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19 articles on this site analyse BND — 5 of them head-on.
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Duration and Convexity: What Bond-ETF Investors Get Wrong About Rate Sensitivity
Duration, not credit, is the dominant risk in high-quality bond ETFs — and TLT carries roughly three times BND's. Convexity is real but it is a second-order...
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Monte Carlo vs the 4% Rule: Simulating Retirement Withdrawals Instead of Assuming Them
The 4% rule is a single conclusion drawn from one country's worst historical sequence; Monte Carlo is a method that asks how often a plan survives across...
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The Diversification Return: Why Rebalancing Can Add Yield Even When Nothing Outperforms
A rebalanced portfolio can earn a higher compound (geometric) return than the weighted average of its parts — even if no single holding beats the others....
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Target-Date Funds vs a DIY Three-Fund Portfolio: What the Convenience Actually Costs
The headline fee gap between a Vanguard target-date fund and a self-built three-fund portfolio is roughly 0.04% a year — real, but far smaller than most...
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BNDX vs BND: Does Adding International Bonds Do Anything for a US Portfolio?
BNDX (international bonds) and BND (US bonds) have delivered nearly identical 10-year CAGRs — 1.5% and 1.4% respectively — which is not a coincidence,...
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MUB vs BND: When Municipal Bonds Beat Taxable Bonds — The Tax-Equivalent Yield Math
On stated yield, BND (3.95%) pays more than MUB (3.16%) — but MUB's income is exempt from federal tax, so the honest comparison is the tax-equivalent yield,...
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How to Rebalance Into a Drawdown Without Guessing the Bottom
Rebalancing bands turn a drawdown into a mechanical instruction — trim what held, add to what fell — without requiring you to identify the bottom. Over the...
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LQD vs HYG: Investment-Grade vs High-Yield Credit — What the Spread Actually Pays You For
The credit spread pays you for default risk — but over the last five years, the fund that lost more was the investment-grade one, not the high-yield one....
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TIP vs SCHP vs VTIP: How Inflation-Protected Bond ETFs Differ by Duration
TIP and SCHP hold the full-maturity TIPS ladder and behave almost identically; the only durable difference between them is a 0.15% fee gap that favors SCHP....
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TLT vs IEF vs SHY: Building a Treasury Duration Ladder for Different Rate Scenarios
TLT, IEF, and SHY charge the same 0.15% expense ratio, so this decision is not about cost — it is entirely about how much interest-rate duration you want to...
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A 2026 Rate-Cut Path: Bonds vs Cash When Yields Fall (SGOV vs BND)
The last five years rewarded cash (SGOV) and punished duration (BND) — but that record was set during a rate-hiking regime, and it is the wrong template for...
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BND vs AGG: The Two Total-Bond Giants — Duration, Yield, and Tracking Difference
BND and AGG charge the identical 0.03% expense ratio, yield within two basis points of each other, and posted max drawdowns within 0.1 percentage points...
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The Three-Fund Portfolio in 2026: What VTI, VXUS, and BND Actually Delivered
Over the trailing five years, VTI did the heavy lifting (12.3% CAGR), VXUS lagged (7.9%), and BND delivered almost nothing (0.1%) — yet that spread is the...
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The Mulden Hybrid Portfolio Framework: Quarterly Review (Q2 2026)
Across the 5-year window ending Q2 2026, the framework's diversifiers (gold) and growth tilt (QQQM) carried the return, while the bond sleeve (BND)...
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Why Sequence-of-Returns Risk Is the Hidden Killer Before Retirement
Sequence-of-returns risk is not about the average return over 30 years — it is about which years the bad ones land in relative to when withdrawals begin....
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Why Most Investors Get Rebalancing Bands Wrong (Daryanani 2008 Revisited)
Daryanani's 2008 paper is widely cited and widely misread. The actual finding was not "5/25" — it was that relative drift bands of roughly 20% of the target...
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What +/-15 vs +/-25 Rebalancing Bands Actually Do — A 15-Year 60/40 Backtest
Over 15.7 years on a 60/40 VOO/BND portfolio, annual rebalancing produced 9.99% CAGR; ±15% drift bands produced 10.23%; ±25% bands produced 10.59%. The...
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Gold vs Bonds in 2026: Two Different Hedges, Two Different Risks
Gold and bonds get grouped as "safe havens", but they hedge different risks — real rates and fiat credibility for gold; nominal yields and growth...
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SGOV and Gold in a 4.5% World: Rethinking the Defensive Sleeve for 2026
With SGOV's distribution yield at 3.9% and the 10-year Treasury at 4.47% (FRED, asof 2026-05-14), the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding gold is...
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