Summary of Strategies For Bond Investing With Rising Interest Rates - A Deep Dive by The White Coat Investor

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The White Coat Investor provides strategies for investing in bonds during a time of rising interest rates. He recommends investing in short-term bonds, money market funds, inflation-adjusted bonds, and stable value funds. He also advises against extrapolating the past into the future and points out that long-term bonds offer an advantage over short-term bonds when rates go up.

• 00:00:00 The White Coat Investor recommends strategies for bond investing in a rising interest rate environment, including short-term bonds, money market funds, inflation-adjusted bonds, stable value funds, and hedging. He cautions against extrapolating the past into the future, noting that interest rates may go up, down, or remain the same. He also points out that long-term bonds offer an advantage over short-term bonds when rates go up, and that stable value funds offer stability and protection from inflation.
• 00:05:00 The White Coat Investor talks about how to invest in bonds, noting that there are two types of bonds: fixed-income (bonds with stable values) and nominal (bonds with variable values). He advises people to have a fixed asset allocation strategy, which he describes as "putting 12 and a half percent of your portfolio into tips and 10 percent into bond funds for nominal bonds." He also recommends rebalanceing your portfolio every balance, based on his assessment of interest rates.