If you haven’t noticed, bond interest rates have been inching up over the past year. The U.S. Treasury 10-year index hit a 52-week high of 2.83% on Friday, up 1.29%, or 84%, from the 52-week low of 1.54% on Aug. 31, 2012. Given the fact that market prices of bonds move inversely with interest rate […] The post Fixed-index annuities as bonds alternative? appeared first on Retirement Income Center.