He recommends
constructing bond ladders.
Today I want to talk through an example of how to
construct a bond ladder and what it might look like.
Investors could also
construct a bond ladder to increase diversification and mitigate credit risk by purchasing bonds with different interest rates and maturity dates.
How have maturity series indices and ETFs enabled your ability to
construct bond ladders?
You can either buy a 5 - year bond or GIC whose maturity date matches your time frame or you could
construct a bond ladder.
Not exact matches
I am attracted by the idea of
constructing a linker
ladder with individual
bonds, but every time I try and research how to actually do it, I seem to get lost in a forest of complex advice, rules and processes.
A
laddered preferred portfolio uses the same concept as
bond laddering, where a portfolio is
constructed with instruments of staggering maturities so that a fixed portion of the portfolio matures each year.
You can strike a happy medium by
constructing a
bond or GIC «
ladder,» says Hank Cunningham, fixed income strategist at Odlum Brown Ltd. and author of In Your Best Interest.
The portfolio will be
constructed with a
ladder of individual - year - targeted («bullet»), low - cost, highly diversified ETFs, each of which holds positions in hundreds of individual
bonds.
When the first
bond matures in 2 years, you reinvest the money in a
bond with a 10 - year maturity, maintaining the
ladder you've
constructed.
A couple of points to note: despite the name, the Claymore
Laddered Bond ETFs are not quite the same as a bond ladder an investor could construct herself because unlike a ladder, the investor has no control over reinvesting maturing bonds in the
Bond ETFs are not quite the same as a
bond ladder an investor could construct herself because unlike a ladder, the investor has no control over reinvesting maturing bonds in the
bond ladder an investor could
construct herself because unlike a
ladder, the investor has no control over reinvesting maturing
bonds in the ETF.
Our
laddered portfolios seek to diversify sector and issuer exposure and are
constructed using high quality municipal
bonds whose maturities are staggered from one to six, 12 or 18 years — ranges chosen specifically in an effort to add value.