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xram wrote:Why are these lines so different?

Please try again It works like a charm (both are nearly identical)

Regards

All that my parents could brave out were the CDs. Anything beyond that is "risky" to them. I did not contribute to 401K for the first 3 years of my worklife. A colleague helped me understand that it is free money. I learned my first building blocks about money from http://www.bargaineering...

I have used I-bonds in my portfolio for Taxable account. Have to explore more on the TIPS part.

Bummer!...just bought the TT Premier a week ago in Amazon.com

Any way to return it?!

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I don't know much about Indian banks, but the reason I believe they pay high deposit rates is they are short of USD, and that is because there is risk. If we look at India right now (economic slump, end of a property bubble in many cities) we can see why. The market is afraid the banks won't pay ba...

All said, I will put 45k into pre-tax funds and roth this year, and after taxes, save close to 10k a month in cash. StrangerDanger I am trying to find avenues to increase my Pre-Tax saving money. You will manage to sock away 45K in pre-tax funds this year? how? My -Pre Tax saving is as follows adds...

grabiner wrote:
Is this a taxable account or an IRA? BLV is not good for a taxable investment because it generates a lot of dividends (3.51% currently, and this may go up), taxed at your full tax rate.

That is a great point. This is a Taxable Account. I did not think about it. Thank You!

But I cannot advocate adding to a LT bond position if you already have 20% of your AA in it. At this moment, I am using the I-Bonds as a secondary Emergency fund. My question was more in the line of for my future investments in the Bond part of my AA (20%), should I be investing solely in Bond Fund...

livesoft wrote:There are many other options in bonds than the choices you gave us. One of those options is to hold both BLV and I-bonds. Are you interested in other options?

Sure, I would be interested to know other Bond options as well. Thanks.

Hi all I am an index funds investor. I have a combo of the following Total US stock market fund (VTI) 40% Total International Stock Market fund (VXUS) 40% Long Term Bond Market fund (BLV) 20% I also invest in I-Bonds. My question is, from Bond part of my portfolio is it worthwhile to invest in Long ...