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Horace Heffner <hheffner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'm looking for a low market exposure brokerage in which to hold TIPS
> in an IRA for 10 years or more. This is intended to be a repository
> for the highly secure ****tion of a ****tfolio, similar in function to
> gold, but without the downside risk, and with the prospect of making a
> small amount above inflation.
If you are in US government backed instruments and insured accounts,
what downside is there? And if you pick some small outfit that nobody
has heard of, and they get in trouble, are they going to have the
reserves to cover you before they fold up and need hand you off to
the insurance company?
-john-
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