Margaret Giles: Hi. I’m Margaret Giles with Morningstar. Who needs bonds? What bond types are the best to own, and which are best left out of your portfolio altogether? Joining me to discuss those ...

Diversification involves spreading your money across a variety of investments and asset classes. A diversified portfolio helps to reduce risk and may lead to a higher return. Investments that move in ...

With continued policy uncertainty, bond markets present attractive yields and important diversification benefits. Growing concerns about the impact of proposed tariff policies on the U.S. economy have ...

In addition to better risk-adjusted returns, diversified portfolios enjoy lower drawdown risk and enhance the potency of portfolio management strategies such as ...

Emerging markets equities can offer outsized potential and portfolio diversification benefits to investors for three reasons. First, emerging markets tend to exhibit a substantial demographic ...

A new study considered just such a question. The research showed that luxury watches — particularly Rolex, Patek Philippe and Audemars Piguet — "yield significant diversification benefits when being ...

URTH is overly concentrated in US equities, offering little true international diversification and closely mirroring S&P 500 performance at lower volatility. A simple 70% SPY + 30% cash or risk-free ...

Mansoor Mohi-uddin, head of FX strategy at UBS, says the dollar’s weakness during the past decade was due to the three largest holders of dollars globally – US fund managers, foreign central banks and ...