Investing Blog Roundup: Beating TIPS Yields with I Bonds

While I Bonds aren’t exactly a secret, they don’t get the amount of coverage they deserve — especially in an interest rate environment such as today’s in which yields on the other type of inflation-adjusted bonds (TIPS) are negative, even all the way out to 30-year maturities.

Presumably, that lack of discussion is for a combination of reasons. Nobody makes any money promoting I Bonds. There are no mutual funds that own them. There’s an annual purchase limit. And a lot of people don’t really like dealing with TreasuryDirect.

But as Harry Sit points out, there’s one easy way to buy some I Bonds each year:

• Overpay Your Taxes to Buy I Bonds for a Better Yield Than TIPS from Harry Sit

Recommended Reading

• Taxpayers Are Unaware of Remote Worker State Tax Liabilities from the AICPA
• A 50% Probability Of Success Can Be a Viable Monte Carlo Retirement Projection from Derek Tharp
• Money and Arranged Marriage from Maheswari Raja
• Repositioning SPIAs in Retirement from Peter Hofmann
• Dan Ariely on Post-pandemic Financial Planning from Allan Roth
• My Investment Portfolio: 2021 from Darrow Kirkpatrick
• Just Take the Money from Nick Maggiulli
• Struggling Workers’ Financial Woes Mount from Kim Blanton
• Experts Forecast Stock and Bond Returns: 2021 Edition from Christine Benz

Thanks for reading!