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Giroux made his rep on a low-volatility balanced fund. Now he is on a different playing field. And it's crowded.
MFO premium says you can screen for top-ten holdings, but really only allows five. As it is, Giroux is competing with 98 funds that cha…
Recycling is to prevent toxic stuff in the landfills and/or to reuse materials that are in short supply.
Most recycling requires additional energy. Only safely combustible waste (bio-waste) may produce energy economically.
Reuse is the highest for…
Added XMHQ to the IRA at the beginning of September. It will receive other investments as they are sold off when they are back in the black. No tax-loss harvesting in IRA's.
I'm looking at you TCREX. Remember when real estate was considered an inf…
Current thread: "How would you invest $100,000 right now?"
This is not about how would you spend it or what it means for you or paying someone's debt.
Why not open a new thread and ask what a windfall of $100K would mean for you and how are you…
Now?
Been that way for a while. Buy this! Do that! Don't worry! Don't do that! Something is cheap! Something is expensive! Reply hazy! Ask again later!
Row after row, column after column, with incomprehensible graphics, or little pictures of str…
Sounds like our weekend place. Didn't build it as an investment- we've had 25 years of use and pleasure out of it. With current insurance problems it may not be easy to sell that either. If we just break even, adjusted for inflation, that will be fi…
YBB does not push his very own market-timing schemes.
Nor does he denigrate factors that aren't meant to predict the market in an effort to convince people that his schemes can time the market. Consequently, YBB does not have to post disclaimers i…
WABAC, several posters supported my opinion about all-caps, you can too.
What do I do? I can write a lot about it and did in the past, but not anymore. Believe it or not, it works pretty well. It's mostly at (https://fd1000.freeforums.net/thread/25…
WABC, The problem with your post....This site isn't an email forum, it's an investment discussion online forum. Valuation was the only all-caps word and the most important one. Obviously, you paid attention.
BTW, it's about time to look at the cont…
The problem with VALUATION
When people start shouting, I stop reading.
Dinky linky.
Professor Paul Luna, director of the department of typography and graphic communication at the UK’s University of Reading, told me we’ve been using caps to convey…
de nada.
I find it interesting to play with as I evaluate the holdings in our over-stuffed IRA's, what to add to on a dip, or looking at funds in the same category.
Fair use ration:
PATRICK HARKER: Yeah. We need to see clear signs we're moving toward 2%. Now our view is we're going to get under four this year, under three next year and in 2025, we'll hit two. It's going to take some time. And, I think, we just …
It is very very rare on these threads, to see specifics about how much you are investing.
How often have I said I throw nickles around like they were man hole covers?
;)
Put a little into some allocation funds not too long ago. Otherwise, all short term.
Always been in the higher for longer camp once inflation got going. People seem to think it will melt away like snow in April.
I think none of the guvs wants to b…
Not a single neighborhood financial institution, brokerage or bank, has a notary anymore (I checked a month ago).
Maybe because some kid is doing it at the local FEDEX/UPS store.
Why would I want to pay more fees, spend more time, and spend more hours dealing with agents who messed things up once again
Can't say I have experienced those problems, even at Vanguard.
Poke me on Sept 1 and I'll give it a try (and also look at data available on other sites then).
That's giving my memory a lot of credit.
That's a bug in the screener. If it were a feature, it wouldn't show a fund category criterion. The tool fails…
You can snack here: https://www.etf.com/etfanalytics/etf-comparison/USFR-vs-TFLO
Nice, though its duration numbers (5.10%, 5.20%) are something else (yield?)
At the page for TFLO they show its duration as -0.02. So yeah, there's a screwup there. M…
ETFdb indicates that TFLO follows a different index than what is indicated by iShare - this may be a recent change.
etfdb.com and etf.com both have the same wrong index for TFLO: the Markit iBoxx USD Liquid High Yield 0-5 Index.
Try finding information on other funds at the beginning of the month at Vanguard.
For old time's sake I tried to do a search for LC value funds. If you choose domestic funds you are now stuck with all fund categories. They're breaking it M* style.
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More people ought to subscribe to MFO premium so they know what they are looking for.
But It's not a service that will help people looking for short-term plays.
Try and screen for external mutual funds at Vanguard.
Can't get there from here.
If…
Added USFR to our IRA's on June 1. Lots of peace of mind.
Haven't looked at higher rated corporate floaters. Not sure the water has finished receding. Might be more naked swimmers out there. YMMV :)
Good day for utilities, and that's about it. Oh, GISYX showed signs of life. But not enough to sell yet.
I am following WABLX for the IRA, and it was only off .25 % for the day.
From the ads on the news channels, network news, and local news, it’s apparent that their audiences are not a highly valued demographic. (A lot of drug and Medicare ads not to mention the MyPillow and gold bug ads on the right-leaning outlets.)
Pl…
@hank, I think you're looking at the communication services category in ETF land for any "concentration" at all. And they're still sharing space with Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Google, etc.
I signed up at this site: https://www.etf.com/ and they h…
I didn't read anything in the article, or the links, that would tempt me to consider going back to Vanguard. YMMV.
I didn't see any mention of the word fiduciary in the parts of the article about PAS. But it's not something I would need to worry ab…
@WABAC: I agree that bonds are like children (at least those of my parents’ generation). They should be seen, but not heard. Send the kids off to bed early. Similarly, buy an allocation fund so as not to be distracted by contradictory talk of durati…
Thanks, @WABAC. I appreciate your specificity and I follow the moves you’ve posted previously.
de nada @BenWP.
PE on SYLD is still quite low. And I like the thesis for a long-term holding. FSUTX is off a little bit this year after coming through la…
