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Category Archives: Investing in TIPS
2016: As inflation rises, TIPS out-perform the overall bond market
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com This article is the fourth in a series looking at how my three favorite bond funds — Vanguard Short-Term Inflation Protected (VTIP), Schwab U.S. TIPS (SCHP) and Vanguard’s Total Bond (BND) — performed after 2013, when … Continue reading
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2015: The Fed finally acts, yields rise and inflation remains muted
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com This article is the third in a series looking at how my three favorite bond funds — Vanguard Short-Term Inflation Protected (VTIP), Schwab U.S. TIPS (SCHP) and Vanguard’s Total Bond (BND) — performed after 2013, when … Continue reading
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2014: The yield curve flattens, inflation sinks, and TIPS ETFs have a ‘blah’ year
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com This article is the second in a series looking at how my three favorite bond funds — Vanguard Short-Term Inflation Protected (VTIP), Schwab U.S. TIPS (SCHP) and Vanguard’s Total Bond (BND) — performed after 2013, when … Continue reading
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2013: A year of surging real and nominal yields
Let’s take a deep-dive look at my three favorite bond funds: VTIP, SCHP and BND By David Enna, Tipswatch.com A couple weeks ago I wrote an article on the possible path of TIPS and TIPS funds as the Federal Reserve … Continue reading
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When the Fed begins tapering, what will happen to TIPS?
‘Talking about talking about’ is a signal that real yields could be rising By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, made some significant statements last week with the potential to shake up both the stock … Continue reading
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Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities 
You do realize that this is a website about inflation-indexed bonds?