Vanguard eliminates fee for buying Treasuries

[rhymenocerous]

Saw this on the Boglehead form, and I thought I'd link it here as well.  Since most of my retirement funds are with VG, I seriously think I will just buy 30 year Treasuries on the secondary market now.

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... t-01032012
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/whatwe ... ommissions

[craigr]

Saw this on the Boglehead form, and I thought I'd link it here as well.  Since most of my retirement funds are with VG, I seriously think I will just buy 30 year Treasuries on the secondary market now.

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... t-01032012
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/whatwe ... ommissions

Great news! Now there is no reason not to own bonds directly which is the best way to hold them for the Permanent Portfolio. Thanks Vanguard!

[Lone Wolf]

Brilliant!  Now with two great brokerages (Vanguard and Fidelity) both offering free Treasury trades we've got even further opportunities to diversify between institutions.

[patrickjhall]

Funny. I traded a large chunk out of TLT at Vanguard and rolled it over to Fidelity to own LTT's directly about 2 months ago - I was sold on it by Gumby's Tutorial - http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/ht ... ic.php?t=0 . Guess this messageboard caused a ripple in Vanguard's holdings 

[dualstow]

Saw this on the Boglehead form, and I thought I'd link it here as well.  Since most of my retirement funds are with VG, I seriously think I will just buy 30 year Treasuries on the secondary market now.

https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insigh ... t-01032012
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/whatwe ... ommissions

Excellent news!