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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.
Some of these comments make me wonder if the poster read the MW article (Hulbert is a smart and prudent cookie, in my long experience of reading him) , much less the original paper, downloadable here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract…
If you compare it w FXAIX from Oct '97 to date, it all comes out about the same, Heebner slightly ahead. A 6-bagger for each, plus or minus, over a quarter-century. With enormous ups and downs for CGMFX. I went in earlyish and sold during one big ru…
yes, but (only) a shade worse than TRP and FPA ytd
I mentioned only because you spoke of improvement in and interest in swinging toward FI (not sure I agree)
>> ... be careful. The downturn could go on for a number of years. (But might not). Don’t think you know all the answers. Nobody does.
love it, simply love it
[[edited to add /sarc tag]]
big loss; closing date is 23 Sept, no 'may' to it, it appears;
no tax consequences (Roth ira)
just looking for two and more cents about bailing Tues morning, or later on
already hold lots of VONG; this was just play around the edges
@hank I'm 73 and probably have more than enough to live rather fine for the remainder of my life.
Do you have heirs? If this really the case, why not stick all of your leftover moneys into VONE or your equivalent choice? And then seldom look at or …
David Giroux of PRWCX is only 47! He started with the fund when he was just 31 and for years people said that he was young and inexperienced but he showed them all.
Hard to imagine anyone savvy would say such a thing; same age as Danoff and Tilling…
PRWCX and DODBX have had notable comparatively strong ytd (and beyond) performance. I have been interested in the meh performance of JABAX, FPACX, FBALX, CBALX (an underappreciated fund, like FBALX and often enough better), and most of all FMSDX, wh…
Schrager is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute-a right-wing think tank, so there's your explanation !
yeah, she is a conservative (whatever that means anymore) macro economist, well-trained, but also in the past an FA, starting w DFA.
She …
@davidrmoran It depends on how target date funds mentioned in the piece allocate to short-term bond funds. [[my bf]] Vanguard is the largest target date fund manager. It allocates its short-term bond exposure for retirees in its target date funds to…
@LewisBraham
>> I imagine many workers are thankful they owned the short rather than long-term bonds right now. Also, short term bonds adjust to inflation and interest rate increases more quickly than long.
uh
Possibly individual bonds, if…
10m-old troll piece from the Hill, yawn
... penned by this lower-tier rightwinger:
https://www.rstreet.org/team/alex-j-pollock/
whose name I knew, sort of, from his mortgage-doc simplification initiative.
"His interests include ... the pursuit …
Crash, send them email noting that your cancel order was submitted 9:15a ET or whatever it was and see what they say, and report back.
Many times over the year with both ML and Fidelity I have submitted buy / sell orders and canceled within the la…
:)
(After 57y here I believe I have yet to develop a proper Masshole accent ('chuhch'), although my LBirdlike buckeye one ('sheeit') is waned. I do say 'roof' to rhyme with 'poof' and on two recent trips to the Midwest was thrilled to hear radio a…
yes, ty
See a quarter of the way down the page:
https://www.thestreet.com/etffocus/dividend-ideas/3-dividend-etfs-3-yields-volatility-protection
(people, if no 'r' in name, response is not flagged for me)
"His original paper was based on just two asset classes, intermediate-term Treasury bonds and large-cap stocks. He has since concluded that by adding a third asset class, small-cap stocks, investors could safely withdraw as much as 4.5% annually."
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ancient bill appears to be in subcommittee:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2202?s=1&r=5
like air pockets but not quite
https://www.propublica.org/article/scientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking
(old…
