Morningstar's director of fixed-income research offers a checklist for specialty bond shoppers and a few of his personal favorites among the noncore categories.
Morningstar's director of fixed-income research offers up his picks for the core of your portfolio, go-anywhere flexibility, short-term savings, inflation protection, and aggressive kickers.
October data show continued inflows for bonds (including riskier fixed-income assets), while investors withdrew money from U.S. stock mutual funds and ETFs.