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Bond Ladder

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Bond Ladder
A strategy for managing fixed-income investments by which the investor builds a ladder by dividing his or her investment dollars evenly among bonds or CDs that mature at regular intervals simultaneously (for example, every six months, once a year or every two years).

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Advantages of bond ladders are consistent returns, low risk and ongoing liquidity because every interval you have securities expiring. The bond ladder also protects the investor's bond portfolio from call risk: since maturies are staggered, there is little chance that all bonds in one portfolio will be called at once.


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A bond ladder is a portfolio of bonds of similar amounts and types, maturing at different dates.
But because the fund holds approximately 65 bonds with maturities of 3 to 27 years, it's a bond ladder.
 
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