The government promotes safety of principal and has created
certain kinds of bonds with special tax advantages.
Although these payments aren't included in your taxable income, they can affect the taxation of Social Security benefits or, for
certain kinds of bonds, cause you to pay alternative minimum tax (AMT).
Not exact matches
This
kind of progress is often met with resistance, so the fate
of James
Bond is far from
certain.
U.S.
Bond — a
kind of investment in which you lend money to the government for a
certain amount
of time and at a
certain interest rate.
For the safety
of diversification, you can spread your contributions among several different
kinds of investments, such as putting a
certain percentage in stock funds and a
certain percentage in
bond funds.
As
certain kinds of assets (like stocks or
bonds) perform better or worse than others, your target allocation (the percentage mix
of various investments that you've chosen) will get out
of whack.