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Even though we're allegedly 'late in the cycle' I'm waffling between adding TRBCX (TRP Blue chip Growth) or JENSX as a 'growth' sleeve ... JENSX is more conservative [1] and doesn't hold many of the momo-favored 'growth' names while TRBCX certainly…
Call me a heretic, but I'm coming to believe that IRAs are a bleeping joke. Why do I say that?
< begin rant >
1) In corporate 40X accounts you can save 18K+ in a taxfree account but only 6K annually in an IRA? If they made the IRA contribu…
The era of cheap debt and/or helicopter money from central banks tends to render predictions of anything less than further equity gains to be moot, I daresay.
Hats off to David et.al for running MFO. Amazing community here, and a far more usable site than what M* has become in recent months.
Which reminds me, I need to renew MFO Premium as we head into the new year.....
"could be" is a phrase that should be banned by Wall Street 'analysts'
Things have been reported to "could be" happening all the time but have yet to pan out - or pan out *significantly* .... hence the rise of perma-bears and perma-bulls.
My ru…
I've had friends experience MAJOR fedex issues in recent months, to include losing their passport and then giving them the runaround. I think the only thing fedex cares to deliver on-time and correctly are new iPhones when they're released.
I use…
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…
