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Video: The Trouble with Buying a Bond

By Matt Tucker, CFA | Jun 7, 2011 | 5 Comments

One of the advantages of a fixed income ETF is that it provides accessibility and price transparency in an asset class that can be problematic in both respects. Find out what happens when one of our own fixed income experts, Head of iShares Fixed Income Strategy Matt Tucker, tries to buy a bond in his own personal account.

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Gladys

Apr 2, 2013 at 6:56 pm

It’s interesting.

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