We make individual corporate bonds a better alternative to bond funds.
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Our Mission
To empower individual investors to benefit from the income, growth, and capital preservation individual corporate bonds can provide.
The Problems BondSavvy Solves
Very few investors own individual corporate bonds in spite of their advantages vs. bond funds. We founded BondSavvy to solve the key problems investors face so more investors can benefit from owning individual corporate bonds:
| Weak returns of overdiversified, inefficient bond funds and ETFs | |
| Biased Moody's and S&P ratings that also ignore price, yield, and interest-rate risk | |
| Difficult to select from 9,000 available corporate bonds | |
| Many investors believe corporate bonds are too hard to understand |
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Investment returns for 76% of our bond picks beat the leading bond ETFs |
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Comprehensive investment analysis that picks bonds with high total return potential |
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4-6 new corporate bond picks presented every quarter following earnings releases |
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Educating and empowering investors is central to everything we do |
Why Invest in Individual Corporate Bonds
Investors who want income, protection of principal, capital appreciation, and transparency can find all of these benefits with individual corporate bonds. Corporate bonds offer many advantages over bond funds, dividend stocks, and municipal bonds:
Corporate Bonds vs. Dividend Stocks:
With blue-chip companies such as Boeing, Disney, and Ford suspending dividends, corporate bond investing has never been more important. Individual corporate bonds provide investors with income they can rely on, opportunities for capital appreciation, and greater principal protection than dividend stocks.
What Makes BondSavvy Different
BondSavvy has built a better mousetrap for corporate bond investing. We combine a proven bond investing strategy with a second-to-none subscriber experience.
A Better Bond Investing Strategy
With over 23 years of experience in the financial markets, BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw has created an investing strategy that provides subscribers an edge. Key parts of this strategy include:
We recommend corporate bonds that have attractive yields relative to their risk and have the opportunity for capital appreciation and strong total returns.
See our full investment strategyWe make new corporate bond recommendations after quarterly earnings releases and as opportunities present themselves. This enables us to capitalize on opportunities over the course of time.
Learn why our approach beats bond laddersAfter making an initial recommendation, we regularly update our analysis based on new company financial reports and the performance of our recommended bonds
We sell previously recommended bonds when little upside remains based on the financial performance of the company and the price of the recommended bond relative to comparable bonds
When To Sell BondsWhy You Should Trust BondSavvy
Expertise, alignment of interests, and performance are how BondSavvy earns the trust of its subscribers. Subscribers pay BondSavvy a subscription fee for access to our corporate bond recommendations and updates, and they execute trades through bond trading platforms such as Fidelity.com and E*TRADE. We don’t earn trading commissions and are not a broker-dealer selling you bonds, so we can provide subscribers with unbiased investment recommendations that can outperform the market.
Corporate Bond Expertise
Our sole focus is individual corporate bond investments for individual investors. Founder Steve Shaw has presented to the SEC on the state of retail bond investing. He has also presented his bond investing strategy on Fidelity and E*TRADE webinars and to over 20 nationwide chapters of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII).
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Alignment of Interests
BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw seeks to own a substantial portion of BondSavvy's recommendations, which aligns our interests with our subscribers. In addition, since we are not a broker-dealer that holds bond inventory, we make each recommendation based on its merits. This is different from many traditional financial advisors who recommend bonds primarily because those same bonds are owned by their firm’s trading desk and the firm earns money on the corporate bond bid-ask spread and a juicy financial advisor commission.
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Strong Performance
BondSavvy has shown how owning a select portfolio of corporate bonds can outperform the leading bond ETFs. Through October 29, 2021, the investment returns of 76% of our corporate bond recommendations have beaten their benchmark corporate bond ETF.
See Our ReturnsA Better Subscriber Experience
As soon as you subscribe to BondSavvy, you immediately gain access to every corporate bond recommendation we have made since September 2017. You will also see our current buy/sell/hold recommendations and the presentations and reports that support each recommendation.
As a BondSavvy subscriber, you will:
- Be empowered to increase your investment returns with our 25 annual corporate bond recommendations
- Receive frequent recommendation updates via webcast and email
- Save significant time, as BondSavvy does the investment analysis for you
- Learn bond investing from Steve Shaw, the world's leading expert on corporate bond investing for individual investors
What Our Subscribers Are Saying
How BondSavvy Works
BondSavvy empowers subscribers to make successful buy/sell corporate bond investment decisions. BondSavvy narrows the universe of corporate bonds to a select number we recommend to our subscribers. We then monitor our recommended corporate bonds and issuing companies and decide whether to recommend buying more bonds, holding recommended bonds, or selling previously recommended bonds. Our subscribers follow the below three steps when making direct investments in corporate bonds:
Watch The Bondcast
BondSavvy empowers you to invest in corporate bonds by presenting the best bonds to buy during The Bondcast, a subscriber-only investment webinar we host after companies report quarterly earnings.
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Make Direct Investments
You decide which of our recommended bonds to buy and make direct investments through your own online brokerage. Investing in bonds online is an efficient and competitive marketplace, where individual investors can invest at bond prices that are competitive with large bond funds.
How To Invest Online
Lock in Bond Returns
Our goal is to maximize the total return on each corporate bond we recommend. Corporate bond prices have ceilings and cannot increase in value to the extent stocks can. We therefore advocate selling bonds prior to maturity when we believe a recommended bond has maximized its investment return opportunity.
When To Sell BondsLearn About Corporate Bond Investing
To help educate and empower investors, we have created the world’s #1 blog focused on investing in individual corporate bonds.
Our Next Move
May 26, 2021On May 20, 2021, BondSavvy presented four new corporate bond recommendations during The Bondcast, an interactive webcast a... Read more
How To Profit from Rising Interest Rates
May 15, 2021Bond investors should be embracing rising interest rates rather than running scared. While rising interest rates may... Read more
Best Bonds To Buy 2021
March 15, 2021On March 11, 2021, BondSavvy presented six new corporate bond recommendations to its investment newsletter subscribers dur... Read more
BondSavvy's Impact on Corporate Bond Trading
January 22, 2021As BondSavvy’s subscriber base has grown, so too has the corporate bond trading activity following our investment recommen... Read more
Frequently Asked Questions
We have also created a Corporate Bonds FAQ page to empower investors to add individual corporate bonds to their portfolios.
Upcoming Investment Webinars & Presentations
BondSavvy Live
February 17, 2022
Bond investing Q&A with founder and fixed income expert Steve Shaw. Purchase our investment newsletter subscription to join. Watch preview of BondSavvy Live.
The Super Bondcast
March 24, 2022
Live webcast where we update our 40+ bond recommendations. Purchase our investment newsletter subscription to join.
The Bondcast
April 06, 2022
BondSavvy founder and fixed income expert Steve Shaw presents new corporate bond recommendations. Purchase our investment newsletter subscription to join.