The Experts: How to Deal With Rising Interest Rates
What is the best advice for investors worried about rising interest rates? The Wall Street Journal put this question to The Experts, an exclusive group of industry, academic and other thought leaders who engage in in-depth online discussions of topics from the print Report. This question relates to a that discussed the best dividend strategy given the threat of rising interest rates and formed the basis of a discussion in The Experts stream on July 9.</br></br>The Experts will discuss topics raised in this month's Investing in Funds & ETFs Report and other Wall Street Journal Reports. Find the finance Experts stream, watch recent interactive videos and explore a host of other exciting online content at</br></br>Also investment adviser Tom Brakke ( ), blogger Mike Piper ( ) and University of California, Berkeley, Professor Terrance Odean in an interactive video chat that aired on July 8 in which they discussed strategies for coping with market volatility.</br></br>Tom Brakke: It All Depends on Your Portfolio and Tolerance for Risk</br></br>Given the complexity of the fixed-income market and the different kinds of instruments that are hurt by rising interest rates (including investments in asset classes other than fixed income), it is difficult to come up with a blanket recommendation for how to proceed. It depends on your portfolio and your risk tolerance. The market behavior of recent weeks should have provided clues as to which of your investments are most at risk if market rates rise further.