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Questioning Your Bonds? 3 Questions to Ask Your Advisor
October 07, 2014 at 19:00 PM EDT
Uncertainty is in the air, particularly if you’re a fixed income investor. As BlackRock’s Chief Investment Strategist Russ Koesterich wrote earlier this week, bond investing is different today than it was in the past. And that may well mean that what you were doing in the past, doesn’t work quite the same (or as well) as it used to. This is precisely one of those times you should be talking with your financial advisor. What should you ask him/her? Three things (at least.) 1) Does a changing market mean it’s time to change my fixed income portfolio? The answer might be yes. Your financial advisor can help you assess your current fixed income allocation to determine not only the types of bonds you hold, but the types of risk. Fixed income investing comes with two primary risks: interest rate risk (the risk a bond will lose value as interest rates […] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: No Related Posts
Uncertainty is in the air, particularly if you’re a fixed income investor. As BlackRock’s Chief Investment Strategist Russ Koesterich wrote earlier this week, bond investing is different today than it was in the past. And that may well mean that what you were doing in the past, doesn’t work quite the same (or as well) as it used to. This is precisely one of those times you should be talking with your financial advisor. What should you ask him/her? Three things (at least.) 1) Does a changing market mean it’s time to change my fixed income portfolio? The answer might be yes. Your financial advisor can help you assess your current fixed income allocation to determine not only the types of bonds you hold, but the types of risk. Fixed income investing comes with two primary risks: interest rate risk (the risk a bond will lose value as interest rates […]
