I have just read an article by Zvi Bodie, who has authroed a few university investment texts, and he reminds us of a simple but unfortunately forgotten or ignored concept…
“Matching is the safest investment strategy for achieving a specific goal. To eliminate the risk of falling short of an investment goal at a specific future date, the investor needs to match the maturity of his investments to the date of his goal, with target dated, inflation protected investments” like inflation linked bonds.
Government Inflation linked bonds is the only true risk free investment…does anyone actually realise this fact???