Mechanics of Buying & Selling 5-Yr TIPS With the preface, that I am a novice at TIPs, having thought them overpriced for so many years. --- so please pardon the following questions... I am dipping my toe in them now (via ETFs), since the general sell-off in bonds.
1.What is the rationale to buy individual TIPs vs an ETF. -- And especially VTIP, which holds short-term TIPs? any reason other than one has a finite duration instrument when buying the bond directly?
2. As I look at Fidelity's list of 2ndary-market TIPs, it appears shorter-term TIPs are still priced high with negative real-yields, while longer-term TIPs do have a modest (meager) posiitve real-yield. -- So why not go for longer-duration, especially, since the inflation-adjustment feature should serve as a mitigant to the longer duration?
3. More generally, as regards constructing the Treasury sleeve of one's portfolio, mightn't it make sense to populate the longer-duration portion of one's holdings with TIPs, rather than nominal bonds? --This would serve to protect one's buying power in the "outer years". And because TIPs are still risk-free (i.e. issued by Uncle Sam), they still seem to benefit from a flight to quality during risk-off periods. - I guess my point is if one is going to own ANY longer-duration Treasurys here, wouldn't TIPs have the edge over nominal bonds?
Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts/comments on the above.
M* Interactive Charting AWOL?
EV’s & Where to Invest for the next 10 years LEV single stock. Lion Electric. Saint-Jerome, Quebec, northwest of Montreal. Still operates at a loss. Electric vehicles, but not so much for individual retail consumers.
At Barron's website, it gets 4
buys,
1 overweight, 4
holds by analysts. Will it EVER make a profit? It's a penny-stock, still--- at $5.34 USD.
12 months: DOWN -74.65%. Bargain, or trap?
https://thelionelectric.com/en
EV’s & Where to Invest for the next 10 years Look at REMX and GEMT
Focused on rare earths needed for a lot of technology ( and basically owned by China) and "green metals needed in EVs
LIT has been around since 2010 and is more liquid and more transparent than EVMT
Only 3% TSLA. A good thing, if you believe, as I do, that TSLA is controlled by a sociopath.
Mechanics of Buying & Selling 5-Yr TIPS
OIL
EPD
EPD What is negative with EPD? Something to do with the fund?
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EPD the stock is a limited partnership with energy holdings and it is positive for the year.
- Since your question refers to
“fund”, most likely you mean
EPDIX, the mutual fund, which invests in European dividend paying stocks …
The second is up about 8% this year, but fell about
1% Friday. Since the fund owns dividend paying
stocks a
1% drop for one day is entirely normal. Unlike income paying
bonds, or
mixed allocation funds, dividend paying
stocks are normally riskier and more volatile.
@ron - Members are here to help you if you need some direction. It all depends on your age, purpose in investing and your willingness / ability to accept potential losses over shorter periods in pursuit of potentially greater longer term gains.
OIL Nat Gas 3/15/21 = $4.57, now $8.96. Waiting winter storage season.
Changes (Finally) Coming to Taxable SS Calc? That page is not substantially different from the 2020 report where the Section H options were likewise numbered H2-H7, and generally the only difference was that the years for implementation were one year sooner. See p. 3
1 (pdf p. 32):
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/solvency/provisions_tr2020/summary.pdfAs I wrote above, nothing new to see here, move along. Just the same "news" pieces trotted out as though they were reporting on new proposals.
I suspect that if you go back year by year, you'll see very little different in the proposals aside from the dates. Here's where you can find earlier years:
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/solvency/provisions/
