About this episode

The episode explores whether individual bonds are safer than bond funds and examines the concept of holding to maturity.

Are individual bonds safer than bond funds? After my last video on cash versus bonds, a lot of you pushed back with the same argument: with an individual bond or a bond ladder you can hold to maturity and get your money back, and a bond fund can't do that. In this video I put that idea to the test with real numbers. I start with the one thing we have to understand first, the difference between a bond's maturity and its duration. Duration is what tells us how much a bond or a bond fund moves ...

People in this episode

Host: Rob Berger

Topics covered

• bonds
• bond funds
• investing
• financial safety
• duration
• maturity

Keywords

• bonds
• bond funds
• safety
• investment strategy
• duration
• maturity

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