Cash Is Not Enough: How Can Bond ETFs Protect Your Portfolio?

Everyone has an idea about how the Stock market works. Yet, Bond markets are widely misunderstood. By Retail Investors, they are quite often labelled as ‘uninteresting’, to put it mildly. But Bonds are important for the overall success of your investment strategy. For instance, most investors are still surprised to hear that Bond ETFs can lose 20%+ of value. Bonds can also ‘pop’ during a crisis when they gain as much in value in a few weeks. Let’s play with a simplified Bond ETF calcul...