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View from Tampabay (courtesy of morningstar xray):
*You have a lot of exposure to sectors marked by this icon. You should take special note of your large position in healthcare stocks. Healthcare issues generally offer good growth potential but come…
Everytime I hear the word "PRO" referring to a profession ...I worry....
Like the Gypsy fortune tellers who got raided by the Police and arrested, they said "they didn't see it coming".....
Ted, you miss the point (as usual).... with Vanguard you can buy their funds, any stock in the market ($7.00 fee) any other fund (worth buying), any ETF, any bond fund, and they will keep all in one portfolio for you....and any Tax, or record keepin…
Quit his job, no steady income (w2s), suspect credit...three strikes Ben your 0ut............or maybe house already over financed (known as underwater)
Depends, what year do you anticipate Healthcare Costs to go down? and Healthcare companies and Drug Companies to stop making big profits? That could be a good year to stop investing in Healthcare...till then just riding the waves...
Lots of concern among Vanguard investors when Ed Owens Retired, but I was sure Jean Hynes (current manager) could continue the funds success, because I felt she was doing most of the "heavy lifting" anyway. Good Move, worked out.
Wish Kris Jenner wo…
One of the Best, thank You Vanguard....
Performance VGHCX More...
Expense; 0.35%
1 Yr +19.68
3 Yr +32.5
5 Yr* +27.75
10 Yr +12.69
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Growth of 10,000 11,968 10,096 13,252 20,851 25,276 33,021 (10yr)
I wish one person (anyone) would have said to me, "Son what you need to do is buy ONE share of your favorite company, ie MCD, AT&T,Coke or later Walmart EVERY pay check, and watch your money and your company grow, by the time you are 40 somethin…
Mona, nice to have you following me as will most of the other Vanguard groupies if they where as smart as you......"Facts mam 0nly the facts" from what old police show?, still true today!
MJG
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Hi Tampabay,
"Sorry to learn that your situation is such that you have severely constrained options relative to active/passive fund decision-making and changes."
Who made it "personal"? I don't care what HIS opinion…
Mona, love you, but you know my portfoilio by heart by know, but I'm going to give MJG MY Stock Sector| Holdings Detail Vs. the S&P (per Morningstar)
Portfolio Tampabay
(% of Stocks sector) vs S&P 500 (%)
Tampabay …
Actually ETF are not "true index' investments, most have selection committees and set % of certain holdings as they want, they certainly have lower fees and no commissions, so must be considered as cost competition to True blanket index funds.
I o…
Portfolio Manager : morningstar
Tampabay
Fees & Expenses | Holdings Detail
Average Mutual Fund Expense Ratio (%)
0.37
Expense Ratio of Similarly Weighted
Hypothetical Portfolio (%) 1.21
The mutual funds in your portfolio tend…
That's EXACTLY my point! guys like Monte Carlo read articles and believe them as gospel, then they want to pass it on as GOOD Advice, I think its misleading to dangerous
MGL:Here Mister Monte Carlo," I read it so it must be true"
Heres what I pay some of the BEST managers & Some ETFs in the Business:
0.10%,0.14%0.14%, 0.15%,0.17%,0.18%,0.23%,0.25%,0.26%,0.35% 0.38%,0,50%,0.71%,0.74%
my average cost per fund/E…
Have you been to a sears store lately? For what,to buy a wrench or a TV, or Refrigerator?
Think you can shop price anywhere on their merchandise..so now what Sears? Profitability is going where?
