It’s Sunday, which means...it’s recap time here on the Retirement Quick Tips Podcast

This week the theme was: What Higher Interest Rates Mean For Your Bond Portfolio

In case you missed any episodes, here’s what we covered this week:

• Why Higher Interest Rates Are Actually Good For Bond Investors 
• Don’t Abandon Bonds! Here’s Why You Need Them In Retirement
• Rising Interest Rate Investing Strategies: Short-Term Corporate Bonds 
• Rising Interest Rate Investing Strategies: The Bond Ladder
• Rising Interest Rate Investing Strategies: Inflation-Protection Bonds

 

Here’s the bottom line: Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater and abandon your bond portfolio. Bonds still deserve a meaningful place in your investment strategy for retirement, but it’s important to understand how interest rates impact bonds and how you should be positioning your bond portfolio to take advantage of it. 

Tomorrow, come on back, because we’re starting a brand new theme: Why Excess Money Supply Is The Real Inflation Culprit. 

I sat down for an interview with Senior Portfolio Manager and co-founder at Washington Crossing Advisors, Kevin Caron. He’s a frequent speaker on markets and economy-related issues and comments regularly for media outlets like CNBC, PBS, Fox Business, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Forbes, CBS Radio, and Dow Jones. He had some interesting insights to share with me on inflation - what’s driving it, whether elevated inflation is more transient or here to stay, and what investors can do about it. 

I really enjoyed my interview with Kevin, and I’m really looking forward to sharing the interview with you next week. 

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Thanks for sharing the love and spreading the word. My name is Ashley Micciche, this is the Retirement Quick Tips Podcast and lastly, I hope you have a blessed Sunday.

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