Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:18:30 -0600
From: Rich Carreiro 
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: Re: Long Term Bonds
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"TooTall"  writes:

> With the long bonds paying so little these days, is there any reason to
> put money into long term bond funds?  Seems a good way to lock in a low
> return.

If you look at various asset class studies, there's almost never any
reason to put money into long-term bonds, let alone LT bond funds.
The additional return you get (even when the yield curve is not
inverted) very, very seldom makes up for the vastly increased risk.

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Rich Carreiro                            rlcarr@animato.arlington.ma.us