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Subject:
Risk Free Investment
Category: Business and Money > Finance Asked by: michel123-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
04 Apr 2005 13:13 PDT
Expires: 04 May 2005 13:13 PDT Question ID: 504836 |
Which bank/entity offers the highest risk free interest rate ? |
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Re: Risk Free Investment
From: xarqi-ga on 04 Apr 2005 17:08 PDT |
No investments are risk free. |
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Re: Risk Free Investment
From: clint34-ga on 05 Apr 2005 06:52 PDT |
Government Bonds, Totally risk free. |
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Re: Risk Free Investment
From: xarqi-ga on 05 Apr 2005 15:41 PDT |
Government bonds are certainly low risk, but they are not risk-free. There has to be a government there willing to repay them on maturity. If the revolution comes, or the national debt has to be repaid and deposited funds are requisitioned, or a period of hyper-inflation occur, they will have little value. Economies do collapse and governments do fall. No country is immune. Invest in helium, I say. It is hugely useful, and there is a very limited supply, and when it is gone, it is GONE. |
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Re: Risk Free Investment
From: financeeco-ga on 05 Apr 2005 16:21 PDT |
Perhaps the comments below are made after a very literal reading of the question. Michel123, in finance, the term "risk-free interest rate" has a very specific meaning. As alluded to in the other comments, the risk-free rate is the hypothetical return on a truly riskless asset. Since there is no such thing as a riskless asset in reality, US Treasury Bonds are used as a proxy. The current yield-to-maturity on T-Bonds (of any maturity) are used as the risk-free rate for their specific maturities. If you're looking for a "risk-free" investment that you can make, I would recommend a certificate of deposit (CD) at a bank. These are insured up to $100K by the FDIC, and you can buy multiple CDs at different banks to get deposit insurance on all of your deposits above $100K. www.bankrate.com lists the best CD rates nationwide. You could also look at buying Treasury bonds, although this exposes you to interest rate risk (fixed-income securities lose value as interest rates rise). I would only consider the direct purchase of T-bonds to be "risk-free" if I was absolutely certain that I would hold them until maturity, in which case I don't care about price fluctuations in the interim. |
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