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The role of government bonds in portfolios

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"For the past decade, you couldn’t create inflation no matter how hard you tried. Now inflation is biting and interest rates are moving up, it's been a difficult time to invest in them, but prices have moved back to a more reasonable level.

"In the short term bonds haven’t offered meaningful diversification but over the long term they will provide it.” 

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