Explore Tips: A Practical Guide to Investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, Paperback/The Finance Buff

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Description Learn anything and everything about TIPS -- the inflation indexed bonds. Written for retail investors from the author's real-world experience, Explore TIPS gives you all the details about investing TIPS other books only gloss over. Starting from the very basics, what TIPS are and how they work, the book guides you through How to invest in TIPS through mutual funds and ETFs How to buy individual TIPS directly from the U. S. Treasury How to buy TIPS on the secondary market TIPS strategies The book also includes many tools the author created for aiding the decision making. About the Author The Finance Buff a. k.a. TFB is a pseudonym used by a blogger who writes a blog by the same name at thefinancebuff. com. TFB holds an MBA degree in Finance. He also has a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) designation from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. TFB has been sharing his experience and thoughts about personal finance with online readers since 2006. Today, more than 50, 000 people visit his blog in any month. He was the author of a chapter on defined benefit pension plans in Bogleheads' Guide to Retirement Planning (John Wiley & Sons, 2009).