Inflation-linked bonds (TIPS) - experience?

[OldShooter]

OK, you got me interested and I found this:

"German Government bonds, Federal notes, Federal Treasury notes and inflation-linked bonds and notes are traded on European stock exchanges, numerous international electronic trading platforms and on the over-the-counter (OTC) market."
Deutsche Finanzagentur - Secondary market

So you can probably buy them through any big stock brokerage firm.

Other material I found indicates that there are other government issuers as well. If I were buying a bunch I would probably not buy from just one issuer and, completely unhampered by any actual expertise in European finance, I would probably not buy from troubled countries like the usual suspects in the south.

[Just_Steve]

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Originally Posted by copyright1997reloaded Yes, me also. Wish I could buy more.

All of our EE's were bought back in the mid 80's to the early 90's the company my wife worked for did a 50% match for every bond each pay period, I forgot what the max amount they would contribute and we were not at the max but it is still a substantial amount. The company did not offer a 401k at the time.
The oldest bond comes due in June then one a month for the next 6 years.
Looks like our restaurant habit will be financed nicely for a while.

[brucethebroker]

Great post OldShooter. Thanks for the info. Interesting thought......

[Totoro]

I am looking at this ETF specifically:
https://markets.ft.com/data/etfs/tea...s=IBCI:LSE:GBP

It's a mix of Germany, France, Italy and Spain. The largest issuers.