Bonds vs bond funds for rebalancing stocks

Investing / Portfolios
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Especially during market bears, equity loses value and it is a good time to purchase more of it.
It seems that the price of bond funds recovers more slowly from falls due to interest rate increases (source).
Therefore, if I need to rebalance by selling part of my bond fund but the price has not recovered yet, I realize a loss.

On the other hand, bonds are expensive when stocks are cheap, so I shouldn’t really worry. Except correlation increases with high inflation + interest rates (or low inflation + interest rates)!

So, between individual bonds and bond funds, which would you hold in your portfolio?

2

individual bonds if you want to buy and hold to maturity.

bond funds for liquidity and easy buying and selling for re-balancing and temporary parking of cash.

3

So you always hold individual bonds for every purpose, also selling for rebalancing?

Can you share your reasons against bond funds?

4

sorry. there was a typo in my 2nd sentence.

it was supposed to say “bond funds for liquidity and easy buying and selling”