A Complete Guide to Bond Investing

Investors today are nervous about bonds because of the historically low yields. The fear is that as interest rates rise, the value of existing bonds will fall. In this video we'll walk through bond investing for beginners. I'll cover how bonds work, my approach to bonds, and some suggesting bond funds.

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Note: At 26:14 my reference to I bonds should have been TIPS.

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Timestamps
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0:00 Investing in Bonds
1:53 What is a bond and how do they work
3:40 Government, Muni and Corporate Bonds
4:30 Credit Risk (i.e., risk of default)
8:14 Bond Maturity
9:12 Treasury Bills, Notes and Bonds
11:10 Bonds vs Savings Accounts and CDs
13:00 Bonds and Taxes
15:00 Bond Yields
20:23 Why bond prices fluctuate
20:55 How rising interest rates affect bond values
23:09 How credit risk affects bond values
24:07 Total Return of Bonds
26:15 Bond Duration
33:15 Why invest in bonds
35:00 Lump Sum vs Dollar Cost Averaging
36:43 I Bonds and TIPS
41:25 TIPS vs Treasury bonds
42:35 The purpose of bonds in a portfolio
45:20 How to build a bond portfolio
51:00 Investing in bonds during retirement

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