Junk bonds | What are they, and are they worth the risk?

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Few terms in investing are as misleading as junk bonds. The name suggests something worthless, but the reality is a multi-trillion-dollar asset class that pension funds, insurance companies, and institutional investors have held for decades. These are corporate bonds issued by companies with lower credit ratings, ones that pay higher coupon rates because they have […]