Some investment horizon, as you call it, is usually is based on a plan for how long you want your money to last for spending purposes. Its exactly what bond adders.do on their own but can be replicated using bond funds. And that is to generate known income along the way. If you can tolerate interest rate risk with short duration bonds then that works too.I am not so concerned with matching with some investment horizon. I typically want bonds to rebalance into stocks in a bear market. Yield is secondary and matching some horizon I don’t consider important … but immediate spending needs is why I hold the short duration bonds.I would recommend considering basing bond's duration based on the OP's investment horizon. Once that's determined then hold whatever combination of bonds, in the aggregate, matches this horizon and adjust periodically as the investment horizon drops.I would suggest you split your bond holds based on duration. Have half in intermediate bond fund (BND) 6 to 7 years duration and half in short term bond fund 2 to 3 year duration (VBIRX)
A good explanation can be found here: viewtopic.php?t=340252
But, as others have noted, do nothing until there is a better understanding of bonds and bond funds.
Cheers.
Statistics: Posted by dcabler — Wed Aug 21, 2024 9:13 pm — Replies 22 — Views 2110