Individual bonds and bond funds are two fundamentally different instruments that work well in different market situations. Bonds are secure investments that generally come with a fixed return and in most cases, with a predetermined maturity amount. Bond funds or bond mutual funds, on the other hand, are mutual funds that invest exclusively in such ...

With advancements in modern medicine, people today live longer than their ancestors. America is expected to have 589,000 centenarians by 2060, as opposed to 82,000 in 2016. While humans have been chasing the idea of a long life for many decades, the one problem that people are still tackling is generating enough income.  For a ...

The financial rulebook says that you should never depend on a single income, and that creating a second source by strategic investments is the answer to a secure life. But if investing was that easy, everyone would be a stock trader.  Market volatility, risk tolerance, allocation of units, and finding the right time period to ...