Savings Bond Advisor archive for February, 2006

My dad has some Savings Bonds that he would like to cash in. The problem is that he is in the hospital with kidney failure and can't go to a bank. How does one go about doing this?

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Why does the U.S. Treasury finance part of the national debt with Savings Bonds rather than with Treasury notes and bonds that are much cheaper? T-bonds with a maturity of 5/15/30 are trading with a yield of about 4.7% this morning while the rate on I Bonds is 6.73%.

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I am the beneficiary of my brother's estate. He owned Series E Savings Bonds that were registered with him as sole owner and no beneficiary. Can these bonds be registered in my name, thus escaping any taxation until I redeem the bonds?

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What is the maximum number of co-owners on a Savings Bond?

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Treasury Direct is an online service offered by the U.S. Treasury. You can use it to invest in Savings Bonds and other marketable Treasury securities.

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I have given my grandaughter a bond a month since 1988. I am the owner and she is the beneficiary. Now I want to drop my name from those bonds so she may be the sole owner. How is that done?

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If a Savings Bond is taken without your knowledge and cashed in by someone who is neither the owner nor co-owner of the bond, what happens to them and to the bank that cashed the bond?

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New investments in Savings Bonds in January reached a level of over $1.5 billion. This is the highest level of Savings Bond investments in a single month in over 10 years.

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How do I save my Savings Bond Wizard inventory from my current computer and reinstall it in my new computer? With 500 individual bonds I'm anxious to avoid entering all the data again.

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Interest on Savings Bonds is compounded twice a year whereas interest on savings accounts compounds daily. Will the impact of compounding more than offset the higher interest rate of Savings Bonds?

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Learn how to buy gift bonds in TreasuryDirect using the Gift Box, linked accounts for minors, or direct transfer to the recipient's TreasuryDirect account.

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I bond investments at all time high, but next rate could be low

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Did I read somewhere that it's best to buy a Savings Bond on the last day of the month?

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Add Marshall Loeb, former editor of Fortune, Money, and Columbia Journalism Review, to the financial advisors who like I bonds.

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So if I have I bonds that are over a year old and the next I bond inflation rate does come in at 0%, would it make more sense to wait three months, then cash them in? Or should I hang on for another six months to see if the CPI increases?

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What is a living trust? What is probate? What are the problems of living trusts? How do Saving Bonds fit into all this? What about about estate taxes?

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