 Love to welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel for a chronicle of my M1 finance portfolios. This will be my fixed income portfolio, kind of a cool way of investing. It's been, as Al cover, on recovery for the better part of last year and coming into 2023. It's actually got a chance here to actually fight back into positive territory. You can see here the divergence between the funding and how that's actually appreciated the account value over time, as opposed to what has been a pretty poor bond market, especially latter 2021 and into 2022 in its entirety. It was really, really bad. It was multi-decade lows, but the portfolio stood in nicely. I funded it over time. I disclosed those amounts to you. The bond portfolio is available to you in its entirety in the description below. It is affiliate linked. I can receive compensation to help support the channel for offering content like this. With that guys, we'll kick into the bond portfolio. Please enjoy. I like these opportunities where I can invite the grander subscriber base actually into real accounts. This is a unique Vanguard bond portfolio. It's comprised of all fixed equity ETFs or fixed income ETFs. The thing that I want to kind of point out here, there's a few things going on. This is a relatively new account for me. The idea here was to move off of the sidelines, pick up some exposure to fixed income. This has performed just about as bad as I could expect it to perform. I say that tongue-in-cheek to kind of put you on notice here and to put you on a couple of things here. The total cash flow into the portfolio is just over 4,000. You can see here that the value is just shy of 3,800. So we actually are down an aggregate of $175 in this portfolio. The bright spot in the portfolio, there are two. The one is the dividends rendered. They all pay out the same time. They pay four times each per year. So total payouts four times per year and those payouts are fairly large. Now the market gain here is slowly improving over time. That is a positive. The real big positive I want to show you here is the value over time. The value over time has come by way of funding this account over time. We started with a thousand bucks back in late 2021 and we have built this thing up over time by funding it at some point in the beginning with amounts as low as 25 bucks to this account. I actually believe that right now we're funding this account with about 50 bucks. We're funding it with about $50 I think every month or every couple of weeks. I need to look at that frequency but it's that amount. I just need to check the frequency and you can see here the value over time. Even though we've had zero help on the appreciation side, as bonds just took a bath there, they were at historic multi-decade lows. Right at around the time that I bought it of course and I got to watch it absolutely nosedive. That was a lot of fun for me. Butt par for the course and we live to fight another day. This is slowly recovering and my dollar cost averages will pay off on the back end only to see these ETFs come from the doldrums which some of these are right close to sneaking out of the basement here at $1.23 and $2 respectively on the short-term corporate and the short-term bond ETFs here. It'd be a nice feeling because I've really weighted these out since late 2021 when I started this. I have owned the account exclusively through 2022 and coming into 2023 I've never seen these accounts in the green. Never. I think this is a really cool way of investing in bonds. I think the total bond ETF by Vanguard probably could have been a better way to play bonds in all actuality because the total overall interest rate in this is about 3.13%. The total rendering of the total bonds market ETF is close to if not over 4%. It is a product that I will be looking to add to my portfolio in the near future. But as it pertains to this portfolio you can kind of see here how I've put the weighting on the intermediate-term bonds at the top, short-term bonds and then long-term bonds and then an extended duration as well as a long-term treasury ETF. So I've comprised this with specific targets. Most of them are, I tried to just go equal weight with the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 products total. But you can see here most of these are at or around 10 to at most 15% on the weighted exposure within this portfolio. But I wanted to give you guys an update on this. This is just one aspect and just angle basically cornerstone, which is kind of what I try to convey to investors is to establish these different cornerstones in the portfolio. And individually they may not make you wealthy overnight, but collectively, while one is actually digressing in value you can have certain cornerstones in the portfolio actually performing for you over time. And given a long enough time horizon that diversity of your cornerstones really can make a huge difference when we're talking about long-term performance. And this is just one aspect of how I seek out that performance in the equity market or excuse me in the fixed income market in my bond ETF portfolio. So with that guys, we'll kick you back and we'll conclude the video. So we've come out of the bond portfolio. I hope you enjoyed that and understanding my explanation on how I've interpreted the performance of the portfolio up to date. We will continue to chronicle that on our way to our next financial threshold, which we're staring down the $5,000 mark in route to the all-elusive $10,000 mark. We'll get that portfolio up above that mark and we'll evaluate it at that time. But I've been pretty satisfied with its recovery. That's for sure. This got me from a non-bond investor to a bond investor to put some work in play with the idea of capital preservation in mind. 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