Five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARM, averaged 2.88%, up from 2.85% yet below 3.77% of a year ago.
The five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage, or ARM, averaged 2.86%, down from 2.88% last week and 3.75% a year ago.
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It also suggests that the Alternative Minimum Tax--which threatens to ensnare millions of middle-income households--be indexed to inflation.
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One can only hope that he owns some tax-exempt inflation-indexed bonds, just in case.
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One-year Treasury-indexed ARM rates averaged 2.8%, up from 2.78% the prior week, though below 3.24% last year.
One-year Treasury-indexed ARM rates averaged 2.78%, up from 2.77% in the prior week and below 3.26% last year.
His rival, Vice President Al Gore, also focused on education, pledging to expand a tax-free, inflation-indexed savings plans enabling parents to set aside money for their childrens' college education.
In 1975 -- by no coincidence the first year that benefits were indexed to inflation -- Social Security's pension fund, whose formal title is Old-Age and Survivors Insurace (OASI), paid out more than it took in.
Rampant inflation--tax brackets weren't indexed in those days--was slamming workers with massive unlegislated tax hikes by pushing them into higher tax brackets.
Accordingly, a private replacement for Social Security would have to take the form of a fully-inflation-indexed annuity with zero risk of default.
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All that cleaner, greener gas has already been presold under 20-year contracts to buyers in Asia at prices indexed not to low-priced American gas but to high-priced oil.
As of its last public disclosure on this score, it had a modest 16% allocation to fixed income, consisting of 7% in inflation-indexed bonds, 4% in corporates and the rest in high-yield and foreign debt.
Note that you can get a risk-free real return of 3.5% on inflation-indexed U.S. Treasurys.
With personal accounts, such price-indexing was completely unnecessary, as workers over time would be replacing the promised wage-indexed benefits, which Social Security admittedly cannot finance, with the fully funded personal account benefits financed by real savings and investment.
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So if you are now, say, 65, are still working, and you started work at 16, you have 45 years of indexed earnings and 4 years of non-indexed earnings.
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Capital gains would also be indexed for inflation--no more paying taxes on phony gains.
Most of the advice offered by full-service firms can be boiled down to simple asset allocation and diversification using low-cost indexed mutual funds, Schwab says.
Inflation indexed 10 and 5-year Treasurys are both negative.
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The solution is a "dual-index" mortgage, in which the principal balance is indexed to inflation, and payments are indexed to Mexico's government-decreed minimum wage.
Yet the company has more active funds than index funds--62 to 56--and it actively manages three dollars for every two in its indexed funds.
Inflation-indexed bonds are securities that offer returns depending on the rate of inflation.
For tiny investments, the Is are a great deal, paying only half a point less than the tradable inflation-indexed Treasurys.
Income streams from real enterprises were nil anyway in the context of negligible economic growth and a tax code un-indexed for inflation.
The government said in February that it would issue inflation-indexed bonds to wean away small investors from buying unproductive assets such as gold.
Inflation-indexed Treasurys are also cited as providing a quiescent inflation indicator, calculated by subtracting their yield from the yield on normal Treasury bonds.
Inflation-indexed bonds now provide investors in many countries with better protection.
To increase liquidity, financial institutions will be allowed to invest in inflation-indexed bonds issued in the first half of the fiscal year, the central bank said.
Inflation-indexed bonds are experiencing a surge in popularity, both from investors worried about inflation and from borrowers who think they attract a different type of buyer.
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