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Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities: What Investors Should Know About TIPS

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TIPS have suddenly moved to center stage for investors, as the surge in inflation has drawn new interest in Treasury inflation-protected securities. But how much do investors really know about these securities, other than their alluring name? And those results don’t account for changes in the securities’ market price.

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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

Barry Ritholtz

1 Instead of being financially secure and the strongest country economically by far, we have created an unforced error that weakens us over the long term. But that doesn’t mean we should not have taken advantage of the lowest interest rates in modern history to refinance the United States debt.1

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (December 2022)

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As ultimately, very few human beings can effectively do compound math in their head, to figure out the cumulative impact of years or decades of a change in savings, investing, or other financial behaviors, on their long-term wealth. It’s the physical security protections that ensure the money cannot be stolen by thieves.

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

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That’s just the math. Treasury securities] and to give a bid to the gilt market to raise the level of gilts. If you’re not in it, you’re not going to benefit from the upside. What we’ve seen is actually more money created than what was sensibly needed to save the economy, and it’s obviously not going into the real economy.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. SEIDES: It wasn’t a question of security prices going down, it’s a question of like, can you transact? It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. So the credit markets froze. RITHOLTZ: And that was problematic.

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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

Barry Ritholtz

(emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. In the 2010s, the true risk-free rate of returns – 10-Year Treasuries – was yielding ~2.5%, so how could anything remotely risk-free be yielding 20 times that amount?

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, we have a lot of securities laws in this country, not because we’re obsessed with lawmaking, but because some bad stuff happened and we fixed it by making rules about it. RITHOLTZ: And security is a huge one. NADIG: And security is a huge one, knowing your customer is a big one, anti-money laundering. NADIG: Right.