Discover how to build a CD ladder to strategically enhance liquidity and maximize interest. A step-by-step guide for balanced investing with certificates of deposit.

A bond ladder is an investment strategy that involves purchasing multiple bonds that mature at different times. The ladder analogy is an apt visual tool to describe how bond ladders work: Each rung of ...

Building a CD ladder involves buying multiple CDs that mature at different times. For example, you might buy a 1-year CD, 2-year CD, 3-year CD, 4-year CD, and a 5-year CD. Or you might buy a 3-month ...

Not long ago, investors had to pay the U.S. government for the privilege of owning Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities. The real yields, that is the yields after factoring in inflation, were ...

The individual bond ladder I created last year beat corporate bond ETFs on total return. Keeping average maturity around 5 years, targeting slightly lower credit quality in the BBB range, and buying ...

Bonds are becoming a more attractive investment option as their yields are now competitive with stock earnings yields. A bond ladder can provide higher income, no management fees, and more certainty ...