New 'Bondsavvy Basic' Bond Picks

Build a Higher-Yielding Bond Portfolio with Ease

Since its 2017 founding, Bondsavvy has made 166 corporate bond recommendations. Our 92 exited picks have achieved a 9.16% median annual return, outperforming the iShares LQD/HYG ETFs by 2.79 percentage points.

Subscriber Benefits

Improve potential performance

9.16% median annual return for our 92 previously exited bond picks vs. 6.37% for the iShares LQD/HYG corporate bond ETFs.

Build and update your bond portfolio with ease

Access our existing and new bond recommendations plus quarterly updates.

Save time

We do all the time-intensive investment analysis for you.

Lower your fees

Pay a flat fee that has historically been a small portion of the returns our exited bond picks achieved.

Receive unmatched bond investing expertise

Our founder and president Steve Shaw has 29 years of financial markets experience and is the leading expert for individual investors investing in individual corporate bonds.

Premier Service Tour

Every pick, every update, in two subscription options.

Premier Service
  • ✓66 bonds currently rated buy or hold
  • ✓16-20 new picks per year
  • ✓Investment grade and high yield picks
  • ✓Quarterly buy/sell/hold updates
  • ✓New picks presented June 25
Basic Service
  • ✓10 bonds currently rated buy
  • ✓5-6 new picks per year
  • ✓Investment grade picks only
  • ✓Quarterly buy/sell/hold updates
  • ✓New picks coming June 30

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Who this is for and not for

Subscribe if you:

Want to create a portfolio based on your investment objectives and risk tolerance

Seek the high income, principal protection, and capital appreciation opportunities individual corporate bonds can provide

Prefer paying a flat fee, so, the more you invest in corporate bonds, the lower fee per dollar invested you pay

Maintain a self-directed brokerage or retirement account at Fidelity.com, Schwab, E*TRADE, and/or Interactive Brokers

Don’t have 20+ hours per week to evaluate and monitor bond investments

Are a bond newbie, expert, or anywhere in between

Do NOT subscribe if you:

Prefer achieving “average” returns

Prefer a bond portfolio that is the same thing everyone else has

Don’t want control and final authority over your bond investments

Want to minimize total return opportunities

Don’t maintain a self-directed brokerage account

Prefer to pay a % of AUM rather than a flat fee

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Corporate Bond Recommendations & Updates from 29-Year Financial Analyst

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  Premier Basic
48 current bond picks
Current bond recommendations
39 rated BUY, 27 rated HOLD 10 rated BUY
4-6 new bond picks each quarter via webcast
New picks per year
16-20 5 to 6
Investment grade and high yield picks
Investment grade only
Ask questions through 'Bondsavvy Forum'
Regular updates, including quarterly webcasts
Two Years
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$425
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One Year
 $825
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Quarterly Quarterly Premier not available to recent Premier subscribers
$275 /quarter
+ $75 joining fee
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+ $50 joining fee
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FAQs

Steve Shaw founded Bondsavvy on April 28, 2017 to empower individual investors to benefit from the income, growth, and capital preservation individual corporate bonds can provide. The company launched its website in June 2017 and made its first set of corporate bond recommendations during an in-person edition of The Bondcast on September 26, 2017.

We founded Bondsavvy to make bond investing simple and more profitable for individual investors. Our subscription includes quarterly new corporate bond recommendations and updates, which we present on exclusive subscriber webinars. We supplement these webinars with email updates, including for bond tender offers and material events at our issuing companies.

Upon subscribing, you gain access to Bondsavvy's current buy/hold bond recommendations. The number of recommendations is based on whether you are a Premier or Basic subscriber. When you log into your account, you will see a list of our currently recommended bonds, including key pricing and financial metrics. You will also see the presentations that review the financial and investment analysis behind each recommendation.

Please click for a visual of our subscriber dashboard.

Making sure our subscribers completely understand our recommendations and bond market conditions is crucial, so we offer Bondsavvy Forum, where subscribers can submit questions to our founder Steve Shaw.

Before Bondsavvy, bond investors had two unappealing choices: 1) sift through thousands of individual corporate bonds and rely on bond ratings and 2) invest in bond funds that often have weak returns and lack three key elements of fixed income investments: a fixed coupon, a maturity date, and a price relative to par value. Bondsavvy empowers subscribers to make direct investments in bonds, which reduces costs, increases transparency, and enables investors to maximize returns. Our bond recommendations take the guesswork out of bond investing and save time, as subscribers access thoroughly researched bond recommendations they can add to their portfolios.

We present new bond investment recommendations during quarterly editions of The Bondcast, a live subscriber-only webcast that includes subscriber Q&A. We host The Bondcast quarterly, shortly after companies complete reporting quarterly financials. During each edition of The Bondcast, we review the rationale for each corporate bond investment, as well as the prices, YTMs, credit spreads, and liquidity for each recommended corporate bond. We also review key financial information of the companies issuing our recommended bonds. To learn more about The Bondcast and our investment process, please click on the following links:

View Sample Edition of The Bondcast

Learn Bondsavvy's key investment considerations

We record each edition of The Bondcast and then post the webcast recording and PDF of the presentation in the subscriber area of Bondsavvy. We update our recommendations throughout the year, including during quarterly editions of The Super Bondcast, where we update buy/sell/hold recommendations for each previously recommended corporate bond. We supplement our webcasts with an emailed investment newsletter that provides additional recommendation updates and notifications of upcoming subscriber events.

Our goal with each new corporate bond recommendation is that our subscribers can buy or sell the bonds as close to the recommended price as possible. We have taken several actions to limit the market impact of new bond recommendations, which have been successful.

In fixed income, market impact is not a concept limited to investors buying individual bonds. Large institutional investors grapple with this issue every day. The challenge is that, due to the lack of transparency of bond funds vs. individual bonds, bond fund investors don't know the magnitude of the market impact caused by bond funds buying and selling securities since these investors only see that fund's net asset value per share. Investors in individual corporate bonds know the exact price at which they buy and sell each bond.

We update our bond recommendations each quarter, so a current bond recommendation originally recommended some time ago has just as much conviction as a brand-new recommendation. Given the value of our bond recommendations list, we do not offer free trials. Click "Samples" on the main menu for a sample of a previous bond recommendation presentation.

We recommend both investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds for our Premier service. Our Basic service only includes investment grade corporate bonds. We look for bonds with compelling values that can increase in price and achieve strong total returns. In Bondsavvy Premier, often times, we find bonds rated below investment grade by the bond rating agencies that, based on their financials, should be rated investment grade. Such bonds often present compelling risk-reward investment opportunities.

Steve Shaw founded Bondsavvy to empower individual investors to benefit from the income, safety, and potential capital growth individual corporate bonds can provide. We want individual investors to know everything the world's largest institutional investors know about bond investing. We created Bondsavvy Forum so subscribers could ask questions specific to our recommendations or to bond investing in general. Subscribers submit questions to Bondsavvy Forum, which Steve answers so all Bondsavvy subscribers can see answers to questions posed by our subscribers.

No. Bondsavvy provides investment recommendations our subscribers use to decide which bonds to buy and when to sell bonds we previously recommended. We do not hold customer assets and our recommendations do not take into account an investor’s particular investment objectives, financial situation, or needs.

Bondsavvy subscribers transact through their own brokerage firm such as Fidelity, E*TRADE, Schwab, Interactive Brokers, and others. We encourage our subscribers to buy and sell bonds online.

Why Use Bondsavvy to Invest in Bonds

Premier Picks at a Glance

Since our first recommendations in September 2017, Bondsavvy has recommended over 150 individual corporate bonds for its Premier service. Through March 31, 2026, we had recommended “sells” on 89 previously recommended bonds. Below, we preview the 63 bonds we rated “buy” or “hold" on March 31, 2026 for our Premier service.

Summary of Bondsavvy's Corporate Bond Recommendations

Bond Rating

High Yield
(22)
Investment Grade
(41)
YTM Ranges
<5.00%
(3)
5.01% to 5.50%
(19)
5.51% to 6.25%
(25)
6.26% to 9.00%
(14)
>9.00%
(2)
Maturity Date Ranges
2026-2028
(3)
2029-2032
(11)
2033-2039
(23)
2040-2050
(12)
2051+
(14)

YTM figures are from Fidelity.com and FINRA TRACE market data and are as of March 30, 2026.

Financial Advisors

Bondsavvy equips financial advisors to:

  • Differentiate their practices with unparalleled bond investing expertise they can use to benefit their clients
  • Improve client performance through a select portfolio of individual corporate bonds
  • Better understand the US economy and fixed income markets based on our bond recommendation webcasts
  • Regularly engage clients on new bond investing opportunities and market dynamics
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How we charge

We charge based on the advisor’s size and number of people at the firm who would be accessing our service. Click the above orange button to set up a call with Bondsavvy founder Steve Shaw to discuss how we can work together for the benefit of your clients.

I founded Bondsavvy to make bond investing simple and more profitable for individual investors. We cut through the clutter and market noise to recommend individual corporate bonds that can outperform bond funds and ETFs over the long term.

Money market yields have fallen to the low 4s, and the paltry 1.28% S&P 500 dividend yield is near 24-year lows. As of May 15, 2025, Bondsavvy’s 61 bond recommendations had a median YTM of 5.75%, and 20 buy/hold picks had YTMs of at least 6.20%.

With the fixed coupons of corporate bonds, investors can lock in today's higher yields for the long term, something that is not possible with bond funds, ETFs, and dividend stocks.

Let’s get Bondsavvy!

Steve Shaw
Steve Shaw Founder & President

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