If you are just thinking purely in terms of how much risk you can take between now and the next 20, 30 years, what have you, I think you can probably rely on the bond portion of your portfolio a little bit better than you could when rates were so much lower because that does give them a cushion, helps them be a little more resilient.

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Hey everyone, thanks for joining us today on Her Money.

I'm Gene Chatsky.

And this is a show that I have been wanting to do for a while. We're going to talk about

bonds. Don't press escape. Don't leave. Look, for forever, bonds have been a really important part of

your portfolio. 40% has often been the amount that people said put in bonds. And what has

happened in the past couple of years is that advice has started to get controversial. It started

to get squishy. We don't know what to do about our bonds.

But by the end of this half hour, I promise you will know what to do.

And that's because I've asked Eric Jacobson to join me for this episode on Bonds 101.

We're really going back to basics.

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