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To: fightin kentuckian

A good rule is your age as a percent of portfolio in bonds.

Look at the performance of EFT TLT (long treasuries) vs SPY (s&p) over the last few weeks.

TLT is a great hedge against this sort of thing.

Because I am in Canada, i have some in Canadian bond and stock ETFs as well as US. Canadian bonds were doing well, but they are starting to sag now as well, as is the $CDN.

In the extreme, the flight to safety is US dollars and US treasuries.


100 posted on 02/27/2020 3:15:12 PM PST by Reverend Wright (TAX the WOKE !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Long Treasuries (10-year plus) are only yielding roughly 1.25 - 1.3%.

I suppose that’s better than some EURO T-Bills that are yielding NEGATIVE percent (still trying to figure out why anyone would buy those)..and better than your portfolio taking a hit like we have this week..but still not a place that’s going to generate the type of returns needed to live on in retirement..


145 posted on 02/27/2020 3:58:32 PM PST by jstolzen
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