As you allocate more of your investment portfolio to bonds, you reduce your exposure to interest rate risk, but increase your exposure to market risk.

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Allocating more of your investment portfolio to bonds typically reduces your exposure to market risk (volatility of the stock market) but increases your exposure to interest rate risk (the risk that rising interest rates will cause the value of bonds to decline).

As You Allocate More of Your Investment Portfolio to Bonds