Depending on an intester's trading outlook (eg age to retirement), investment advisors suggest various ratios of bonds to stocks. But bonds are harder to buy than stocks and bond mutual funds can have high expense ratios. In my view the easier way to buy bonds is with an
Exchange Traded Fund. Several below are highlighted:
The
above Yahoo Finance chart illustrates the relative stability of AGG and BND against IBM, the DOW and the S&P 500 over the last year. Bond investing is not "exciting" investing but it is very conservative. Yahoo Finance provides the Morningstar profile for each. Helpful for investers:
MacroWorld is another helpful site that provides charting and reporting. The example below is the Sector Allocation for BND:
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