How to Buy Bonds: 3 Options You Should Consider
Investors often focus most of their attention on how to buy stocks, because the stock market has produced such strong returns over the long run. Yet bonds can provide valuable benefits for investors, including portfolio diversification and a way to put money to work for shorter periods of time than would be prudent for a stock-market investment.
Many investors have difficulty with bond investing because the process of buying bonds can be different from what stock investors are used to seeing. Bonds also come with different maturities, interest rates and yields, and levels of risk, and getting information on individual bonds isn't always as easy as it should be.
In general, there are three ways you can buy bonds:
Source: Fool.com
