You CAN Lose With Bonds

Bonds
Why Bond Prices Go Up and Down
Since the late 1970s, changes in the interest rate environment have become the greatest single determinant of bond returns, and managing interest rate risk has become the most critical variable in the management of bond portfolios.

Bonds
How Credit Ratings Affect Bond Valuations
Since the late 1970s, changes in the interest rate environment have become the greatest single determinant of bond returns, and managing interest rate risk has become the most critical variable in the management of bond portfolios.

Bonds
You CAN Lose With Bonds
Many investors put money in bonds to receive interest income and assume their original investment - their principal - will not change in value. However, this assumption is wrong! What you can do to protect your money.

Stocks
What Steps You Should Take When Your Stock's Price Falls
There are no simple rules that will tell you when to sell a stock, but an in-depth understanding of what economic, industry, and firm fundamentals drive the price will better equip you for making decisions.

Features
Bond Investing Basics: Why Bond Prices Go Up and Down
Bonds: Since the late 1970s, changes in the interest rate environment have become the greatest single determinant of bond returns, and managing interest rate risk has become the most critical variable in the management of bond portfolios.

Features
How to Benefit From Reduced Capital Gains Rates
Tax Strategies: The Tax Relief Act of 1997 established lower capital gains tax rates for assets held for more than five years and sold sometime after 2000. Special election rules also allow individual to reset a stock's acquisition date to Jan. 2, 2001.

Features
When Markets Turn Bad the Basics Remain Fundamental
Feature: The year 2001 has been an example of the need for diversification across styles as well as industries. And the entire bear market should emphasize the need for a long-term commitment.

Features
U.S. Government Bond Funds: A Portfolio Counterweight
Mutual Funds: As a relatively low risk, understandable and steady counterweight for your stock portfolio, U.S. government bond funds are hard to beat if you do not want to buy the bonds directly and manage them yourself.

Features
What Steps You Should Take When Your Stock's Price Falls
Stock Selection Strategies: There are no simple rules that will tell you when to sell a stock, but an in-depth understanding of what economic, industry, and firm fundamentals drive the price will better equip you for making decisions.

Features
An Interview With Matthew B. Fahey, Portfolio Manager, Marshall Mid-Cap Value Fund
Feature: A bottom-up value approach looks for mid-cap stocks that can make the grade.

Features
Variable Life Insurance Policies and Stock Market Volatility
Insurance Products: The life insurance industry has treated variable life as just a better-performing version of whole life and universal life without realizing that inherent investment volatility makes variable life a very different kind of life insurance.

Departments
AAII Journal 2001 Index of Articles
An index of all articles appearing in the AAII Journal during 2001.

Stock Strategies
What Steps You Should Take When Your Stock's Price Falls
There are no simple rules that will tell you when to sell a stock, but an in-depth understanding of what economic, industry, and firm fundamentals drive the price will better equip you for making decisions.