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Aye, Scott, there's the rub.... where to invest in a market I don't understand at all. Just seems to me that all the U.S. economy negatives occurring and continuing for years now and with absolutely no signs that we will ever again actually have re…
Thanks for your explanation, BRBond. Sounds like I'm back to my original main investment criteria of finding the best mutual fund managers who understand all this much better than I do.
Thanks for your comments, fundalarm, it's so great that you are now able (and willing) to participate so we can hear your opinions!
If I may ask, what styles/sectors and/or specific mutual funds do you feel will be the most protective considering…
Thanks so much for your usual very prompt and informative help in answering my questions! I do plan on keeping MAPIX in our accounts as a long-term hold, but am considering sale in one of my Mom's trusts as an added buffer of more short-term emer…
Aye...there's the rub "if you know what you're doing". I checked a couple of your entries above....all Greek to me, but was interesting to look at anyway.
Hi, Investor, I'm confused at your response. I did install update, unchecked "Enable Hardware Acceleration" as I indicated above.....and IT WORKED - problem seems to be fixed, thanks to you! I must have garbled my response and not been very clear…
I have checked out - and saved as "Favorites" over 100 links I checked out from Forum members. Found lots of great ones - but only problem is not enough time to check them regularly, even if I wanted to spend my life that way.
But one of the sugge…
Hope you get lots of responses to this one, Scott. I know many of us have sizeable percentage in fixed income who are a little worried how they will fare with upcoming economy.
YOU'RE A GENIUS, INVESTOR!!! THE NEW LINK THERE WORKS! But I just changed 2 things, and it just occurred to me that maybe it was your new link that my computer liked better - rather than the changes I just made. When I used your link to check Fla…
Thanks so much, Investor. Once again, you've helped me with very detailed information that I can follow up on to further narrow down where the problem is.
I suspected as much re Flash being the problem. I'm very uncomfortable with computer hard…
Thanks, Old Joe. Since I got further with Firefox than IE7 (by getting message need to upgrade Flash), it does seem that Flash is the problem as it crashed when I upgraded. I did search for alternatives to Flash on the web, but couldn't find much …
Thanks, Accipiter. I laughed at your first suggestion - would solve the problem but deprive me of video watching.
I think I'll have my tech guy check this out and fix it for me, if possible.
You're absolutely right, Ooby. I would never make investment decisions on such short-term returns. By I learned quite a bit watching daily returns as to how each fund reacts during daily ups or downs as there is generally a consistency which helps…
Thanks for your input, Ooby. It will be interesting to see how these do in upcoming economy. But I try to stay away from load funds and I use WEFIX (Weitz Short-Intermediate) as my lowest volatility fund that I've never worried about. Also don't …
Thanks, Hank, for your input and examples of funds. I like RPSIX - have added that to my "check out further" test Portfolio.
I may have confused everyone with my comments. I am responsible for only a few of my Mom's investment Portfolios - but al…
Thank you for your follow-up and links, Investor. I have printed and saved both. In Nov, 2009, I printed out Merriman's "the Perfect Portfolio" (probably your link also) with a note to myself "READ SOON!". Put it on top of my "Read Next Free Chan…
Thanks for your explanation, msf. That's why I wish that "Conservative Allocation" funds who are able to invest in combination of stocks and bonds (depending upon the current economic conditions) had been performing a lot better during the down tim…
Sounds like interesting video, Scott - BUT crashed my computer when I tried to play. Hope that will be one of the problems fixed when I install Foxfire.
Thanks so much for your response, Greg. Your conclusions on my situation and intents are exactly right. Sounds like you are in a very similar position, especially in having to consider the previously unheard of possibility that long-term care fund…
Thanks for your follow-up, Scott, lots of helpful information. When I first started learning about investments 1+ years ago, TIPS seemed like a "must have" type investment. I'm keeping track of a few possible near future (PRRDX, HARRX and STPZ) - …
Very interesting, Scott. I think a huge difference in how this Country will go forward depends almost entirely on which party (if any) holds strong majority next time around. I just read article on California City of Bell - who was praised for inn…
Thanks, MJG, for your very interesting comments and links. I LOVE the Merriman chart showing hypothetical 40 years of returns (with Annualized Return for each) under different asset allocations! 100% Equity is the winner over that period of time w…
Thanks for your follow-up, Investor. But you're wrong there - at least in my case. The great thing about this Forum (and all the links and other material I've read over the last year) is that I now AM able to tell almost exactly how each of my fun…
Thank you, John. I really miss Fundmental and am especially saddened as I think the only reason he would not at least give a "goodbye-off to do other things" comment would be because he became very ill.
I put all of Fundmentals portfolios in M*. …
Thanks for your input, Hank. It is scary to think that going to money markets/cd's with their nonexistent returns is the only really safe way to protect ones self. But, since inflation seems to be guaranteed, until those rates start increasing to …
Thanks, Scott. I am so pleased that, after watching daily returns of lots of test funds (as well as my own) for over a year now (and checking those funds over a 10-year period), I am finally able to come pretty close to knowing how well each of my …
Thanks so much for your input, Investor. But I'm confused at your response (very tired so that could be my problem). The funds I mentioned adding to all either gained (or lost very little) in 2008 market - so I am looking to find funds that are li…
Thanks, Matt, nice to hear from you again. I'm much more conservative than 50/50. Only have 15% or so in U.S. equity funds. Since I'm more than happy with 4% YTD and 13% 12 months return so far, I don't need to go for higher gains - am just hopin…
Thanks so much, Scott, for your continuing great responses! Always informative and interesting.
I don't think I'm ready for the London market yet. I sold SCPZF quite a while ago - but only because M* wouldn't track continuing gains/losses so th…
I own 2% in this fund and have been happy with this small amount in it. It is the only World Stock Fund among the ones I am tracking that has gained week, month, 3 month and YTD.
That's nice of you to credit me with any answers, Old Joe. But I just ask the questions - it's people like Investor, Falcoln, Scott, msf, Catch, Rono, Mark, Bob++++ who have the knowledge and generosity to answer them.
Thanks for your follow-up, Investor. I'll give Firefox a try in a couple weeks when things calm down a little. If you're still reading this, can you tell me what Ad blocker you are adding to your Firefox?
P.S. Think my connectivity problems are…
Thanks for the tips on possible problems, Investor. My computer is only a couple years old, has lots of memory.... but I guess that's outdated now. I've read that there are quite a few browsers much better than IE7 - my printouts of ones to try ar…
