More Ways to Lock in Higher Yields in Case Interest Rates Fall
Professional investors and other market participants are lousy at forecasting interest rates. Here are three more options to lock in higher yields today.
Topics covered include:
The risk of buying long-term bonds and ETFs to benefit from falling yields
How volatility drag has impacted a long-term bond ETF like TLT
Why interest rates won't go up just because the government issues more bonds
How CDs, fixed annuities, and zero-coupon bonds work
We compare and contrast the seven fixed-income options reviewed in this two-part series
