corporate bonds

[crappieseeker]

Have any of you invested in corporate bonds and if so who is a good company to deal with? I know they fluctuate but what is a general average return on a 5 thousand bond for one year? Are there any other bond types that are better? What about stocks, are any of you invested in any good stocks worth recommending?

[deathb4disco]

The current rate on a 5-yr AAA corporate bond is 2.14%. So, don't quit your day job.

You can see other current yields here:

https://fixedincome.fidelity.com/ftg...cH6A&gclsrc=ds

I think most people are better off ignoring individual stocks and bonds and just buying very broad index funds. That's what I do.

[LowePro]

Man none of that looks good!

["G"]

Buy land

[LowePro]

I bought some land. And get pummeled in property taxes. The economist have us figured out and right where they want us! Haha I'm laughing...but it ain't that funny

[crappieseeker]

I bought land and could not sell it for a profit and then had to pay taxes and upkeep and then lost several thousand dollars when I sold it.

Buy land

[crappieseeker]

what are the index funds you mentioned?

The current rate on a 5-yr AAA corporate bond is 2.14%. So, don't quit your day job.

You can see other current yields here:

https://fixedincome.fidelity.com/ftg...cH6A&gclsrc=ds

I think most people are better off ignoring individual stocks and bonds and just buying very broad index funds. That's what I do.

[deathb4disco]

what are the index funds you mentioned?

First, I should have said index mutual funds, since that's what they are. They are a type of mutual fund that buys a list (or index) of stocks, bonds, commodities -- almost whatever you want.

The most famous index fund is the Vanguard S&P 500 Index fund. It buys all 500 stocks in the S&P 500 (which includes a lot of very big, well-known companies.)

John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard and a pioneer in index funds, said don't worry about finding a needle in the haystack (that one awesome stock.) Instead, buy the whole haystack.

One index I own is the Vanguard Balanced Index. It owns 60% stocks and 40% bonds. It owns thousands of stocks and thousands of bonds, so you get a lot of diversification. Also, index funds are very cheap -- much cheaper than most mutual funds.

For most people, I think index funds are the best way to invest.

[doggone]

now good grief take this with a grain of salt cause I have very little money and know squat about investing. But I put some money in a 401K with an investment firm under a group of investments considered moderate risk. I had it in there during the recession. I sit it out while the market was down....as soon as it was back up I rolled it into an annuity which is suppose to be lower risk. But anyway by not cashing out when it was down and waiting for it to come back ....I ended up with I think it was around an 18 percent return over five years. A lot of the guys in the high risk stuff lost a lot. And a couple guys got scared and cashed out and lost big.

The truth is we came within a whisker of a full blown depression which may have wiped it all out. Their just electronic files now.Somebody may just hit the big ERASE button one of these days. What you gonna do? Risk in everything.

[deathb4disco]

And a couple guys got scared and cashed out and lost big.

J.P. Morgan once said, "In bear markets, stocks return to their rightful owners."

Sounds like those guys had way too much money in the stock market.