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New Corporate Bond Recommendations Coming November 14
New Corporate Bond Recommendations Coming November 14
Posted by Steve Shaw updated October 22, 2024

Bondsavvy will present new corporate bond recommendations November 14, 2024 at 5:00pm EST during The Bondcast, a financial webinar available exclusively to Bondsavvy subscribers. We founded Bondsavvy to empower individual investors to benefit from the...

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How More Fed Rate Cuts Could Impact Bond Yields and Mortgage Rates
How More Fed Rate Cuts Could Impact Bond Yields and Mortgage Rates
Posted by Steve Shaw updated October 13, 2024

In October 2024, seven years after Steve Shaw founded Bondsavvy's bond recommendation service, Bondsavvy launched the Bondsavvy Economic Advisor newsletter to provide an unbiased perspective on how economic trends and public policy impact subscribers'...

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Eight Reasons Not To Own Vanguard VMFXX
Eight Reasons Not To Own Vanguard VMFXX
Posted by Steve Shaw updated November 5, 2024

The Vanguard VMFXX 7 day yield has already fallen 0.5 points since September, in line with the September 2024 Fed rate cut. With two additional points of Fed rate cuts projected in the latest...

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September 2024 Fed Dot Plot Sees Sub-3% Fed Funds by 2026
September 2024 Fed Dot Plot Sees Sub-3% Fed Funds by 2026
Posted by Steve Shaw updated September 18, 2024

On September 18, 2024, the US Federal Reserve released the September 2024 Fed dot plot, which showed 2.5 points of total interest rate cuts by yearend 2026, including the 0.5-point rate cut the Fed...

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We Updated Our 68 Corporate Bond Picks September 5
We Updated Our 68 Corporate Bond Picks September 5
Posted by Steve Shaw updated September 17, 2024

We founded Bondsavvy to empower individual investors and to put them in control of their bond investing portfolios. Owning individual corporate bonds enables investors to lock in yields for a specific time period, something...

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12 Recommended Corporate Bonds To Buy 2024
12 Recommended Corporate Bonds To Buy 2024
Posted by Steve Shaw updated November 7, 2024

So far in 2024, Bondsavvy has presented 12 new recommended corporate bonds to Bondsavvy subscribers. We will present new corporate bond recommendations again on November 14 during The Bondcast financial webinar. These bond recommendations...

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Selling Bonds Before Maturity: 6 Key Considerations
Selling Bonds Before Maturity: 6 Key Considerations
Posted by Steve Shaw updated November 5, 2024

Selling bonds before maturity is a key part of maximizing income and total returns. It also helps reduce risk. Many investors prefer holding bonds to maturity through bond ladders, but we have a different...

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View Recording of Finding Value in Corporate Bonds, a Fidelity Webinar on Demand
View Recording of "Finding Value in Corporate Bonds," a Fidelity Webinar on Demand
Posted by Steve Shaw updated August 26, 2023

For the sixth year in a row, Bondsavvy founder Steve Shaw was invited as a guest speaker to a Fidelity Investments webinar.  Fidelity recorded this April 18, 2023 webinar, "Finding Value in Corporate Bonds,"...

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Bondsavvy Updates Its 48 Bond Picks During Fixed Income Webinar
Bondsavvy Updates Its 48 Bond Picks During Fixed Income Webinar
Posted by Steve Shaw updated April 5, 2023

On Saturday, September 10, BondSavvy updated its 48 buy/hold corporate bond recommendations during The Super Bondcast, a subscriber-only fixed income webinar.  We host The Super Bondcast four times each year, shortly after companies report...

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How To Build a Bond Portfolio: Ten Dos and Don'ts
How To Build a Bond Portfolio: Ten Dos and Don'ts
Posted by Steve Shaw updated June 5, 2023

We founded BondSavvy in 2017 to make bond investing easy and more profitable for individual investors. While we have narrowed down the corporate bond universe from 9,000 available bonds to a list of 52...

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Buy These Four Best Short Term Corporate Bonds
Buy These Four Best Short Term Corporate Bonds
Posted by Steve Shaw updated November 10, 2022

BondSavvy Launches Additional Investment Strategy Focused on Short Term Corporate Bonds.What has been surprising about the 2022 bond bear market is how far many short term investment grade corporate bond prices have fallen.  While...

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Watch Recording of Steve Shaw Presenting on Fidelity Webinar
Watch Recording of Steve Shaw Presenting on Fidelity Webinar
Posted by Steve Shaw updated July 29, 2022

Fidelity Investments has posted a recording of "Bond Buying Opportunities for the Brave," which BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw presented during a May 2022 Fidelity webinar.  Please click the following link to learn how investors...

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Buy These Six Best High Yield Bonds
Buy These Six Best High Yield Bonds
Posted by Steve Shaw updated October 19, 2022

On April 6, 2022, Bondsavvy founder and fixed income expert Steve Shaw presented the best high yield bonds to Bondsavvy subscribers. Some high yield corporate bonds are trading at all-time lows while many issuing-company...

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Rising US Treasury Yields Create Bond Buying Opportunities
Rising US Treasury Yields Create Bond Buying Opportunities
Posted by Steve Shaw updated August 26, 2023

As US Treasury yields have been rising the last several weeks, there are corporate bond buying opportunities we haven't seen in years.  Certain corporate bonds of the world's best companies are now trading between...

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Ten Reasons to Choose Bondsavvy over Stansberry Research
Ten Reasons to Choose Bondsavvy over Stansberry Research
Posted by Steve Shaw updated August 26, 2023

If you want individual corporate bond recommendations that have beaten the most popular corporate bond ETFs 76% of the time and to pay a fee relatively small to the returns historically generated, then Bondsavvy...

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Steve Shaw Presents on Fidelity Bond Webinar
Steve Shaw Presents on Fidelity Bond Webinar
Posted by Steve Shaw updated August 27, 2023

On August 5, 2021, Bondsavvy founder Steve Shaw joined Fidelity Investments' Vice President of Fixed Income Products & Services, Richard Carter, as part of the Fidelity fixed income webinar series.  This was the fourth...

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Learn the Best Corporate Bonds To Invest in
Learn the Best Corporate Bonds To Invest in
Posted by Steve Shaw updated August 28, 2023

BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw, the leading expert on recommending individual corporate bonds to individual investors, presented the best corporate bonds to BondSavvy's investment newsletter subscribers on May 20, 2021.  This fixed income blog post contains summaries...

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How To Profit from Rising Interest Rates
How To Profit from Rising Interest Rates
Posted by Steve Shaw updated August 28, 2023

Bond investors should be embracing rising interest rates rather than running scared.  While rising interest rates may negatively impact certain corporate bonds in the short term, over the long term, rising interest rates can...

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Bondsavvy's Impact on Corporate Bond Trading
Bondsavvy's Impact on Corporate Bond Trading
Posted by Steve Shaw updated August 22, 2024

As Bondsavvy’s subscriber base has grown, so too has the corporate bond trading activity following our investment recommendations. We estimate our subscribers can account for over 90% of customer buy trades in our recommended...

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How Do Bonds Work?
How Do Bonds Work?
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 5, 2022

BondSavvy is dedicated to educating investors.  We want to empower you to understand how corporate bonds work so you can benefit from the strong returns and relative safety individual corporate bonds can provide.  It...

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How We Made a 26% Return with Tiffany Bonds
How We Made a 26% Return with Tiffany Bonds
Posted by Steve Shaw updated February 2, 2024

Much has happened since we recommended Tiffany bonds (Tiffany 4.900% '44, CUSIP 886546AD2) on September 5, 2019.  When we recommended the Tiffany bonds, we saw a company with a strong balance sheet and disciplined...

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A $48,040 Commission for One Bond Trade
A $48,040 Commission for One Bond Trade
Posted by Steve Shaw updated April 22, 2022

The brokerage industry was thrown into a tizzy when Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, and TD Ameritrade recently cut online stock trading commissions to zero. As this played out, executives at many full-service...

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Fidelity Webinar
Fidelity Webinar
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 20, 2022

Individual corporate bonds can achieve strong returns with less risk than stocks, but they are still a very small part of investor portfolios.  In this Fidelity webinar, BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw challenges many long-held...

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Why We're Pouring Ketchup on Bond Ratings
Why We're Pouring Ketchup on Bond Ratings
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 20, 2022

Why do investors follow Moody's and S&P bond ratings when they only tell investors a fraction of what they need to know before making a bond investment? Since corporate bond ratings don't factor in...

Our Perspective 16 min read
When Financial Advisor Fees Exceed Investor Returns
When Financial Advisor Fees Exceed Investor Returns
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 6, 2022

The goal of financial advisors and investment newsletters should be to empower customers to increase their investment returns after all fees paid by investors.  A key component of this is ensuring financial advisor costs...

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Why Bond Ladders Are Broken
Why Bond Ladders Are Broken
Posted by Steve Shaw updated November 6, 2024

Bond ladders have been a popular way to invest in bonds, but they have many drawbacks. This fixed income blog post discusses the key bond ladder disadvantages and why we believe an active investment...

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The Vanguard Bond Fund Road to Nowhere
The Vanguard Bond Fund Road to Nowhere
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 6, 2022

How could a bond fund this bad get to be so big? Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (ticker: VBTLX) is the world's largest bond fund, with $209.5 billion under management as of February...

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Vanguard's Hidden Bond Fund Fees - The Dark Side of John Bogle's Legacy
Vanguard's Hidden Bond Fund Fees - The Dark Side of John Bogle's Legacy
Posted by Steve Shaw updated April 22, 2022

With the death of Vanguard founder John Bogle, the debate continues on his legacy: both good and bad. While few could argue his positive impact on making investing more accessible, what is less known...

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Watch Steve Shaw's Bond Investing Webinar on E*TRADE
Watch Steve Shaw's Bond Investing Webinar on E*TRADE
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 5, 2022

Join BondSavvy Founder Steve Shaw and E*TRADE's Mike Cannizzaro to learn an alternative to traditional hold-to-maturity corporate bond investing that takes advantage of corporate bond market attributes to help increase investment returns.  This investment...

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Steve Shaw Presents to SEC on Corporate Bond Investing for Retail Investors
Steve Shaw Presents to SEC on Corporate Bond Investing for Retail Investors
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 17, 2022

You can now view the webcast of BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw's July 16 presentation to the SEC's Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC). During the presentation, Steve refers to the BondSavvy SEC comment...

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Bondsavvy Submits SEC Comment Letter on US Corporate Bond Market
Bondsavvy Submits SEC Comment Letter on US Corporate Bond Market
Posted by Steve Shaw updated April 5, 2023

     On July 16, 2018, BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw will participate in a panel discussion of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (the "SEC FIMSAC").  The topic...

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Watch Our Active Investing Corporate Bond Webinar with Fidelity Investments
Watch Our Active Investing Corporate Bond Webinar with Fidelity Investments
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 14, 2022

On May 17, BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw sat down with Richard Carter of Fidelity Investments for an exclusive webinar: "The case for a more active approach to bond investing".  Fidelity recently posted a recording...

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Understanding Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk
Understanding Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 5, 2022

This video is one part of BondSavvy's 10-part Corporate Bonds 101 video and helps investors weigh interest rate risk and credit risk when investing in individual corporate bonds.  The full video is included when...

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Is Albertsons' Acquisition of Rite Aid Good for Bondholders?
Is Albertsons' Acquisition of Rite Aid Good for Bondholders?
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 6, 2022

Update Note: On August 8, 2018, Albertsons and Rite Aid announced the termination of their merger agreement. While the below analysis no longer pertains to a combined Albertsons / Rite Aid company, it shows...

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Individual Bonds vs. Bond Funds and ETFs - Which Are Better?
Individual Bonds vs. Bond Funds and ETFs - Which Are Better?
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 13, 2022

Watch this video before investing another dollar into an overvalued bond fund. Many popular bond funds try to replicate 'the market' and since the market is largely bonds priced at a premium to par,...

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Individual Bond Recommendations
Individual Bond Recommendations
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 5, 2022

BondSavvy has just released its new set of corporate bond recommendations.  Individual investors can see them by clicking here.  Financial advisors, family offices, and other corporate bond investors can call our founder Steve Shaw...

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Fixed Income After-Tax Returns: How Corporate Bonds Beat Munis
Fixed Income After-Tax Returns: How Corporate Bonds Beat Munis
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 13, 2022

Many people invest in municipal bonds because they believe munis drive higher after-tax returns than corporate bonds.  This blog post shows this is not always the case. The Punchline If investors buy individual corporate...

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Bondsavvy Talks Corporate Bonds at Nasdaq TradeTalks
Bondsavvy Talks Corporate Bonds at Nasdaq TradeTalks
Posted by Steve Shaw updated April 5, 2023

Watch BondSavvy founder Steve Shaw provide perspective on interest rates, corporate bond investing best practices, and some of the best bonds in his portfolio during his interview with Jill Malandrino at Nasdaq TradeTalks.  ...

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Don't Let the Fed Put You Off Corporate Bond Investing
Don't Let the Fed Put You Off Corporate Bond Investing
Posted by Steve Shaw updated January 14, 2022

Read Antonia Oprita's Real Money column in The Street where I talk about the outlook of Federal Reserve policy and its impact on corporate bond investing.

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Bond Market Pioneer Takes on Wall Street’s Love Affair with Fixed Income Mutual Funds, Launching Bondsavvy
Bond Market Pioneer Takes on Wall Street’s Love Affair with Fixed Income Mutual Funds, Launching Bondsavvy
Posted by Steve Shaw updated April 5, 2023

Platform offers an educational crash course and The Bondcast series to empower people to invest in individual corporate bonds New York, NY — June 28, 2017 — Steve Shaw, the former head of Tradeweb...

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