Investment Bonds: Finding your best return
Posted May 14, 2008
“If you want to invest in bonds… which ones do you choose?” — Andrew Gordon
by Andrew Gordon, Early to Rise
Baltimore – (TFN): This is what the government investment bond chart on the Bloomberg Web site showed me recently:
- 2 years: 2.13 percent return
- 5 years: 3.13 percent return
- 10 years: 3.50 percent return
- 30 years: 4.38 percent return
If you want to invest in bonds (these are U.S. Treasury bonds but you can do the same exercise with bonds from other countries), which ones do you choose? Read on to learn how to select the best bonds.
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