We recently published our annual “Mind the Gap” study. You can get a quick synopsis of the study’s key takeaways here, but one of the notable findings is that bond-fund investors once again captured a ...

Each of the 10 largest active bond funds beat their category averages in 2025, while six of the 10 largest bond index funds outperformed. PIMCO Total Return Fund and PIMCO Income Fund held the highest ...

TCW MetWest Total Return Bond Fund I-Class fell 3.60% net of fees in the final quarter of 2024 to trail the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index by 54 bps, while the full year return of 1.05% was 20 ...

For an average investor, high-yield bond mutual funds are the best to invest in bonds rated below investment grade, popularly known as junk bonds. This is because these funds hold a wide range of such ...

The $11 trillion in assets manager has shifted its recommended allocations to 70% fixed income. It now has more than $1 trillion in funds committed to bonds. In investing’s age-old active versus ...

Source: PGIM, Bloomberg as of 12/31/2025. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Barron's: PGIM Investments ranked 4 out of 48, 8 out of 47, 12 out of 46 firms for the 1-, 5-, and ...

Intermediate core-plus bond funds can offer investors more income in exchange for taking on more risk than intermediate core funds. These nine funds are the best-in-category options for investors ...

Municipal bonds, or "muni bonds," comprise debt securities that are issued by various states, cities, counties and other governmental entities to raise money to build roads, schools and a host of ...