About This Site
About This Site
Geared toward many types of investors--from beginners to experienced equity investors who are new to bonds to sophisticated bond investors--Investinginbonds.com is a unique source of bond price information and includes a wide variety of market data, news, commentary and information about bonds. The site has been ranked as a top investor site for bonds by Money, CNBC, Forbes and others and is continually enhanced and updated with new data, information and features.
The Investinginbonds.com site was created by The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association to help educate investors. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association(SIFMA) represents the industry which powers the global economy. Born of the merger between The Securities Industry Association and The Bond Market Association, SIFMA is the single powerful voice for strengthening markets and supporting investors -- the world over. The Foundation for Investor Education (FIE), SIFMA Foundation For Investor Education, and the New York District Economic Education Foundation, merged to form the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation for Investor Education (SIFMA Foundation).
Our dynamic, new organization is passionately dedicated to representing more than 650 member firms of all sizes, in all financial markets in the U.S. and around the world. We are committed to enhancing the public’s trust and confidence in the markets, delivering an efficient, enhanced member network of access and forward-looking services, as well as premiere educational resources for the professionals in our industry and the investors whom they serve.
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association wishes to specially thank Bond Desk/TIPS; Euclid Financial Group; Goldman Sachs; GovPx, Inc; JPMorgan; JPMorgan Securities; Lehman Brothers; Market Axess; Merrill Lynch; MSRB; MMA Municipal Market Advisors; Ms. Dee Lee, certified financial planner/SIFMA Foundation For Investor Education partner; Nomura Securities International; Reuters; Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; Standard & Poor’s; Thomson Financial; and The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation for Investor Education for donations of content and market data; permission to incorporate calculators, price and market data or other content; and the advice and counsel of staff professionals regarding the initial research and site design and some of the content.
About Our Partnership
SIFMA is a non-profit industry association that represents the shared interests of participants in the global financial markets. SIFMA members include international securities firms, U.S.-registered broker-dealers, and asset managers. The Association represents the industry on regulatory and legislative issues and initiatives, and also serves as a forum for outreach, training, education, and community involvement. Member participation is the very core of who we are and the key to our effectiveness.
SIFMA has offices in
New York , Washington , London , and Hong Kong , where our sister organization, the Asia Securities and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA), is located. www.InvestinginbondsEurope.org is the sister site to www.Investinginbonds.com offering retail investors free access to comprehensive, non-commercial and unbiased education providing fixed income market information in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish in a pan-European context.
Current priorities of SIFMA include rebuilding the public’s trust and confidence in the financial markets, addressing financial regulatory reform issues andproviding premiere educational resources for investors and the professionals in our industry who serve them. The Investinginbondseurope.org initiative is an important example of our commitment.
Our Donor-Partners
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and The SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education wish to recognize and specially thank the donor-partners who are contributing bond indices; economic and other important indicators; market commentary and educational content to www.Investinginbonds.com.
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The Foundation for Investor Education (FIE), The Bond Market Foundation (TBMF), and the New York District Economic Education Foundation, recently merged to form the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Foundation for Investor Education (SIFMA Foundation). Current Foundation programs include:
- The www.Investinginbonds.com and the Investinginbondseurope.org partnerships
- The Tomorrowsmoney.org Web-based Program – five adult financial literacy skill-building websites -- Tomorrowsmoney.org site for women; Tomorrowsmoney.org site for young adults just starting out; www.unwantedchange.org for people experiencing the financial impact of unwanted life changes; and our sites for Spanish speakers, www.ahorrando.org and www.cambiosinesperados.org
- State Treasurers Gateway Initiative Partnership and Network – A partnership with the US National Association of State Treasurers Foundation, and its more than 40 state treasurers, providing adult state-based financial literacy education through Web sites, e-newsletters, publications and seminars.
- Path to Investing – An US investor education web site about investing, containing non-commercial, unbiased information for making financial decisions, financial planning, preparing for retirement, protecting investors and understanding how the financial markets work.
The Stock Market Game – A curriculum-based program where student teams in grades 4-12 learn long-term saving and investing fundamentals with a hypothetical brokerage account. The program serves 20,000 teachers and 700,000 students annually. Teachers receive grade-level specific curriculum guides, lesson plans and newsletters to incorporate the program into their core mathematics
Terms & Conditions of Use
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