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Fixed Income ETF Portfolio Q3 2025: A Strategic Response to Fed Rate Cuts

The Federal Reserve is expected to deliver 50-75 basis points of cuts through the remainder of 2025, creating a more measured easing cycle than previously anticipated. This portfolio targets a 4.9% SEC yield while maintaining effective duration below 5 years and limiting maximum drawdown to acceptable levels for the adjusted rate environment.

When Safe Assets Outperform Risk: The 2025 Portfolio Playbook

For the first time since Y2K, the math has flipped. The 10-year Treasury (~4.23%) now outyields the S&P 500's forward earnings yield (4.15%), creating a negative equity risk premium, a phenomenon we've seen exactly twice in modern history, both preceding significant market resets. But here's the kicker: inflation-protected bonds (TIPS) are paying 1.94% real while equity dividends deliver -1.1% after inflation. Translation: The "risk-free" rate isn't just competitive, it's winning.