Buy normal bonds when the inflation expectations of RRbonds are higher than your personal expectations.
Not exact matches
Though the Fed is moving towards a more
normal interest rate policy with a taper of stimulative
bond buying, the nation has been enveloped in what is affectionately known as ZIRP (Zero interest rate policy) for many years now.
So you are saying that LS20 is bad to hold outside a tax wrapper, because the entire dividend is taxed at
normal income tax rates (20/40/45), whereas
buying a 4:1 mix of a pure
bond fund and pure equity fund should save some tax, because the div from the equity fund is taxed at dividend tax rates (7.5 / 32.5 / 37.5) and it benefits from a # 5k allowance (reducing to # 2k, next year)?
So ideally, the Fed's stimulus could get the economy back to a
normal rate of growth before inflation becomes a problem, at which point the Fed could taper off its
bond buying little by little and gracefully exit the picture.
Once you decide to
buy debt, then choose between RRbonds and
normal bonds.
In order to bring your total allocation in these two asset classes back up to
normal, you would take $ 2,500 and
buy more of the Generic
Bond's mutual fund, and also add $ 2,500 to the Small - Cap mutual fund.