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Assume equal amounts invested--
Group 1: Playing the yield game:
Pimco High Income Fund
Strategic Global Income Fund
iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index
MFS Special Value Trust
Group 2: Hedge with the general market:
Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts
Group 3: Buy Cheap Protection Against Inflation:
Health Care REIT Inc.
Fidelity Inflation-Protected Bond (FINPX)
Fidelity Real Estate Income (FRIFX)
Fidelity Strategic Real Return (FSRRX)
Group 4: Insurance for when the SHTF:
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)
What do you think?
Physical gold would be handy if the SHTF. Not having acquired a meaningful inventory, I was thinking of laying in some number of cases of whiskey for barter.
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