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Buffet's Warning on Owning Bonds:
Can you believe that the income recently available from a 10-year U.S. Treasury bond – the yield was 0.93% at yearend – had fallen 94% from the 15.8% yield available in September 1981? In certain large and importan…
Treasuries yields, Inflation and the Equity Market:
trillion-treasuries-mystery-is-bedeviling-global-markets
The Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate (MOVE) Index:
Many of us are familiar with the VIX Index, commonly referred to as the “Fear…
The road to carbon neutral may require carbon to be driven forward...
At a time when most major companies are working on plans to cut their carbon emissions, one of the darlings of green investing is working to increase its emissions footprint.
Y…
There’s that...YTD their 3 year old fund is in the top 4%...hoping others find value in what appears to be a well written article along with a few other finds.
GreeNews:
Oil Trade Group Is Poised to Endorse Carbon Pricing
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Mining magnets: Arctic island finds green power can be a curse
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These-bond-funds-and-bond-etfs-are-now-among-your-best-choices
the most widely owned bond fund category, intermediate term funds, often called "core" funds, have generally averaged more than 6% annualized over the last two years. Not bad, especially…
Government Bond Yields Have Surged, but Real Yields Are at Zero:
Government bond yields have been rising steadily for the past three months, but they went parabolic in February. The yield on the 10-year Treasury touched 1.6% yesterday, up from 0.9% …
A $50 Billion Unwind Fueled Treasuries’ Rout. It Has Room to Run
(Bloomberg) -- A chaotic selloff in the Treasuries market was spurred by a massive exodus from popular trades, heightened by liquidity concerns that could inflict more pain in coming d…
Interesting Read:
Yield Curve Steepening, and Small Caps
Right now, longer term rates are rising, while the Fed is keeping the short term rates low. That means the yield curve is steepening at a rapid rate. That should mean a continuation of small…
Momentum Indicates Stock Price Strength:
investopedia.com/articles/technical
The relation between value and momentum strategies:
Simple value and momentum strategies often end up with opposite market positions. One strategy succeeds when the other …
Munger of Novice Investors:
“It’s most egregious in the momentum trading by novice investors lured in by new types of brokerage operation like Robinhood and I think all of this activity is regrettable,” Munger said Wednesday at the Los Angeles-based…
Cathie Wood Funds Hit by Biggest Investor Outflow on Record
Fund just recorded worst two-day decline since September
Buy the dip?
https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2021/02/23/buy-the-dip/
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Welcome to Free File, where you can prepare and file your federal individual income tax return for free using tax-preparation-and-filing software. Let Free File do the hard work for yo…
Feb 20th Episode:
Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation:
On October 28th, Sébastien Page and Chris Dillon discussed principles from Sébastien’s recent book, “Beyond Diversification.” Sébastien combines…
Interesting Article:
The 27-Year-Old Who Became a Covid-19 Data Superstar:
covid-pandemic-how-youyang-gu-used-ai-and-data-to-make-most-accurate-prediction
His Website:
https://covid19-projections.com/
From @johnN link:
Two BNT162b2 recipients died (one from arteriosclerosis, one from cardiac arrest), as did four placebo recipients (two from unknown causes, one from hemorrhagic stroke, and one from myocardial infarction). No deaths were considered…
2/12/21 Episode
Topics:
Diversification works well...when you don't need it.
- Stay invested for the long term.
- Diversify for the upside, not the downside.
- How do treasuries and bonds help investors stay invested on the downside?
- Risk Mana…
Using MFO search feature, here's FSMEX. I continue to own this fund as I prepare for hip replacement surgery. As @rono would say, "Own what you buy."
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/search?Page=p2&Search=fsmex
If you are open to the idea of Basic Material VMIAX has performed very well. It's top 10 positions make up 50% of the fund, but it covers 115 companies that are in the Small, MID, and Large Cap space. ER is .10%
VAW has no minimum.
Seduction of Pessimism (By Morgan Housel):
Pessimism is intellectually seductive in a way optimism only wishes it could be.
Tell someone that everything will be great and they’re likely to either shrug you off or offer a skeptical eye. Tell som…
Feb 5th, 2021 episode:
RYSEX is ranked #58th by US NEWS (Vanguard Funds are ranked #1,2,&3):
https://money.usnews.com/funds/search?category=small-value
David Giroux (PRWCX) suggest Floating Rate loans (Leveraged Loans or Bank Loans). TRP price manages RPIFX (see if you can get around the $1M minimum) or PRFRX ($2500).
Link to Bank Loan Mutual Funds:
https://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/ran…
@JonGaltIII...maybe even simpler still (@bee has a bee size brain)...compare your stock (equity) dividends to bonds. If I understand Giroux correctly, he tries to GARP-y his equities to reduce downside equity risk and yet achieve equity dividend ret…
Paul Massaro Article on Fixed Income:
uncovering-opportunities-noninvestment-grade-credit
On Duration Risk:
... if you're going to take duration risk, take duration risk in your equity sleeve, not in your fixed-income sleeve. Duration risk in equit…
Vaccine passport and other updates (NY Times):
https://nytimes.com/2021/02/04/travel/coronavirus-vaccine-passports.html
Also,
Mixing vaccine cocktails:
britain-trial-to-test-combining-pfizer-and-astrazeneca-vaccines-in-two-shot-regimen
A vaccine…
Comparison with VFINX since 1987...mission accomplished...
As he said the fund is aimed to deliver good return (S&P500 like) with a lower risk over a market cycle.
Comparison to the S&P 500
