A safer way to invest in foreign bonds

(MONEY Magazine) -- Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign fixed-income fund dwarfs the yield on U.S. bonds by about 1½ percentage points.

Asia 1.25 Billion Over 60 by 2050 Shows Why Bonds Beat Stocks

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- With Asia’s elderly population poised to double within four decades, more money is being plowed into preserving wealth than enhancing growth, driving up demand for the region’s bonds that are beating returns on stocks.