We've been with Ally for 10 years and never had a single complaint about them. Customer service is available 24/7 and everyone speaks intelligible English.
Just buy them directly from Treasury. The Treasury Direct website won't win any awards for user friendliness, but it's not difficult to set up an account, the search function is very good for finding answers and it's a full service website. And of course there are a zillion resources available on the Internet.
I spoke to Fidelity about buying T-bills or bonds through them and my recollection is that there are two ways to do it, one involves fees and one doesn't. I figured for the same effort it would take to fully understand the difference, I could probably figure out the Treasury Direct site and I was correct about that.
The idea is to balance risk and get a better return than what my bank offer. UST Direct accomplish that with one stop shopping. You get a better rate and don't have to spend ungodly amounts of time chasing rates at unknown banks all over the country.
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Is this callable? Can you add funds after initial deposit? Sorry couldn't find this info anywhere on the site.
Since this is no penalty CD. You can Withdraw the money anytime. You will not be able to add the funds after the initial deposit. You will need to create a new CD with the latest interest rate.
I still don't understand why you would do a CD when you can just park money in a money market. I use my fidelity account, SPAXX money market is at 5%. Money can get pulled anytime and put into my savings account locally. No penalties.
6 month tbill is sitting at 5.15% and state tax free. Makes it the equivalent of roughly a 5.4% CD in most states. Shorter duration, and rates won't be going up in the future, so you decide which is better
I did this one and the ally deal. Both rates are still currently higher than my savings account. I made maybe an extra $50. Not much, but its something. I would be interested in trying the t bills. Ally allows you to roll over into a new cd when the other one ends and gives a .05 extra bonus.
I have a 5% 12-month share certificate from Suncoast Credit Union that I can add to all throughout the period (called smart certificate). There is a 90 day penalty on the withdrawal amount if taken but I like the flexibility of adding more to it at the same locked in rate. There are higher out there but I haven't seen anything higher where you can continuously add funds to it. I actually prefer the penalty as it'll refrain me from wanting to touch these funds.
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I spoke to Fidelity about buying T-bills or bonds through them and my recollection is that there are two ways to do it, one involves fees and one doesn't. I figured for the same effort it would take to fully understand the difference, I could probably figure out the Treasury Direct site and I was correct about that.
The idea is to balance risk and get a better return than what my bank offer. UST Direct accomplish that with one stop shopping. You get a better rate and don't have to spend ungodly amounts of time chasing rates at unknown banks all over the country.
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Can you not see link says Savings/ money market what does that look like
Isn't 5.25% for 15mos the current best no-penalty?
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