It’s a brand new weekly theme here on the One Minute Retirement Tip, and this week we’re talking about investing in bonds. (snore) No, kidding! I love bonds and it’s important that you understand how to invest in bonds because they are likely to play a key role for your investment portfolio in retirement.

First off, to make sure we’re all on the same page here, let me backup and explain what I mean by investing in bonds. Technically, we’re talking about fixed income, but you can think about bond investing as everything from CDs that you buy at the bank, to corporate bonds, U.S. Treasury Bonds, or bond funds.

There are a lot of different ways to invest in bonds, but here’s why I’m focusing on this topic: Bonds will likely be a critical component of your investment portfolio in retirement. So it’s important that you have a basic knowledge of how to invest in bonds and why you should consider bonds for your retirement portfolio in the first place.

So this week, I’m going to help you better understand bonds - why you should invest in bonds, what % of your portfolio should be invested in bonds in retirement, the top 3 bond investing mistakes that I see people make, how to build a bond ladder, and how to decide between bond funds and individual bonds.

This is a big, important topic and I’m going to do my best to help you become a better bond investor this week.

That’s it for today. Thanks for listening!

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