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TIPS are issued via government run auctions in maturities of five, 10 and 20 years. When the TIPS bond reaches maturity, the inflation-adjusted principal is returned to investors. If deflation were...
It's not so easy to answer that question now. The performance of TIPS is a function of two main variables, and neither one today is saying that TIPS are screamingly cheap, as they were back in...
Bond investors are itching for higher yields but don't want to sacrifice safety. For those willing to take a little more risk, there are some attractive choices.
Yales's David Swensen, the best performing university portofolio manager over the last 20 years recommends TIPS as a way to hedge against potential inflation caused by the government's economic...
Building a simple portfolio based on index funds is, well, simple. But the writers at Kiplinger thought it would be interesting to ask some of the champions of easy, low-cost investing to suggest...
Financial planners cite few principles as often as the “4% rule.� It maintains that investors can safely withdraw 4% from a retiree's balanced stock/bond portfolio in the first year, and then...
Pacific Management Investment Co. (PIMCO, as well as investors Warren Buffet and Marc Faber say that inflation is coming. Increased inflation doesn't bode well for savers and Treasury holders.
Inflation-protected bonds offer almost all of the advantages -- and almost none of the disadvantages -- of regular Treasury securities. Look for their prices to pop, perhaps soon.
Bill Gross of Pimco and many other anlaysts are saying that Treasury Inflated Protected Securities (TIPS) are very cheap and offer a good investment as the government's stimulus program begins to...
How much would you have to save if you decided to take zero market risk and invest solely in TIPS? Post has a good discussion of this along with an online spreadsheet.