2024-06-11 12:31:52 ET
Summary
- TIPS bonds offer protection against inflation by adjusting principal based on CPI.
- iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF - STIP - provides targeted access to short-term US TIPS market with low fees.
- STIP outperformed vanilla US Treasury bonds with higher returns and lower volatility.
- We tell you why you should own some even today.
Bonds issued by the US Government were quite popular till the end of 2021. Coming off the end of the ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) bubble and a spectacular 4 decade run where interest rates ran just in one direction, it was easy to keep looking in the rearview mirror. But that bubble, predictably, did burst and left most bond fund returns in ashes....
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