Here's a roundup of five common examples. The 60/40 portfolio allocates 60% of an investor’s assets to stocks and 40% to bonds. This balanced approach aims to provide a mix of growth and ...

For investors, learning how to create a successful bond portfolio starts with learning some simple allocation methods. The advantages of doing so can be immediate, such as avoiding the high ...

By focusing on fees, taxes and long-term goals, investors can position themselves to weather uncertainty while taking ...

Bond ETFs can have broad or targeted portfolios. A broad portfolio might hold a representative sample of bonds by various issuer types, maturities, and credit qualities. A targeted portfolio might ...

Investors can also construct their own portfolios by identifying stocks, bonds and other assets that align with their objectives. A critical component of any investment portfolio is diversification.

Include fixed-income assets like bonds to lower volatility and reduce risk in your portfolio. Add real estate through REITs to potentially increase returns and further reduce portfolio volatility.

Permanent Portfolio Versatile Bond Port earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The most important driver of the rating is the parent firm's five-year risk-adjusted success ratio of 90%.

Finally, the last table (I promise!) contains durations for some basic bond mutual funds and a sample portfolio weighting. The foreign bond fund has the longest duration, and the Short TIPS fund ...

In order to get adequate diversification, it's a good idea to spread the bond portion of your portfolio among various Treasury bonds, high-grade corporate bonds and, if you're in a high tax ...