Potential end of biggest bond bear market ever has some investors considering fixed income for the first time

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More investors are trying to lock in higher yields ahead of likely rate cuts next year from the Federal Reserve.

Kim Forrest has long considered herself a staunch proponent of stocks. Lately, however, she's been giving more thought to a more staid part of markets: fixed income. "You kind of get the math of this and you go, 'Hey, if we think we're at peak interest rates for this cycle, it might be time to buy some bonds,'" said Forrest, founder of Bokeh Capital Partners. "Oddly enough, even though ... God knows I'm an equity girl, I'm thinking bonds.

is unlikely to have rates held near zero as it had over the prior decade. "We don't think that we're gonna go back to the low-interest rate environment that we just came out of. So we don't we don't think that it necessarily has to be a trade off necessarily between stocks and bonds," said Lawrence Gillum, chief fixed income strategist at LPL Financial. "We think both are viable asset classes again.

 

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