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MJG, always available to help investors in "learning mode.
Short take don't have time for Full course. Your Primary Focus for investing in Mutual Funds IS The FUND MANAGER,
Imagine you are running a Business (if you can) do you hire the best employ…
“Investors should make expense ratios a primary test in fund selection. They are still the most dependable predictor of performance. Start by focusing on funds in the cheapest or two cheapest quintiles, and you'll be on the path to success.”
Unbeli…
You SHOULD always spend less Money in retirement than when you were Working, having a mountain of bills/payments, were raising a family and having the
"Good Times'...
What are you going to spend money on Now? Any Ideas
Mona, Your Deep......as long as I get my 5-6% yield on my bonds, and Price remains steady or small increases (not 11%yr.) I'm happy with a holding I consider as cash, to be sold at anytime....they serve their purpose, but always nice to get a sensib…
"That means stock-fund investors underperformed the market by approximately 7.4 percentage points annually for three decades, according to Dalbar, a financial-research firm "
Which "Investors" are He referring to?...Just wondering?
Any multi-million Dollar(share) buyer/seller can manipulate the price on a Stock..not only Hedge Fund managers,all of them do it......Ask Buffett, Soros, hedge fund, mutual fund managers if they do it.....you won't get an answer..
Mark, you know the First sign of ignorance its "Name Calling" Your ignorant as demonstrated by YOU not by me giving you that title and I'm correct in any of the above statements, If you think otherwise...lets hear it...something of intelligence.....…
Don't have Time/interest to read Article but:
Correct: Outperforming the market is not the goal
InCorrect: "But choosing to go the active route works to expose the investor to that real danger. Indexing does not. And diversification among investm…
I could write a Whole book on this topic....but one quick one..
Poor People want to be payed for their Time and are payed based on their Skills per Hour
Rich People are not interested in being payed for Time they want to be payed on results,
Ever as…
Coach K (Bobby Knight Disciple) into Immortality and NO Name calling by Wisconsin "White Boys"... the Wonder/Joy of sports.....off to the Golf Course its Tuesday
I have 14 investments up across all sectors....no more time For market predictions....
Rays and Orioles...3:00pm Priorities please...Rays are undefeated..Maddon is 0 fer
When I was playing sports 50 years ago Blacks used the N word toward their own all the time, so I'm not sure about the Generational thing, their best Name toward guys like me was "white Boy" like hey White Boy what you going to do now during a game…
Scott: I Have to check out Dunedin Blue Jays this summer (minor League) a few blocks from our new home, $6 (seniors) to get in $1 Hotdogs, $2 beers on special nights, Young Upcoming Players...Gotta try it one Night...
Easy for Me: Buy Shares in Profitable, Growing U.S. companies when I was a young man and could afford to buy a few shares every week... result would be:
Can you spell multi-millionaire by 40, 50, well before 60...but that's past History, but not fo…
F that N---- is not Funny, but coming from a black its OK funny....
If Kaminsky would said F those N---- from Kentucky we beat their Asses.,...
The liberal Blacks would have went nuts...
WHy is it not the Same??
Side note: 4 white guys from middle …
Maddon is a Joke(er) The fun and Games begin for the Cub Players, its a "do anything you want atmosphere"...That's why many players loved playing for Him...but ask the serious"lets win" players they will tell you they are glad to get back to busines…
"Price" and Dividends are the Game.....Market increases and Decreases mean What?
I predict the Market will go up and Down and I (we) will Make money in the future...
See....Predictions are easy....and I'm correct....Eisenstedt is (probably) wrong a…
They are going to offer a paid subscription, but some authors/posters are going to continue to write and offer their postings for Free......still be able to get some good stuff and we will see how many readers are going to pay for "opinions"
All i…
"Hero worship" at its finest....I used to worship baseball/basketball players.......
WHEN I was a immature kid... Now I "worship"..... let me think.......
HERESY....Does Bogle know about this? Does anyone seem it strange that 30% of Bogle's company is comprised of Managed funds and about same percentage of his personal investments are managed....but for you he says buy indexes...go figure...
Someone is going to have to do more than "Research Work" for 63 years to claim Guru Status with me, But everyone has the privilege to pick their "Gurus":
His previous six-month forecast, for example, was that the S&P 500 by the end of March (th…
"Investing Guru" that "title" should set off Alarms in your investing mind, didn't this site have something to do with Alarms?
"than anyone I can think of" really? how many Gurus can you think of? two?
I could give you "links" so you have to read thru a bunch of filler stuff, or you can get the important stuff in a Quote from the article...saving your time if that is important?
But if you are conditioned to links that's ok....
John wins the spelli…
I'm going thru it right now with consumer staple and defensive: some of my major holdings: P&G, WMT, KO, JNJ,GE are all having miserable years, but I'm not going anywhere (selling), They will be back, Luckily My Health care has kept me making mo…
Nutshell:
"In short, there has been a lot more behind Vanguard's sales success than the accident of a blue-chip bull market. Among the reasons are discount pricing, clear communications, a cautious fund-launch approach, and unusually strict investme…