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davidrmoran
I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
Yeah, I am a little surprised at the degree to which I feel more content from having gone for equity funds all into DSENX (12% ytd) plus handfuls of 2-3 others.
Good to know BoA are so bad. I don't keep up. I could not deal w WF ever. BoA treats me v well, including or especially the local branches in-person c/s, and way more cheaply (rates etc) than other banks around here, and including credit unions. Plu…
Well, be sure to always let the perfect be the defeater of the good. Maybe Maimonides said that as well. Somehow doubt it, as he was also a practical guy sometimes.
I myself can regularly tell the difference b/w actual ads and corporate sponsorship…
Nah, totally luck of the buy, decades ago.
I do enjoy the company's parties.
Enjoy many of the people hardly more or less than neighbors in Waltham and Somerville long ago :) .
I think namedropping means you know them. Would be cool if I played …
Wait, whose point are you making??
Romney was weak (worse than weak, but putting it nicely) in any number of respects, and latterly has become rehabbed into this ersatz statesman quite by default.
Five years after your article, Baker has brought t…
Right, who says that? Howie?
Wonder why GE ever made its decision other than the $ incentives.
Answer here:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/07/29/these-tech-execs-explain-why-they-moved-their-companies-boston/9sDaU4eCrlLneQgPldF4MI/stor…
@Crash,
Can't tell if you are genuinely curious about the answer, but this might be of interest, from a year and a half ago:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate/
and Danoff my neighbor in Weston, I believe, with Abby in Milton.
Tillinghast lives like 2-3 blocks from KHeebner, which for some reason always seemed amazing to me.
No, of course not; I was comparing it with other real good mutual funds, as one should. Which it also outperforms iff you go back to its inception --- it had tremendous outperformance 1990-98. But look at its $10k growth for the last 20/15/10/5/3y e…
Even going by investing topics only, M* discussions in very general terms stay more on point and are specific, informed, brief, and sophisticated, like the best of msf, Bob, Lewis, fundalarm, Ted (sometimes), and a few others here (apologies to thos…
I find totally the opposite, at least the substantive, analytic, on-point brief comments to short articles. yogibearbull et alia. M* responds and corrects some of the time too. A true marketplace of ideas.
E.g., just two, almost at random:
http://n…
>> still not that hard for fund managers to outperform the market by enough to cover expenses
that seems remarkable to me, depending on how big the universe of such managers is / what the definition of hard is
@VF
>> This must be a good one.
It is a good outfit, but, as msf pointed out, excessively expensive.
Some more checking resources:
https://www.thebalance.com/financial-advistors-credentials-2388438
http://www.campaignforinvestors.org/have…
Hi msf,
Thanks for your detailed review of my earlier postings. I surely do not remember them. I do like the DALBAR summaries. They do useful work.
You have completely missed the point and are on autopilot in generic self-defense mode:
See, e.g…
? First link works for me. Yours is a third. Thought I had enough.
Was not making a disputatious point, was saying only that we have lots of Sb. I know nothing about Sb Aussie failures. 'I think you mean' (without knowing it) that DD put a real den…
>> they developed their retail coffee market before Starbucks
The same is true of Massachusetts, but there are puhlenty of Starbucks around here.
These are interesting, a few years old though:
http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/specials/s…
haha, call me Mr Timing
>> time to bail
>> must chew
Since I wrote the above, a only few days ago, PDI is down significantly; don't believe the dividends are going to make it up.
