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Duration matching: should you match your bonds to your time horizon? [Members]

Posted By The Accumulator On In Investing,Mavens,Membership | 18 Comments

The standard advice for passive investors is to match the duration [1] of your bond holdings to your investment time horizon. Sensible enough – but, like many an oft-repeated heuristic, this duration matching strategy has been boiled down from a rich broth of nourishing guidance into a thin soup that amounts to empty calories for most people.

So let’s take a fresh look at duration matching’s nutrition label and find out: 

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