William Blair to liquidate three bond funds Something that pops out when one looks at these funds is that they all had management overhauls within the past couple of
years. M* lists each fund's average manager tenure as just one year. The former managers of these three funds, Christopher Vincent and Paul Sularz (all but BIFIX) appear to have retired in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
William Blair rebooted its fixed income program. It hired Ruta Ziverte in 2019 to "develop[] and execute[] [its] fixed-income growth strategy (in conjunction with other members of the team), team leadership, and select portfolio management." (
From M*). One might surmise that the company wasn't thrilled with the short term progress and decided to pull the plug on this relatively small corner of the company (no fund with over $300M AUM).
Until it was shut down in Nov. 2015 the company did have a MMF - Ready Reserves Fund (RRFXX / WBRXX). Kathleen M. Lynch, the new lead manager of WBLIX co-managed Ready Reserves from 2010 until its demise in 2015; the aforementioned Vincent was the lead manager since 2003. The
fund's inception was June 22, 1988.
The Macro Allocation Fund (WMCIX / WMCNX) has been co-managed by the same two people, Singer and Clarke, since its inception in 2011. The fund does not have a manager dedicated to fixed income. Between 2011 and 2016, Singer and Clarke co-managed PMFIX (as part of a team with more senior managers).
WhassUp (This Year)? @BenWP, short-term nature of futures leads to high realized gains (and distributions) in strong
years. There may be some loss-carryovers to offset those. But the ETF structure alone isn't any help in this case.
TRP ridiculousness Were you asking Fidelity to transfer cash (ACH) from a mutual fund position at T. Rowe Price, as opposed to transferring money from a TRP cash (brokerage transaction/core) account?
Transferring cash from a mutual fund would trigger a redemption, and for that a paper form might be required. Even in this event, I would expect the transfer of the cash itself to go electronically.
If that was the situation, you should be able to effect an ACH transfer by directing T. Rowe Price to sell shares (even if the fund is a MMF) and to send the proceeds to your "bank". For Fidelity, you would provide a UMB Bank routing number and Fidelity brokerage account number.
It's been a few years since I moved cash between Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, but when I did, I initiated the transfers on the TRP side.
Bearish on Bonds / a poignant comment ….. ding. ring that bell.
I personally find myself in midstream at the moment, wanting to stick to my own plan, after a fashion--- while at the same time feeling the need to adjust, without throwing the plan out the window... I don't want to lose the reduced volatility provided by bonds, but don't want the bonds to drag me down like an anchor, either. Important, I think, to keep a perspective beyond the moment. I've been slightly overweight in bonds for 2-3 years, now... That weighting has kept my (unrealized) losses so far in 2022 from matching the major stock indices. Still not too much pain.
Does the National Debt Matter? An immigrant, a worker and a banker are sitting at the table with 10 cookies. The banker takes 9 and then tells the worker "watch out, the immigrant is going to steal your cookie".
The above pretty much encapsulates the policies of one major political party (and it has worked phenomenally well over the past 6 years)
WhassUp (This Year)? Yes K-1's are more work but I have been using Turbo Tax for years and it handles K-1's like waffles handle maple syrup. Zero problems or issues.
WhassUp (This Year)? @MikeM: I assume you will receive a K-1 form from DB for the 2021 tax year. I do my own taxes, so I’m curious.
I subscribe to a stock picking newsletter that has been advocating for DBA and DBC over the last few
years. It has turned out be be good advice, but only since the beginning of 2021. You appear to have gotten in at the right moment.
Does the National Debt Matter? @shipwreckedandalone et al
A lot of data points at the below link, which hasn't been posted for
years at MFO. Clickable internal links at the site for other data. EXAMPLE: top right corner has debt clock time machine that may be selected for other year dates. Other data may be hovered upon to see source, etc. Note: all data presumed accurate.
U.S. debt clock realtime
Does the National Debt Matter? Yes it does. In the worst case scenario....rates rise substantially...and buyers of long term debt come to believe their principal may not be returned in 30 years due to already bloated debt levels ....thus they seek higher safety. Last I checked Fed Debt = $230,000 for each US taxpayer plus interest.
WhassUp (This Year)? Not much as most everyone knows. I reviewed my TIAA account and was surprised to find that the only fund available to me (including the MMF) that is up YTD is Real Estate. Not only is it up about 1.64% YTD, but it clocked +17.8% for the past year. Two years ago my advisor had me dump my modest holding on the assumption that urban RE would suffer permanent damage from the pandemic.
A quick look at mainstream RE ETFs revealed -8 to -10% losses YTD. QREARX is an interval fund and I believe many of its holdings are commercial properties that TIAA itself owns in part or in whole. Anyone here with RE funds that are up?
FPA semi annual Also, fiscal
years can have any starting and ending date. But if one hitches one's horse to a calendar year, then one is stuck with, well, the calendar year. So the latter half semiannual (calendar) 2021 would thus cover July-Dec 2021.
Like in this year & day, why can't this be published by 01/01/2022Complain to the SEC. Generally these forms are due in paper form 60 days after the end of the periods they cover:
Form N-30D and N-CSR due to be printed and mailed 60 days following the end of each half-year by investment companies; the EDGAR filing is due 10 days after the actual mailing date
Form N-Q due 60 days after 1st and 3rd fiscal quarter-end
https://www.broadridge.com/resource/corporate-issuer/edgar-filing-calendar?
Inflation: Rip or Ripple Dan Price, CEO and founder of credit card processing company Gravity Payments:
Coca-Cola: there's nothing we can do, we have to raise prices.
Also Coca-Cola: our profit is up 65% in a year, we spent $68 billion on dividends / stock buybacks in a decade, laid off 12% of staff in the pandemic and CEO pay went up 70% in 2 years to $18.7M.Granularity, and possible decreasing rate:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf
More reasons to leave Vanguard @sma3: I had a similar experience when I'd had enough and was leaving V. for Fidelity, ~ 8
years ago. Like Sven said, It was an admiral shares fund that caused the problem and held up the transfer. Took days and days and more than a few calls, but I finally got out of there with the cash after selling the fund.
(To be clear, the problem wasn't the fund transfer itself, it was how long the account was frozen, and how CSRs said it'd be fixed tomorrow or the next day as the days dragged on.)
Thankfully that was the final act of the Vanguard drama for me.
Federal Open Mouth Committee Fed’s Brainard Calls for 1% Rate Hike By JulyFeb 10 (Reuters) - “St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Thursday that he has become "dramatically" more hawkish in light of the hottest inflation reading in nearly 40 years, and he now wants a full percentage point of interest rate hikes over the next three U.S. central bank policy meetings.
“Within minutes, Bullard's view became the market's view, with rate futures contracts now fully pricing an increase in the Fed's target range for its policy rate to 1%-1.25% by the end of its policy meeting in June, with some bets on an even steeper rate hike path.”Reuters