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[quote=Anonymous]Also, the bond portion of your portfolio is not your moneymaker, it's your hedge, and it should be treated as such. When you invest in long and intermediate term bond funds you are trading predictability for return. This is fine when you are thirty, but by the time you are in your early sixties you should be appropriately invested in short term funds, or have a ladder of individual bonds. Creating a ladder of CDs and bonds is more work than simply investing in funds, but it can be more lucrative and less turbulent. In this case, though, you are forgoing liquidity. None of this applies to the G fund, by the by. Anyone who has scope to sink their whole bond allocation into that puppy is in like Flynn.[/quote]
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