Fixed-income opportunities offer a good alternative to some other investment options, said Dr. Michael Tucker, a finance professor at Fairfield University. “Fixed income has had a pretty good year. Bonds are up more than stocks. The muni market was clobbered, but now it’s yielding 6 percent. Money-market funds are below 1 percent. You might as well keep them under the bed,” Tucker said.

Published in iStockAnalyst, Stamford Advocate, Connecticut Post, Danbury News Times, Greenwich Time on 10/22/09