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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoldFinger1969, post: 8652473, member: 73489&quot;]<b><span style="color: #0000ff">What is interesting is that if you punch up a 5 year or longer chart of any bond fund....you see the 2 big drops in 2020 (Covid) and 2022 (rising interest rates, duration).</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>These are 2 separate issues....<b>2020 was a CREDIT issue</b> (recession/GDP collapse) and <b>2022 was a RATE issue</b> (interest rates up).&nbsp; Ironically, they each produced the same big percentage drops in many bond funds even though for totally different reasons (and now that rates have continued to go up, the 2022 decline is eclipsing the 2020 one).</p><p><br /></p><p><u>I always tell prospective investors to know the nature of the bond fund they invest in....the simple quick way is to see how it performed during 2022...2020....and 2008-09 (need to go back further to see this but still possible).</u>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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