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Daniel Straus Purpose High Interest Savings PSA-T PAST TOP PICK May 16, 2018

(A Top Pick January 13/17 Up 2%) Not meant to have a huge return as it is meant to mirror cash by holding high interest savings as a convenience. He likes holding cash better than bonds.

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Good place to park your money, and fees are low. 

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If he was concerned about a downturn, he'd just look at a daily high interest ETF like HISA or PSA. Those ones give you 5-5.5% right now, and next day liquidity.

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De-risking 40% of a portfolio at age 59.

Likes the idea of PSA. TLT, he believes, is a leveraged play on the bond market and wouldn't do that. BNS high interest savings, for example, pays 4.75% for optionality and no risk. 

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