The yield curve is frequently spoken about when investors are discussing bonds and wider economics, but what precisely is it?

Now that bonds offer decent yields, investors have been barreling into fixed-income mutual and exchange-traded funds. Taxable bond funds and ETFs pulled in net inflows (the sum of money deposited ...

This article was written by Vikas Jain, Quantitative Researcher at Bloomberg. Traditional fixed income benchmarks may sometimes fall short of providing true bond-like characteristics. The continuous ...