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<title><![CDATA[Re: bond investing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you believe the market has more down to go, this is about as safe as you can get but it only pays 2.5% interest.
So I moved into VFICX (Vanguard intermediate-term corporate bond) which is riskier but pays close to 6%.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[bond investing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I don't know much about bond funds. Is now, with the market down, the right time to buy into a bond fund like Vanguard Short-Term Treasury?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Why buy this fund?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[However, TIPS in a MF or ETF could result in losses.   Buy the actual TIPs at issuance or under 100 and you cannot lose.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
<author><![CDATA[tryingtogetthefacts]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Why buy this fund?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Low correlation with equities market.   Check out a chart of S&P 500 vs. VFISX during the last two market crashes (including the current one). Investors take a "flight to safety" when it hits the fan.   This fund is the safest of the safe- short duration = low interest rate sensitivity and low volatility (risk, as measured by standard deviation, very low with this one).   This is what we call "bubble protection"-- use this as a part of your portfolio to make it more efficient (100% equities isn't efficient, beyond a certain percentage of one asset class you are not rewarded as well with additional exposure to it, even if it does perform better historically--check out "Efficient Frontier" on Investopedia.com)-- if you were to include this fund in an equity-heavy portfolio (which you should have if you're a long-term investor), as you rebalance you will prevent yourself from riding the equities bubbles all the way up-- and all the way down. Thus, you could lower your portfolio's overall standard deviation (risk) and actually increase your returns (you take money off the table automatically when equities are on a roll).   Combine this fund with TIPS (Vanguard's VIPSX) and you have a rock-solid fixed-income portion of your portfolio with zero default risk.   These two asset classes actually have low correlation to each other as well (some argue TIPS are an asset class of their own and not bonds). Additionally, you want to take risk in your equities and maintain safety in your fixed income-- this is because risk is rewarded more efficiently in equities and not so efficiently in fixed income (a lot more risk = only slightly more return in fixed income). Not to mention the duration is solid: <a href="http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/997/maturity.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.efficientfrontier.com/ef/997/maturity.htm</a>   Dollar-cost average into this fund as well as your equities, rebalance annually. I recommend 10% minimum VFISX, depending on your age.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Re: Why buy this fund?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Not in a period of deflation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:19:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why buy this fund?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Why buy this fund?   Wouldn't it be better to buy TIPS fund?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:00:04 GMT</pubDate>
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