This article's mission is clear: to alert some investors to something that the masses of investing gurus and salespeople don't put in front of them. It's a mad, mad, mad world of constant information ...

You may be familiar with bonds, but bond funds are a different way to invest in them. A bond fund is a professionally managed pool of bonds — held inside an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or mutual fund — ...

You're over 50 and still working. Or you're over 50 and you're retired. And either way you've got a large chunk of your investment portfolio in bonds, particularly U.S. Treasury bonds, because that's ...