Result: You have
a large hedge against inflation (your mortgage), can move anywhere at any time (you're renting), and a secondary source of income (your tenant), subsidising your rental costs.
Not exact matches
You can even use ETFs to directly implement a
hedge, such as using an inverse S&P 500 ETF to
hedge large - cap exposure, or commodity ETFs to
hedge against inflation.
While commodities can be useful as a
hedge against inflation, they generally shouldn't make up a very
large portion of your assets — typically no more than 5 % to 10 % for most investors.
While commodities can be useful as a
hedge against inflation, they generally shouldn't make up a very
large portion of your assets — no more than 5 % to 10 % for most investors.
Many
large estates were bought not to produce food but simply as a
hedge against inflation, which hovered at around 1000 per cent until mid-1994.
I also suspect Japanese property could be a potentially decent currency
hedge (& even a
hedge against a run - away fiscal /
inflation scenario), and it's a pretty compelling property market in its own right — so it might be an attractive alternative to other
large cap sectors.
By and
large, this group is not looking to invest in oversized homes, yet we could see improvement in higher price ranges as a
hedge against inflation and risk.