Sentences with phrase «recommend bond index»

I generally recommend bond index funds to diversify fixed income holdings.

Not exact matches

To get the mix you need, Prior recommends a total U.S. stock - market index fund, a total international stock market index fund, and an index fund that buys a broad sampling of U-S and international bonds.

Q: Why do you not recommend Total Bond Market Index such as VBTLX or BND or Schawb's SCHZ instead of Short - Term Government, Intermediate Term Gov. and Inflation protection?

Q; I follow your recommended Vanguard portfolios and wonder what you think about the recent addition of two International Bond funds — the Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund and the Emerging Markets Government Index Fund?

In other words, global sovereign bond index funds are few and far between, and I have never seen anyone recommend them as a core holding.

One adviser recently told me that «the bond index funds you recommend in your Couch Potato portfolios will soon be a disaster.»

Indeed, when finance writer Scott Burns created the original Couch Potato portfolio way back in 1991, that's what he recommended: half your money in a bond index fund, and a half in an equity fund.

The index mutual funds and exchange - traded funds we recommend in the Couch Potato portfolios track the broad DEX Universe Bond Index, which includes a wide range of maturities, from one year to more than 25 yindex mutual funds and exchange - traded funds we recommend in the Couch Potato portfolios track the broad DEX Universe Bond Index, which includes a wide range of maturities, from one year to more than 25 yIndex, which includes a wide range of maturities, from one year to more than 25 years.

Bodie is a finance professor at Harvard and he recommends a tips, i bonds approach with never more that 10 % in equity index funds or call options (leaps) for those willing to take some risk.

Billionaire Warren Buffett recommends that investors stick with simple stock index funds — not bonds and especially not bitcoins.

Once your online account is set up, buy a stock market index fund and a bond index fund that broadly replicate the mutual funds recommended by the bank branch (this step takes about 5 minutes)

He recommends one bank account, one Vanguard bond index fund and one Vanguard stock index fund.

We are recommending that our clients move from our existing benchmarks, the RBC CM Bond indices, to the Scotia Capital Universe Bond indices.

Here's the short answer: For stocks and bonds alike, we recommend a low - cost index approach over active attempts to react to an unknowable future.

While Buffet doesn't recommend that the typical investor cherry - pick stocks — he prefers conservative bonds and low - fee index funds for that purpose — Pysh and Brodersen emphasize that he makes sure to follow each of these four rules before investing in any company:

That's why I recommend a plain old broad - based bond index fund for most investors, particularly those who are still growing their portfolios.

Jordan Wathen (Vanguard Short - Term Bond ETF): I've recommended a super-safe bond index ETF not because I think you should run off to sell all your stocks, but because I think a lot of investors would do well to optimize the cash they hold in their portfolBond ETF): I've recommended a super-safe bond index ETF not because I think you should run off to sell all your stocks, but because I think a lot of investors would do well to optimize the cash they hold in their portfolbond index ETF not because I think you should run off to sell all your stocks, but because I think a lot of investors would do well to optimize the cash they hold in their portfolios.

It's true that interest rates are near historical lows: as of early May, 10 - year Government of Canada bonds are yielding just over 1.5 %, and a broad - based bond index fund like the ones I recommend in my model portfolios yield a little less than 2 %.