Strategy Intermediate: How to Inflation-Protect Your Portfolio

Introduction to How to Inflation-Protect Your Portfolio Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) and Inflation Commodities and Inflation Stocks and Inflation Summary of How to Inflation-Protect Your Portfolio
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Introduction to How to Inflation-Protect Your Portfolio

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You can protect your portfolio from the ravages of inflation in many ways; three of those ways are touched upon here.

What you will learn

  • Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) and Inflation
  • Commodities and Inflation
  • Stocks and Inflation

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Introduction to How to Inflation-Protect Your Portfolio

Inflation is one of the natural enemies of most investors. Think of it as compounding in reverse: What your investment returns give with one hand, inflation can take away with the other.

Compared to previous periods in history, inflation appears to be under control in the United States. Nevertheless, investors should consider the toll that inflation can take when building a portfolio.

There are several tools you can use to add some inflation-protection to a portfolio—especially to a portfolio that consists predominantly of fixed-rate investments.

Here are some options to choose from.