Episode description
Episode description
Professional investors and other market participants are lousy at forecasting interest rates. Here are three more options to lock in higher yields today.
Topics covered include:
- The risk of buying long-term bonds and ETFs to benefit from falling yields
- How volatility drag has impacted a long-term bond ETF like TLT
- Why interest rates won't go up just because the government issues more bonds
- How CDs, fixed annuities, and zero-coupon bonds work
- We compare and contrast the seven fixed-income options reviewed in this two-part series
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Show Notes
Investors may be getting the Federal Reserve wrong, again—The Economist
Today's Best Multi-Year Guaranteed Annuities—Immediate Annuities
Zero-Coupon Treasuries Flew Off Shelves During October Yield Surge by Elizabeth Stanton—Bloomberg
Investments Mentioned
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)
Invesco BulletShares 2029 Corporate Bond ETF (BSCT)
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418: Bond Investing Masterclass
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