The Canadian Bond Market and Principles of Bond Investing
Fixed income investments can be a great way to provide a floor for you investment portfolio and to preserve your capital. One popular way of investing in fixed income is through the bond market. The size of the bond market in Canada as of December 2014 was $2.4 trillion (face value) and to give some perspective the size of the TSX at that time was $2.511 trillion (market cap). Though the bond market is very substantial it doesn’t get nearly as much press as the stock marke