A fixed income investment is open to everyone. All you have to do is find a regulated and trusted fixed-income investment.

A fixed income investment has the following advantages;

• A fixed income investment provides a steady income stream for its investors while waiting for its maturity.
• Fixed income investments are relatively less volatile than other types of investments, which makes it a safer choice.

The following are the main risks of a fixed income investment;

• Fixed income investments are somewhat susceptible to inflation. If the investment takes a long time to mature and inflation is high, it eats into the gains of fixed-income securities.
• Fixed interest rates payouts might also mean that the investors might lose out in the long run. For example, let’s say an investor buys a 5-year bond at a 2.5% fixed interest rate. If the 5-year bond’s interest rate climbs up to 5%, the investor is locked in at 2.5%, which means that he is losing out on potential dividends.
   

Some of the types of fixed income investment are government bonds, corporate bonds, and sukuk.