Bonds or fixed income really have two purposes for the US individual investor: income and stability. Some will disagree with me. They would say that you might want to own bonds for appreciation. However, In order to achieve appreciation, you must have institutional investor scale. In my view this is requires probably $100 million in […]
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Bond Investing When we are selecting bonds for our portfolios, we have a range of factors we evaluate: Our first check is the price. As mentioned above, we will almost always buy bonds at or below their maturity or call price. There are two reasons for this. One is perception, the other reality. Dealing with
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Our version of buying bonds for income and stability is best demonstrated using the example of the Required Minimum Distribution. It is broadly known that at now 73—a few years ago it changed from 70 1⁄2 to 73—with very few exceptions investors must begin taking money out of their IRAs. It is sometimes a surprise
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All throughout my career I have heard the mantra of “laddering portfolios.” Laddering maturities means to buy a series of bonds over time so that regardless of whether interest do, there will soon be a bond maturing and one can reinvest the proceeds at the new interest rates. This is cowardly. This also provides the investor with
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