Take Control of Your Bond Investments

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.

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:

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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.