Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

— -- Q: When stocks drop, does the value of bonds increase and vice versa? A: Bonds issued by the U.S. government and stocks have a teeter-totter relationship: When one goes up, the other tends ...

REITs deliver a bond-like income stream via steady dividend income. They also produce equity-like returns as their share prices rise. REITs can outperform bonds without increasing your portfolio's ...

Why we should sing the praises of the tried-and-true 60/40 stocks-bonds portfolio.

The classic 60-40 market portfolio — with 60% in stocks and 40% in bonds — has come under serious scrutiny in recent years, with major changes in the bond market leading to fundamental questions about ...

Investors are exuberant not just in the stock market, but in the gold and bond markets as well. That has hardly ever happened before, and it doesn't bode well for any of these asset classes. Consider ...

For a certain breed of cautious investor, Vanguard suggests a tweak to the time-honored principle of investing. Call it the 40/60 rule. The 60/40 rule suggests that investors park 60% of their money ...

U.S. colleges and universities would, collectively, be $468 billion richer today if they had fired their investment managers 20 years ago and instead invested their endowments in low-cost index funds.