesn’t stand alone but ranks in the top…

  • All About Bonds – Part 1

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    This article is the first in a series: All About Bonds – Part 2 All About Bonds – Part 3 So what are Bonds anyway? Bonds represent a loan. For example, if you lend the U.S. government some cash in the form of a U.S. Government Bond for the amount of $xxx.xx, they will promise…