Greg Weston

Runaway Inflation: Do TIPS Really Help?

Puttster: TIPS provides inflation protection for the real income from the bond, and that's it. The regular bond get hit too from a rise in interest rates without the offset TIPS have.

Sure there may be some better investments, but if you want an extremely conservative one, they beat comparable Treasuries in this regard and have done a lot better than the S&P 500 the past year.