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Equities? A "value" or dividend fund -- there's a lot of overlap between the two. Less total return than VOO but far less volatile. SCHD has actually outperformed VOO year to date - by a wide margin. Stable return? IBTM, a fixed maturity Treasury ETF that liquidates in Dec. 2032, with a 5.11% annualized Yield to Maturity. Put in $10,000, get out $14,175 on Dec. 15, 2032. Or the TIPs version IBII -- yield is only 2.73% but that's pricing in future inflation adjustments to principal at just 2.3%. I think the inflation adjustments over the next few years will be significantly more than that. An obvious answer is an actual 7 year Treasury Note, but they only sell in increments of $100 (Treasury Direct) or $1000 (brokerage), making DCA difficult. They also throw off coupon interest payments that leave you with uninvested cash sloshing around in your account (unless you buy a zero coupon bond).
At a fundamental level holding a Treasury bond to maturity is different from holding the typical bond fund. The bond itself exposes you to opportunity risk, while bond fund exposes you to interest rate risk -- and TIPS funds carry a lot of interest rate risk. Or to look at it another way, someone buying investment grade bonds and holding them to maturity is doing something different from someone who is actively buying bonds and then selling them before maturity (which is what most bond funds do). There are workarounds, you can make holding bond funds behave the same as holding the actual bonds to maturity, but few retail investors are going to do that (including myself). And there are also defined maturity bond ETFs such as IBII, which act like a rung on a bond ladder if held to maturity/liquidation. 40 year old me would hold some bond funds and use them to rebalance against. 65 year old me wants the predictability that a bond ladder gives.
There are many ways to approach this. But your risk/greed levels do not match up well. Anyway: IBII. This is a defined maturity bond ETF holding United States TIPS that mature in 2032. It will mature/liquidate in October, 2032. Buy with a limit order set at the current market price (these are thinly traded since they are buy and hold investments). Set for dividend reinvestment. Let run to liquidation. Or buy the actual bond. CUSIP 91282CEZ0