Looking to add some safer investments to my RH portfolio, so far I've only looked at Vanguard ETFs, which are:
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$BSV - Short term bonds
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$BND - Total bond market
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$VCSH - Short term corporate bonds
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$VCIT - Intermediate-Term Corporate Bonds
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$BIV - Intermediate-Term Bonds
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$BNDX - Total International Bonds
I'm looking at the Vanguard page on each of these bonds and wondering what important metrics are to look for. I swing trade mostly blue-chip or other low-volatility stocks like Amazon, Google, MCD, MSFT, BRK.B, AAPL, BABA if that matters for how I should make my choice.
Fairly aggressive investment strategy at age 23, looking for ~70% stocks and ~15% bonds.
On my own homework, I would say that I would go 40% BND, 30% BSV, 30% VCSH probably because the immediate term bonds have risk if interest rate rise. And if interest rates rise, then the economy is likely doing well so my stocks will be performing well.
Is this a good assessment?
Submitted April 29, 2017 at 09:27PM by MuphynManIV http://ift.tt/2pKa5qk
