You want it to at
least keep up with inflation, and ideally to grow at an even better rate.
Now, as an investor aware of that hidden tax, I had to find a way to make sure that the income I could get from my investments would at
least keep up with inflation!
These funds seek to at
least keep up with inflation by purchasing Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, a special type of government bond that pays an interest rate which is periodically adjusted for inflation based upon the Consumer Price Index.
More importantly: does a safe investment exist which can at
least keep up with inflation?
Since core inflation is running at roughly 2.3 % a year, I wanted stocks that could at
least keep up with inflation, meaning an earnings yield of more than 2.3 %.
And the growing nature means you should be able to at
least keep up with inflation (keeping your purchasing power intact), if not actually outpacing inflation (increasing your purchasing power).
Their distribution should at
least keep up with inflation, so 7 % real return is «almost» money in the bank.
Not exact matches
I'm okay
with having money that we'll definitely use in a couple of years sitting in a bank account, but if we want to not worry about having to buy in a rush for fear of
inflation, then we need to have that money at
least keeping up with it.
No telling what the future will do, but I'm at
least investing my money in some index fund or lifecycle funds in order to
keep up with future
inflation.
The money is just sitting there and I would like to
keep up with inflation at the
least.
It will at
least allow you to (hopefully)
keep up with inflation.
But given that tuition rates increase at about twice the
inflation rate, you'll need to earn at
least 7 % to 8 % after taxes in order to
keep up with increases in college costs.)
Your initial high yielding investments are likely to
keep up with inflation (about 3 % per year) or, at
least, come close.
We have to make sure it earns a good rate of return, since we need to
keep up with inflation at the very
least!