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davidrmoran
Too cynical for me, and not in accord with my (long) experience in business or finance.
Wondering if you know many fund managers; I do a few.
All my questions are serious, although you may be one who simply enjoys or automatically leans toward impugning; interesting you take an assertion being challenged as being combatted.
Whatever. You wrote what you wrote. I called you on it. That's all.
Mark, rtop
YBB, I have not checked other JPM etfs, but that's a good idea. I am just so flabbergasted at this from ML that (as so often happens) I look (again) for costless ways to leave them and move more to Fido. (Costless meaning giving up bene…
Yes, that's true- I'm just saying that if JPM can save 10¢ they will, so expect it.
OJ, come on, Jamie D has explained how tfg did so much ‘sort of right’
@Old_Joe:
>>Idle cash at Fido is swept into a fund which earns about 5% right now.
Yeah, my accounts:
FIDELITY GOVERNMENT CASH RESERVES (FDRXX) is currently 4.96% while FIDELITY GOVERNMENT MONEY MARKET (SPAXX) is currently 4.97%
@msf:
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When I sell a holding or transfer money into Fido brokerage or retirement account, it goes into a 5% money market fund automatically; perhaps this was something I set up manually
glad to hear that
here is another cool Krug against-the-grain piece, just for kicks, and the hotdog-buns link at the bottom leds to still another (subtle args!)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/opinion/trump-immigration-lump-of-labor.html
Total nut is grown 0.3%.
FMSDX up a half percent, while all else --- BSV, CCOR (what a goddamn dog), BND, VGIT, STIP --- is barely flat or down over a percent, ffs.
JQUA, which I do not have nearly enough of, up 4.7%.
SP500 up 4%, of course.
Yeah, this is pretty much how I approach it as well although now that cash earns 5% I’m more comfortable having quite a bit in MM funds and especially since Merrill lets you into Fidelity funds that are otherwise high minimum.
But I’ve never been a…
then and now, supply chains, shipping, job churn, lags, and core harmonization:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opinion/red-sea-houthis-shipping-inflation.html
>> Merely showing that ... a typical balanced fund outperformed the market is not sufficient to show that the bond sleeve helped.
Could you elaborate on this a bit? Not seeing how it could not; sorry. Or is it that specific stockpicking did …
FPURX from Jan '73 to summer '82, Ray Gun era, way more than doubles. Granted the end period was a time of 15% inflation
\\\ Inflation in 1974 (the era of Watergate and Whip Inflation Now) was about the same as inflation in 1980 - a shade over 12%.…
I am confused about Hulbert's '70s-'80s assertion, even though (perhaps because) I lived through it, from lowly Catholic-schoolteacher to tech writer w new family in thriving CE.
FPURX from Jan '73 to summer '82, Ray Gun era, way more than doubles…
\\\ Other times stocks will lag bonds, for decades.
>> When was that, and why was it? The 'decades' part.
Answered my own question, sort of, if not exactly the 'decades' quantity.
I knew that for the period Jan 2000 - Jan 2010 SP500 was fla…
So ... the bottom line is that there is no broad advice which can be taken as generally helpful for all time? Uh, okay.
>> Other times stocks will lag bonds, for decades.
When was that, and why was it? The 'decades' part.
I've been studyi…
FYI, I purchased shares in PRCFX 12/8/23 and 1/4/24 through Fidelity. Both transactions took 3-4 days to settle. I’ve never had a fund purchase take so long to settle since I’ve been doing transactions online. I plan …
So when were the settlement d…
... when I bought Fidelity’s TIPs index fund several years ago. I thought it would protect a portion of my portfolio from inflation spikes. It did just the opposite. It was my worst performing bond fund when the Fed started raising interest rates. …
I have zero problem with his hardcore public / semipublic Christianity, or any other hardcore professions of faith, other faiths, other than what he actually says here, talking to the press, which is why I underlined it.
"I am this kind of believe…
[jeff wrona]] >> Most importantly, if you’re a follower of Jesus, the Christ, you want the person investing your money to be likeminded; someone who believes in the One so unmovable and so unshakable that when times of turmoil come, and they w…
Inker's thoughts seem fatuous to me, but truly puzzling is no mention by anyone here of JQUA, which (for 3y anyway) outperforms those mentioned (I think) and with lower UI.
Again, what @Tarwheel said.
I have a v large chunk in it and it is still down -8%.
The hope is to get out of it this year and move, at least in part, into FPACX over time.
