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Questionable Advice From Morgan Stanley On TIPS

Posted on July 07, 2008

Morgan Stanley is telling clients to pare Inflation Protection Securities because TIPS Flunk Inflation Test as Fuel, Food Overtake CPI.Treasury Inflation Protected Securities aren't living up to their name for bond investors who say they can't trust the way the U.S. government calculates the rising cost of consumer goods.Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest securities firm, and FTN Financial, a unit of Tennessee's largest bank, are telling clients to pare holdings of TIPS, whose principal amount rises with the Labor Department's consumer price index. Morgan Stanley says derivatives tied to infla...

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