With inflation hardly a part of the conversation for many fixed income investors, 2015 has not been kind to Treasury-Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). Confirming the notion that inflation is not a primary concern for advisors and investors are slumping commodities prices.
Exchange traded funds tracking multiple commodities are saddled with double-digit losses as are the major futures-based oil ETFs. Not to mention gold remains mired in a two-year bear market. The yellow metal is often a prime destination when investors are fretting about inflation.
"Recently, according to Bloomberg data, inflation expectations, as measured by the difference in yields between the government's TIP indices and its Treasury indices, have dropped, with 10-year expectations hovering around 1.5 percent, well below the long-term average. There are a number of logical explanations for this. For instance, the recent ...
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