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Why TIPS Won't Protect Against Rising Rates

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Thu, 25 Feb 2010

If there's one thing that every Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities fund investor should know, it's this: TIPS do not offer guaranteed protection from interest-rate risk. Confusing TIPS' inflation-hedging ability with an ability to fight off interest-rate volatility is a wholly understandable e…

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