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Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities: What Investors Should Know About TIPS

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TIPS have suddenly moved to center stage for investors, as the surge in inflation has drawn new interest in Treasury inflation-protected securities. But how much do investors really know about these securities, other than their alluring name? And those results don’t account for changes in the securities’ market price.

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

Barry Ritholtz

(emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. In the 2010s, the true risk-free rate of returns – 10-Year Treasuries – was yielding ~2.5%, so how could anything remotely risk-free be yielding 20 times that amount?

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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

Barry Ritholtz

1 Instead of being financially secure and the strongest country economically by far, we have created an unforced error that weakens us over the long term. But that doesn’t mean we should not have taken advantage of the lowest interest rates in modern history to refinance the United States debt.1

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

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As ultimately, very few human beings can effectively do compound math in their head, to figure out the cumulative impact of years or decades of a change in savings, investing, or other financial behaviors, on their long-term wealth. It’s the physical security protections that ensure the money cannot be stolen by thieves.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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That’s just the math. Treasury securities] and to give a bid to the gilt market to raise the level of gilts. If you’re not in it, you’re not going to benefit from the upside. What we’ve seen is actually more money created than what was sensibly needed to save the economy, and it’s obviously not going into the real economy.

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Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

Barry Ritholtz

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. So you come out of Villanova, you end up at first Boston in, in 1987 in the Special Situations Fund and Distressed Securities Group. 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. So you think back 30 years, there was so many people who were focused on individual security selection, picking individual stocks. So our shareholders benefit whenever there’s a lot of demand for certain securities that we own.