Welcome to a special Invest Talk Bonus Program, the Invest Talk Rapid Fire Hour.

Typically each day, Steve Peasley and Justin Klein receive more new voice bank questions than they can fit into a live show format.

So, in this bonus program, caller questions will be served up and answered with brief but helpful responses from

Steve or Justin.

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Hello and thank you for downloading this Investop podcast everybody everybody I'm Steve Peasley and we've been tracking our podcast download numbers and they have increased month over month.

This is very good. But as you can imagine more listeners results in more live show callers and also a greater number of voice bank questions.

So we are dedicating this show to your pre-recorded caller questions, the calls that came in earlier at 88899 chart,

and I will provide as many answers as possible in this bonus podcast.

So let's get started.

Hi, my name is Matt.

I'm 34 years old, been a listener for a couple years.

Historically, been invested just in equities and, you know, during the last month or so I'm realizing I need to try shift my focus to be invested in some bonds as well. I was wondering what the easiest way to gain

exposure would be. I don't have a lot of time to actively manage individual portfolio

companies holdings. For instance, I've been selling out of

individual securities last year and buying into the ETS just to sort of

passively manage my portfolio. So I was wondering if bond ETS were an option or if I should

be looking more towards bond mutual funds. I understand that both have risks but

I'm essentially just wondering what's the easiest way I can gain exposure to fixed income without having to actively search for individual bond.

Look forward to hearing answer on the podcast.

Thanks.

Well, I would prefer Bond EDFs.

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