What is (TIPS) Bonds/Fixed Income and How do Investment Advisors, Investment Banker, Stock Broker Professionals Calculate TIPS Payments?
Very interesting Topic has come up on my Study Plan this week inside the Fixed Income topic and Investment Vehicles. This post will go on to explain and demonstrate exactly “How” and “What” Treasury Inflation Protected Securities are used for as Investment Vehicles and the math that we use to calculate the Payments.
To make this simple according to the United States Treasury “(TIPS): are marketable Treasury securities whose principal amount is adjusted for inflation. They were first auctioned in January 1997 after the market expressed a strong interest in the inflation-indexed asset class. In 2009, 20-year TIPS were discontinued in favor of 30-year TIPS. Treasury now offers 5-year, 10-year, and 30-year TIPS.”
TIPS are used in Investment Portfolio’s for the purpose of staying ahead or keeping pace with inflation happening on the Consumer Price Index. The following article is “How Investment Professionals calculate and do the math for TIPS for your Portfolio. But first let’s watch more for The Money Guy Show explaining TIPS and How they are bought and used by Retail Investor and Investment Management.
TIPS are not just another Investment vehicle we use in Portfolio Management or as Investment Fund Managers. We must be highly selective on what make since at the time when we are building Investment Portfolios. Like other Treasury securities, TIPS are exempt from state and local tax. But! The TIPS interest and income on the principle are still taxed at the Federal Level for that year. Please have your Investment Counsel or Investment Advisor give you more information related to the Taxation of your own Investments. This post should not be used as Investment Advice and is strictly a informative guide to math of TIPS.
How to Calculate Treasury Inflation Protected Securities
It’s true when calculating TIPS that there is a part of this method that does involve compounding of the Coupon Rate and the Principle Semiannually. This is how we Make the Math Make Since. You need to know first, That we use the Nominal Yield as the Coupon and we also use the Principle value for our computation/calculations.
Let’s say for instance we have (TIPS) that pay’s 6% annually and then Inflation Rate is 4% for the next 3 years? Here is what happens Mathematically and how we see this Investment Vehicle work and keep pace with Inflation.
Let’s say you bought the 6% TIPS BOND and the Inflation Rate is 4% for the next three years.
You first need to understand the Coupon/Nominal Yield of 6% will be paid in two installments of 3% semiannually. And the 4% will be compounded and paid on the Principle of the Bond.
BOND is $1000 at par.
6months pass by… We are paid as the Bond Holder $1020.00,(2%+1000=1020.00) the first semi annual Dividend we are paid is $30.60.
6months later? We are paid another 40.20. Which now added brings our Bond Principle to ($1040.40). Our Second semi annual Dividend paid to us is $31.21
Year 1 Complete.
Year 2 after 6 months We are paid on the Principle and now Principle increases to (1,061.21). The math to get to this number is (1,040.40×102%=1,061.21) Our first Dividend for this year is paid to us $31.84. How we arrive at this dividend number? We take 1,061.21×3%=31.84
Six Months later our Principle is paid again (1,061.21×102%=$1,082.44) Our final semi annual year 2 Dividend is paid out. (1,082.44×3%= $32.47)
Year 3, six months pass and our Principle is paid (1,082.44×102%=1,104.09) Our first year 3 Dividend is paid out (1,104.09×3%=$33.12)
Six Months later our final year three semi annual Principal is paid (1,104.09×102%=1,126.17) Our final year 3 Dividend is paid out (1,126.17×3%=$33.78).
The Math is clear and so is the method we use to calculate (TIPS) Treasury Inflation Protected Securities. It’s easy, clean math. If you had trouble calculating the math here? Please feel free to email me and I would be happy to walk you through the math in a Video. You may be wondering why I wrote and posted this? Well truth is? I love this stuff and do it for fun. I know I am slightly bizarre. But in all fairness Mr. Bill Gross who is a fellow Navy Veteran and Bond Bad Ass who built the Bond Company PIMCO is also a life long student of Fixed Income and Investing Wisdom. Please do feel free to watch this video Documentary of Mr. Gross. It’s certainly is worth the watch!
However the proof is in the numbers. And rolling up your sleeves and learning new things is the backbone of what makes a Great Investor and Investment Professional. I hope you enjoyed todays post and learned something. Thank You for stopping by.
Godspeed
JS