Ah, ya @Old_Joe Agreement to the max.
How many of this type of write might one expect to find on any given day????
10, 20, 50, 100........???????????????????

@Old_Skeet: I recently came across article that stated only 25 % of investor have a plan !
I guess I'm not one of them.
You stated, "In addition, cash helps stabelize a portfolio during stock market volatility. Example of investments held in this area are cash savings, money market mutual funds and CD's."
Yes ,but in a rising market it slows your returns down !!
I've seen that happen in my accounts.
Age, health, amount of assets, & income all play a large part in how one invests !
Have a good day, Derf

Maybe just speculations but we never know
Few months ago many pundits state DOWS would reach 30000s by yr end
Hopefully DT wil change all that
Https://www-marketwatch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/6D95C82E-C8D9-11E9-8560-96BBE75E629A?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQEKAFwAQ==#aoh=15669545934772&referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s&ampshare=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-lehman-like-market-disaster-could-happen-this-week-analyst-warns-2019-08-27
A ‘Lehman-like’ market disaster could happen this week, analyst warns

Hi sma3: Not taking issue with your comment. Though, I'm finding that GVDSX's inception date being 1/30/2017. So not sure where you came up with a five year retrun for it. Also, VWINX is a hybrid fund consisting mostly of stocks and bonds along with some cash. While SVAAX and GVDSX are all equity funds. As such ... you'd think that VWINX would have the higher yield? But, not so as VWINX has a yield of 2.91% while SVAAX and GVDSX have a yield of 3.52% and 4.02% respectively as per M*.
VWINX has been a good performer with a ten year average return of about 8.1% as compaired to SVAAX's ten year return of 10.25%. Again, GVDSX is a relative new fund that does not yet have a three year history. But, from my perspective, this goes to show that over the long run most equity income stock funds will out perform most hybrid income funds such as VWINX. What they seem to have in common is that they are advertised as income generating funds.
Kind'a like compairing apples to oranges and even to tomatoes even though two are of the fruit family and one is a vegtable.
From my perspective, to have a good diversified portfolio you need some of each.

@Patrick1: For your information , here is a recent Barron's article on convertibles.
regards,
Ted
https://www.barrons.com/articles/as-uncertainty-rises-investors-may-seek-the-defensive-attributes-of-convertible-bonds-51566559802

All I have to say after reading the article is that I admire the framers of our constitution even more. Limiting the president to a 4 year term might limit the harm she or he could inflict, while allowing a successful performer to repeat their success.

Just a note, term limits weren't setup by the framers. That was introduced in the 22nd amendment. In fact the framers actually rejected the idea of term limits
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3329550?mag=how-fdrs-presidency-inspired-term-limits&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
now if we could only extend this idea to congress...

Andrew Foster is another manager who went out on his own, with a lot of hype, and failed to match the performance of the fund he left. MAPIX is up 56% since March 2012; SFGIX is up 35%. For the last five years, MAPIX is up 18.43 %; SFGIX is up 6.51%. The fund family ,and its resources, may be more important than its famed managers.

FYI: (Slide mouse to 17:20 minutes for Andrew Foster interview.)
Andrew Foster of Seafarer Capital Partners said that trade and tariff wars have not stopped growth in emerging markets, but they have exacerbated a slowing trend, particularly in China, that will make developing and emerging markets harder to profit from in the near future. Foster noted that valuations in emerging markets are reasonable, but without growth to help drive the market, investors should expect muted returns from emerging markets for the long-term future. Also on the show, Greg McBride of Bankrate.com talks about how many workers are not increasing their set asides to retirement plans, Sam McBride of NewConstructs.com -- no relation -- discusses a stock that is headed for trouble and Greg Woodard of Manning and Napier covers stocks in the Market Cal
Regards,
Ted
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/moneylife-with-chuck-jaffe/e/63468599?autoplay=true
M* Snapshot SFGIX:
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/sfgix/quote
M* Snapshot SFVLX:
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/sfvlx/quote

Best Blue-Chip Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019
https://money.usnews.com/investing/stock-market-news/slideshows/the-best-blue-chip-stocks-to-buy-for-the-rest-of-the-year
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Aug. 26, 2019
Today's Big Idea
Best Blue-Chip Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019
With 10-year Treasurys yielding just 1.6%, conservative investors have few options in the stock market today. Proven large-cap stocks with robust business models are a solid choice for investors.
Here are seven of the best blue-chip stocks to buy for the rest of 2019.
1. Target Corp. (ticker: TGT). While the terms “Target” and “robust business model” might not bubble into consciousness simultaneously, perhaps they should. The big-box retailer is coming off a blockbuster second quarter in which online sales jumped 34%, earnings per share advanced 20%, and management raised full-year EPS forecasts.
2. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). Johnson & Johnson has been considered a reliable blue-chip stock for over a century, and if it weren’t for a stronger dollar, sales would be rising in the mid-single digits internationally right now. JNJ shares offer a 2.9% dividend. – John Divine
Target Corp. (TGT)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B, BRK.A)
Walmart (WMT)
AT&T (T)
PepsiCo (PEP)
McDonald’s Corp. (MCD)
1290 Diversified Bond Fund TNUAX
$62.3M
6.61%
1290 DoubleLine Dynamic Allocation Fund TNXAX
$60.5M
4.32%
1290 GAMCO Small/Mid Cap Value Fund TNVAX
$101.9M
-6.64%
1290 Global Talents Fund TNYAX
$27.5M
-10.23%
1290 High Yield Bond Fund TNHAX
$35.1M
4.74%
1290 Low Volatility Global Equity Fund TNZIX
$3.4M
5.08%
1290 Multi-Alternative Strategies Fund TNMAX
$18.6M
-2.28%
1290 Retirement 2020 Fund TNIIX
$10.6M
4.37%
1290 Retirement 2025 Fund TNJIX
$17.7M
4.34%
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FYI: U.S. stock futures pointed to a recovery Monday morning after President Trump said China is ready to come back to the negotiating table following a phone call Sunday and the two countries will start talking very seriously.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures traded 154 points higher, indicating a rise of 208.10 points at Monday’s open, as of 3:27 a.m. ET Monday. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures also pointed to opening gains for both indexes.
Global stocks and government bond yields fell on Monday as a new escalation in commercial tensions between the world’s two largest economies cast fresh doubt on growth prospects.
Regards,
Ted
:
WSJ:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stocks-fall-as-trade-tensions-escalate-11566787858
Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-25/yen-gains-stocks-to-drop-as-trade-war-ramps-up-markets-wrap?srnd=premium
IBD:
https://www.investors.com/market-trend/stock-market-today/dow-jones-futures-china-trade-war-trumps-apple-stock-market-rally-fed-cuts-tesla-boeing-micron/
CNBC:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/25/dow-futures-drop-300-points-at-the-open-as-us-china-trade-war-escalates.html
U.K.
Closed
Europe:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-stocks/european-stocks-tumble-on-trade-war-blows-idUSKCN1VG0HQ
Asia:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/asian-markets-sink-as-trump-ratchets-up-trade-tensions-2019-08-25/print
Bonds:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/26/treasury-yields-fall-investors-flee-risk-trade-war.html
Currencies:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/26/forex-markets-us-china-trade-war-in-focus.html
Oil:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/26/oil-markets-us-china-trade-war-in-focus.html
Gold:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/26/gold-markets-us-china-trade-war-us-stocks-in-focus.html
Cuirrent Futures:
https://finviz.com/futures.ashx

Wow!
Since we seem to be operating in data free space, I do hope that anyone voting on my behalf is considering the US citizens, which includes the consumers buying cheap Chinese made products and the workers whose incomes are reduced by the pressures of the "flat world."
Personally, I'm willing to pay a few dollars more for American-made goods by American workers (curse you, Wal-Mart!, but I may buy groceries there, since I am fairly sure they didn't come from China.)
While I have no idea where Edmond gets his data that half of the "shareholders" are against supporting American workers, I want to see the survey that shows that 51% wants companies to place their interests above that of their fellow citizens.
So far as "the collectivist ideology of the 'free press' " comment [it's really hard to get the punctuation correct here], , I doubt that Jefferson, Adams, or Hamilton would have a clue what this means. BU.T, I doubt they would have regarded it as a threat to the republic

Looks like he is a winner - 3 hots a cot and $1.45 mil for 4 years of his time at some white collar country club all expenses paid.

I woke up this morning to see headlines that Tweety Amin expressed 'second thoughts' about increasing the China tarriffs. Then, 2 hours later, the WH says he meant to say he had 'second thoughts' about the percentage of the increase and that it should've been higher, and his talking heads are reinforcing that on the bobblehead shows here. If this was during market hours, we'd have seen more 500-point whipsaws in the Dow.
The pathetic thing is that Nobody. Can. Plan. Effectively. China fiasco aside, he's flailing more and more ... i.e., the economy is 'booming' and the 'best ever' but he needs the Fed to cut rates anyway. He announces, or hints of announcing, something and then needs others to clean up after him before he reverses/suspends his decision once it polls poorly. Yes, there's the usual marketplace uncertainty we all accept as investors, but we've got a whole new level of instability here -- and then factor in algos that trade off of headlines between themselves, and you have a recipe for disaster. Speaking of algos, gods help us if the idiot rambles about gun violence, war, and the markets in the same tweet.
He was actually tweeting jokes about the Dow's drop on Friday, too. Average Joe/Jane investors may be nervous about their financial well-being, college funds, retirement plans, etc, and he's totally oblivious to them -- just has to snark on his political opponents quitting the race. Because, it's all about him and being the authoritarian strongman bully.
I shudder to think what this regime would have done if they were in charge during the GFC. We'd probably still be in it, based on their current track record for effectiveness, planning, and competence. But it'd never be *his* fault, because in the world of delusion created by his liddle stable genius chosen-one mind, he can do no wrong, ever.
GRUMBLE.

more
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/new-koch
and
https://www.theonion.com/david-koch-pumps-billions-of-dollars-into-campaign-to-s-1837513455

If he signs China would not be surprise if DOWS upswing 10 to 15% in few days WEEKS... He need to be fair and compromise everyone... Which maybe very hard to do w personalities issues

The whole thing amounts to a mini-tantrum and he is angry at everybody including China who he blames them on the market and the economy on chairman Powell. The biggest mistake is the belief that lowering interest rates by 25 or 50 bp (or even 100 bp as he floated the idea early in the week) will do anything to revive the economy. Realistically there is not much left in Federal Reserve to bail out the economy, unlike the 2008 timeframe.
In the recent weeks, Friday marked third declines in S&P500 of more than 2% with the a total decline of 5.8% of the last 4 weeks. Next fight is at G7 summit.

I agree that giving money to the top tier museums is not a bad thing. But let's face it - giving money to a specific recipient in exchange for publicity is not exactly high up on Maimonides' eight levels of charitable giving. At best what you've got is trickle down culture.
Citing NYC museum admission policies, and the Met's in particular, was not the best example one might have come up with. The Met sits on public land; as a condition of that public gift, it is required to offer free admission. Until recently, "free" was interpreted as requiring at least a penny's payment from all visitors. But in early 2018, the Met started limiting "free" admission to only those visitors who could prove they were NYS residents. (Ironic that your link was to a tourist site.)
MoMA and the Guggenheim suffer no such constraints. Consequently, they charge visitors full freight; no "pay what you want" policy for them.

“We’re the only major art museum in the world that has recourse neither to mandatory admissions or significant government funding,” he said, pointing out that both the Smithsonian in Washington and the Louvre in Paris receive considerable public support. The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim already charge $25 — though, unlike the Met, they are not in city-owned buildings nor supported by taxpayer dollars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/arts/design/met-museum-admissions.html
To add to the matter of NYC, the Cooper Hewitt museum, a NYC branch of the usually free Smithsonian charges mandatory admission (except for three hours of "pay what you want" once a week). And the Met implemented the mandatory fee for out-of-towners in part because NYC had decided to spread its art dollars around more widely to enhance diversity. So NYC at least is not a local government unwilling to pay for "artsy" things. It's just more interested in supporting the arts more broadly than wealthy donors tend to do.

I would have concurred last week in the first sentence from @kings53man, but this is sobering, about self-reinforcing trade stupidities:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/23/1880993/-The-Trump-presidency-may-well-have-entered-its-endgame-today

as a 'tribute ' to the koch's read DARK MONEY by jane mayer ISBN 385535597
it will provide insight into 'well spent' money across the government, education and culture.
+1 BenWP

@MFO Members: "“He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone"
Regards,
Ted
(A Lot of people benefited from his donations)
$185 million
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
$150 million
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
$100 million
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
$100 million
New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
New York City Ballet.
$66.7 million
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
$65 million
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$35 million
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History
$15 million
Museum of Natural History in DC.
$26.5 million
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
$26.2 million
The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York
$20 million
American Museum of Natural History, New York
$20 million
Johns Hopkins University
$10 million