You're a bit late. See Reply#5.MangoMan wrote:Why? In what way?dualstow wrote: I think EDV would be a royal pain in taxable.
As PS says in the comment above this one, it throws off taxable income, but so do all bond funds.
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Without knowing exactly why, I made most of my taxable account's share of bonds "real" treasury bonds while keeping the more abstract investments in tax-sheltered accounts. As a result, though, I own less EDV than I'd like to own. I've got some true zeros in tax-sheltered as well.PointedStick wrote: (EDV) just generates taxable income like any other bond or bond fund. But it's a bit more unpredictable. Last year it threw off a huge dividend around Christmas-time that cost me a bit in taxes.
I'm planning to replace it with real treasuries at some point soon.
Reading this forum over the past few years, I got the sense that pure holdings like bonds and gold coins aren't just safer. They're also less of a headache with fewer surprises.