Matt Golab Discusses Bond Alternatives

ELK GROVE, Calif. - Feb. 26, 2014 - PRLog -- In this interest rate environment bond rates are low. Not only are they low they hold a massive amount of risk in this low rate world. The reason they hold so much risk when they are usually considered the safe side is because when interest rates rise the values of the bonds already issued will become less valuable and their value will drop. This drop could have devastating consequences on individuals portfolios.

The big brokerage firms are looking for “bond alternatives”. Since everyone is talking about a bond bubble and the dangers to peoples portfolios Wall Street firms are looking for alternatives for their brokers to present to clients. This is where the issues arise.

Here is a great example of an article from Mark Hulbert interviewing different Wall Street pros on their recommendations for who to use coming off the bench – http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-to-buy-instead-of-bonds-2014-01-10.

If you read this article (it’s pretty long), you will learn that the Wall Street Pros are recommending you replace your bonds with things like Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Utilities, and / or Business Development Corporations (BDCs). All represent nothing more than a panicked hunt for yield.

What they aren’t telling you is that these bench players (to give a sports analogy) are on the bench for a reason – they don’t play defense very well. In other words, while they are out hunting for yield, they leave themselves wide open to downside risk. To you and I, that means you can lose a lot of money in these types of investments, much more than you can lose in bonds.

What is interesting is that all of these “pros” ignore an account that has been around forever that works extremely well as an alternative to bonds. In fact, for years, many non-Wall Street financial pros have preferred these accounts to bonds as they do a great job with providing steady income and principal protection.

I’m talking, of course, about old fashioned fixed deferred annuities.

Your principal is protected, interest is paid, and you have no worries about losing any money. Interesting that the Wall Street guys don’t want to talk about such a thing, isn’t it? Perhaps it’s because when you send money into fixed deferred annuities, you are taking that money away from the Wall Street guys so they can’t make money off of you.

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