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And the hits just keep on coming. As I said at the time, this would be a long term drip-drip-drip problem and that in situations/scandals like this there is never just one cockroach.
I've had a LARGE BA position for decades - though I've sold it in…
I remember one USN spirit message years ago - a 688 sub was on patrol, the captain looked thru his periscope and spied the Army mule. The order was given to target & fire ..... and you can figure out the comical rest. :)
As a Navy vet, well …
Usually, yeah. As I said earlier I'm late this year.
No big deal, but PRWCX traded ex-div today.
Group B: record date Dec 12 (yesterday), ex-div Dec 13.
Aren’t dates of record one day AFTER ex-date? That’s how it is for exchange traded securities.…
Yup, always love it. Sadly, Army had issues and didn't come through this year, but still, always a genuine good game to watch. Alas, maybe next year.
FWIW saying I saw a spirit meme yesterday ahead of the game that said "The Navy is like Uber, ju…
MikeM: I don't want to 'buy the distribution' and incur a further tax cost .. a lot of people rush to buy OEFs at the end of the year as they rebalance (I don't rebalance) and then get surprised when the fund which they just bought sends them a 109…
Yeah I know, I wasn't able to get my order in today -- the usual end of semester chaos. :)
No big deal, but PRWCX traded ex-div today.
Group B: record date Dec 12 (yesterday), ex-div Dec 13.
Both, I think.
I make my annual (taxable) PRWCX contribution on Monday, when it trades ex-div. This year will be twice as big b/c I just don't see other tempting opportunites out there so why not stick with what works and a manager you trust.
There's only like 2-3 prison companies I think (Core Civic, Geo) that are public, so you can probably just buy the stocks directly.
Any mutual funds that invest in prisons or correctional institutions?
I always wonder who, if anyone, is front-running his various market-moving tweets and proclaimations.....with this regime, it's almost too easy for some insiders to NOT be doing it.
I'm realling looking for a fund which scores highly on ESG and low on carbon. I already have Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth and am looking at the Parnassus lineup. Many tech funds qualify on ESG as well. Any other suggestions would be gratefully…
Oh, I pay for the WSJ, WaPo, and NYT ... but prefer to pay for a quality viewing experience with less distractions and better 'flow' of articles. Ergo, I pay to provide that desired experience I use my geek-fu to deconstruct/reconstruct pages/page…
- Add-free. I wouldn’t mind if online papers included static “print-type” ads that didn’t detract from my reading (as hard copy newspapers did for a century or more). However, invariably these ads flash, blink, flicker, change color and dance ab…
That's kind of late. Hope they give folks time to sell (if they want) before paying out!
Yesterday I contacted DF Dent regarding end of year distributions and received a very prompt reply that the precise figures will be available on their website…
Yahoo Finance articles have become a joke, yeah. 24/7 Wall Street is one such example whose articles I presume are bot-written. IMO it's pretty easy to find the bot-written finanical articles since they're often talking just technicals, trends, …
@David - your algo bet is probably correct. Some algo or hedge fund AI is looking for hot stock or fund tips and scours the net for such articles to throw into its data pool to analyse. :)
The liquidity discussion should be required reading for every newbie stock and fund investor -- and refresher reading for us all as we review our periodically portfolios. Liquidity is like water ... when it dries up, one cannot easily move their …
Thinking of adding the new Vanguard Core International fund to my taxable acct to gain managed largecap blend exposure overseas. (It's managed by Wellington)
Global Wellington is interesting too, but I don't want bonds these days.
Day trading is NOWHERE as productive (or fun) as it was 10 years ago or longer. Speaking as someone who paid for parts of his PhD via daytrading futures (who has both earned and lost 10s of thousands in a single day), I suggest he first learn about…
The one nice thing will be to swap my Amex Platinum for a Schwab Amex Platinum, and thus literally be able to 'cash in' my points for deposit into my account. And get a discount on the Amex annual fee based on the size of my account, too.
I'm hop…
Not sure myself. I do like/use their ThinkDesktop active trading/charting package, which is a standalone app and not something run in a browser, which I like and hope they keep it. So we'll see how it all turns out....
@rforno. Thanks for your po…
Nope.
Anyone here or whom you know made any profits of consequence over whatever time frame from any Research Affiliates managed funds?
Thank you.
Catch
Not sure if we're only supposed to mention OEF/CEFs in this thread or not, but I added CSCO to multiple accounts (both my long-long-term account and my 'personal' account) and the REIT OPI to my personal account.
It's not just trade wars. The entire United States is completely off the rails.
+1
I still harbor suspicion that Tweety Amin, showman that he is, will do something -- even cave and claim 'victory' -- on the trade war sometime in 2020 just to make a…
Nah, hank, I'm the same way. I'll tune into Bloomie if I need an evening news fix or to track any Asian open drama. I haven't actually watched NBR since MPT changed the time/channel on me and made it less convenient to segueway after PBS Newshour…
I'd use the Vanguard MM if I could. Frankly many TDA customers were upset they didn't offer any 'free' alternatives to their cash sweep account ... I guess w/the recent moves by Schwab to lower fees and such they decided they needed to do somethin…
I emailed Parnassus on Friday to ask where their estimates were since they pay early in late November. I never got a response but am glad to see they are posted today!
Record 11/20/2019 Ex/Pay: 11/21/2019
M* really started going downhill when they began managing money and had to revise some of their newsletters for SEC compliance, so much of the 'opinions' and 'recommendations' got nixed in favor of more generic 'analysis'. It only got worse from …
"They know best." And they don't care how long it takes to fix things.
They're taking features from Premium and making them part of more expensive institutional packages, IIRC. And the site redesign is catering toward (allegedly) a younger crow…
I was a paid M* user for years but quit 2 years ago given the neverending site woes, bad data, redesign, etc.
I've found much of the data points I need for stock or fund analysis are on SeekingAlpha, for free, and in a much more usable format. A…
Agree w/the above --- imho the 10 year chart is meaningless. I routinely look at 15, 20, and max timeframes now. For me a decent rule of thumb would be how much they lost in '08 .... if they didn't do too badly (by comparison to say the SPX) and…
Speaking as a former futures trader I agree w/this article's questions .... once is a coincidence, repeated examples reek of market manipulation.
But then again it's OK if you're in the family or a close associate (Wilbur)....
