AlexR

TIPs to Protect Yourself from Future Inflation

Not sure about IPE, but TIP suspended its dividend when the underlying bonds stopped gaining principal value. Their 8% yield was not funded from interest payments, but from CPI adjustments on the principal, which they monetized by selling bonds.

On Dec 06 04:52 AM Extreme Value Investor wrote:

> This question may seem elementary but the current yields everyone
> speaks of are difficult to confirm. I looked at the charts of IPE
> and TIP and it appers both ETF's stopped paying dividends. Per MSFT
> Investor, IPE's last dividend was 2/08 and TIP stopped it's regular
> monthly dividend in November. Thoughts?