Are These Ticking Time Bombs In Your Portfolio?
by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street
I have on occasion warned about bond funds. Bonds themselves can be a great investment – and have largely been a great investment over the last 30 years, running up all the way to the peak of the greatest credit bubble in history.
If the bond market starts throwing up, you can always hang on to your bonds, collect the interest, and get out alive. If the company gets knocked over and it “restructures,” stock holders get wiped out, but depending on what kind of bond you hold, you could be made whole, lose part of your capital, or get wiped out too.
The yield is supposed to compensate for these and other risks, though it hasn’t in years, thanks to the Fed’s interest rate repression.
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Source: http://financialsurvivalnetwork.com/2015/05/are-these-ticking-time-bombs-in-your-portfolio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-these-ticking-time-bombs-in-your-portfolio
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