BND
PURPOSE TACTICAL INVSTMT GRADE BOND
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>People are learning that inflation is the enemy of bonds.
You have to specify which type bonds you are referring too. There are bonds with duration as short as a few months to decades with everything in between. Short term bonds can be, but mostly beyond that you're factually inaccurate.
>Keep your durations short if the purpose is to dampen volatility.
This is a nothing statement. You can keep your money under your mattress and have no volatility.
>Intermediate to long bonds can have bad returns at bad times (when equities are in a downturn).
>For an extremely long time interest rates trended downwards mostly (early 1980s until covid lows).
VBMFX, a mutual fund equivalent to BND, which is one of the most popular bond ETFs for US investors has an average annual return of over 5% since 1986

>People are learning that inflation is the enemy of bonds.
You have to specify which type bonds you are referring too. There are bonds with duration as short as a few months to decades with everything in between. Short term bonds can be, but mostly beyond that you're factually inaccurate.
>Keep your durations short if the purpose is to dampen volatility.
This is a nothing statement. You can keep your money under your mattress and have no volatility.
>Intermediate to long bonds can have bad returns at bad times (when equities are in a downturn).
>For an extremely long time interest rates trended downwards mostly (early 1980s until covid lows).
VBMFX, a mutual fund equivalent to BND, which is one of the most popular bond ETFs for US investors has an average annual return of over 5% since 1986