At Your Finger TIPS
Get a hold on high inflation rates with treasury inflation-protected securities.
In the world of investing, tips are hot. And they're aboutto get hotter. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS,didn't exist eight years ago, and until this summer, theyexisted only in a single maturity. Some were predicting the deathof TIPS altogether as recently as three years ago, with inflationlow and Wall Street dragging its feet because unprofitablebuy-and-holders were the only ones who seemed to want inflationindexing.
But these days, investors of all stripes are taking another lookat TIPS. The amount of money devoted to the newfangled Treasurieshas mushroomed in the past 18 months, and mutual funds devoted toinflation indexing began to sprout this year, too. With the marketgrowing fast, pension funds and other large institutional investorsare almost sure to follow.
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