Explore TIPS: A Practical Guide to Investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities

I've been a professional quantitative analyst and portfolio manager on the stock side for 20 years. I wanted to learn more about TIPS. This book fits the bill nicely. It walks you through the rewards and risks of owning TIPS. It also gives you all the nuts-and-bolts details that you need to implement a TIPS purchase or sale, including consideration of where to buy them and the associated trading costs. While you could get these details on your own, this book saves you a lot of time and effort.If there is a second edition, it would be interesting to add a discussion of TIPS returns over time and the factors responsible for those returns. In other words, when TIPS have done exceptionally well (or poorly), what were the driving factors.The book is well written and a good value for those who are new to TIPS. In the interest of full disclosure, I don't know the author.

contains information about TIPS that is hard to find anywhere else.very useful if you are considering buying TIPS.examples regarding purchasing TIPS on the secondary market could be updated

This was a great book! It helped me understand Bonds and TIPS a lot better. It actually covers how to obtain from auction and on the second hand market. Its around 120 pages. If you are looking to diversify into Bonds I recommend this book.

I bought this book early 2011. While reading I decided on a fairly large purchase of TIPS (large for me) based on my readings (plus other sources). Well, long story short, yields now are down to literally nothing. That means, the price of the TIPS have gone way up. I have sold more than 1/2 of what I bought in January at a rather large profit %.I wish there was a follow up to this to advise in a low/no interest rate environment. The "easy" money was made. Now TIPS becomes a harder buy (especially longer term TIPS).

Everything you ever wanted to know about TIPs presented in an organized and understandable way. While the underlying principles of why TIPs move up and down can be complicated, this book allows one to invest with confidence.

Good primer but not as clearly written as I would have liked.

The one missing piece-- how to build a retirement income ladder with TIPS. This post by Wade Pfau goes a long way towards describing that-- [...]With this and that, now you know everything.

This is the complete guide to investing in TIPS and IBonds. It is the ideal book for anyone interested in the subject, and everyone should be interested in this subject.