• runawaycorvid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Any of you all planning a bond tent closer to retirement?

    The thought of buying bonds hurts my soul. I’ve been so anti-bonds since I started investing 10 years ago. But if all goes well I may approach my FIRE number in 7-8 years, so at some point I’ll need to figure out a plan.

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      1 year ago

      We’ve got a fixed percentage of bonds in investment accounts, but we’ve also been accumulating i bonds for the last 7 years, so I suppose we have been (slowly) building a mini i bond tent (or maybe sleeping bag).

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      1 year ago

      Yup. I’m getting close as well, so like 10 years give or take depending on what the market does.

      I’m planning on a glide path like ERN describes in his SWR series. Basically, I’ll start buying bonds about 5 years from retirement, then move back to equities during the first 10 years of retirement. Or maybe I’ll do it over 20 years, i haven’t decided. I’ll basically be going somewhere between 20-40% bonds depending on how close I am to me FI number, the closer I’m cutting it, the higher my bond allocation will be.

      That said, bonds are looking pretty attractive right now. T-bills are around 5-6%, and they seem to be stabilizing, so longer term bond yields will likely be going to unless we have a recession. I’ve been switching my efund to t-bills, and if longer term bond yields go up, I might start my bond tent a little earlier than planned.