At The Money: Building A Bond Ladder
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The past decade, or maybe even longer. No one's accurately predicted which way rates were going. Are they gonna rise, are they gonna fall, are they gonna stay steady? This creates a challenge for bond investors who are usually looking For a predictable income stream
From their fixed income holdings. One solution Create a ladder of bonds of different maturity rates so that regardless of what occurs You have a predictable yield series. You can lock in higher yielding paper if rates fall, but you also free up more capital on an annual basis.
If rates rise. I'm Barry Rid Holtz and on today's edition of At the Money We're going to show you how to create a bond ladder. To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your fixed income portfolio, let's bring in Karen Vera. She is head of iShare's US fixed income strategy for investing giant BlackRock. So let's start simply
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