Which is why over the years what I have done is hold a couple of stock mutual funds (or ETF version) and a couple of bond funds kept in some roughly appropriate proportion with just no interest figuring out exactly what the yield is or what the value of each asset is or is going to be and just moving on over the decades. I can do bond math if the question comes up but the issue is one of intellectual entertainment and not relevant to actual investing which in practice for me is much simpler than all that math.
But who cares? The forum is getting fixated on the behavior of bonds in isolation rather than on how the overall portfolio behaves. I have a hard time understanding why people are becoming so fixated on the bond portion in isolation rather than considering their whole portfolio.
I get that it feels nice to say “hey this one part of my portfolio is flat, hooray!” But we should be able to appreciate that the overall portfolio what matters.
Statistics: Posted by dbr — Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:31 am — Replies 35 — Views 2597