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@Crash, interesting that you only see that incorrect number in ALL links (I and others see different numbers there). It may be some AI-monster that adjusts linked info according to user location, and you probably got a bad AI-monster (-:). I will mo…
@David_Snowball, this shows that any single statistics doesn't tell much.
Correlation only tells how well 2 data series move in some "direction"; but the extent of the moves may be quite different. So, the high correlation between US Moderate-Allo…
@Crash, on web search, I found 2 numbers for GQG:
Common (754) 218 5500 https://gqg.com/contact-us/
Less common (866) 362 8333 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gqg-475c
The number you mentioned has 1 digit off. It's "362", not "372".
Franklin has 6 classes - A, A1, Adv, C, R, R6.
For Franklin Income - FKIQX, FKINX, FRIAX, FCISX, FISRX, FNCFX
Franklin RENAMED the old class A as A1 and then closed A1 to most investors in 09/2018. The new class A was started in 09/2018, so gener…
Many charting services have older data - StockCharts, Yahoo Finance (without reinvestments), Portfolio Visualizer, M*. Reading values from the charts may be approximate, but it should work for a handful of specific situations.
What exactly are you …
@msf, thanks for the additional info. The details vary by brokerages.
Fido will do same day exchange for Fido mutual funds, but does this 2-day exchange when one or both funds involved are non-Fido mutual funds. So, day 1 to sell, day 2 to buy. Sch…
Remember, T+3 changed to T+2 only in 2017 (not that long ago). And before T+3 was T+5.
Anyway, we should welcome T+1 on 5/28/24. This change was announced a couple of years ago, but firms were given a window of time to get ready for it.
https://www.…
Rajiv JAIN was the new Barron's Roundtable member this year and was featured in the January 29, 2024 issue. Get a copy for full details. He founded his firm GQG Partners a few years ago, but he has been around and is well regarded. His thinking may …
Keep in mind who is voting at the FOMC in 2024. For Cleveland-Chicago representation, it's Loretta Mester in 2024; Austan Goolsbee will be back to voting in 2024.
While all attend the FOMC meetings and participate in discussions, I have observed th…
As SAI (Statement of Additional Information) already had a meaning, the SEC shouldn't have allowed Fidelity to use SAI for another purpose (really, made up, because it doesn't even follow from Strategic Advisors LLC).
BTW, over the years, some info…
Info also has time value. So, the firm's proprietary research goes first to high-paying clients. But after that info gets stale in just a few days, it's everywhere for free - X/Twitter, Yahoo Finance, WSJ/Barron's, CNBC, etc. The paying clients get …
Well, Pershing is the clearing firm for Price/TROW. Also for TIAA, etc. Sometimes, 1 day may be lost by transfers between fund firm and Pershing.
Fido, Schwab, Vanguard (recent) have their own clearing operations and that makes a huge difference. B…
FCNTX Top holding META 12.52% of the AUM. META was up +20.32% today; it also started paying 0.50% dividend.
https://stockcharts.com/h-perf/ui?s=META&compare=FCNTX&id=p14446860698
The "temporarily unpublished" article has been "reviewed internally" and sanitized (-:),
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/15-funds-that-have-destroyed-most-wealth-over-past-decade
@larryB, VPMAX is aggressive growth, or growth with some conviction. So, it may be frustrating at times, but if she can mix it with another LC-growth/blend, it would be fine LT.
BTW, Amy Arnott's original 12/5/22 article is still on the M* website. But it had the usual culprits and didn't seem controversial.
https://www.morningstar.com/people/amy-c-arnott?page=2
But this 1/30/24 update, that was apparently withdrawn, had a…
Linked worked BEFORE, but doesn't now.
On a web search, it appears that M* has pulled the article. It focused on $amounts, not percentages. So, it had US Agg Bond Fund (total bond market) on the same list as the wild ARKK. M* probably received com…
Move away from China has led to onshoring, near-shoring (Canada, Mexico) and friend-shoring (Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, India, etc). The global supply-chain is big and complicated.
Lots of US federal incentives for infrastructure, manufacturing …
After the 2021 disaster (controversial FDA approval; Biogen's greed that led Medicare to an unprecedented refusal), Biogen/BIIB has a new CEO, and another Alzheimer's drug approved.
https://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=BIIB&p=D&yr=3&mn=0&am…
Notes by YBB
Rates were maintained - fed funds 5.25-5.50%, bank reserve rate 5.4%, discount rate 5.5%. Rates have peaked, but cuts may only be later in 2024.
QT continues at -$60 billion/mo for Treasuries, -$35 billion/mo for MBS; total QT -$95 b…
They are similar in style, but also quite different:
PONAX / PIMIX - OEF; multisector
PDI - Old-style perpetual CEF; leveraged
PDO, PAXS - Newer term-structure CEFs with finite lives; leveraged
TODAY, we will know little better about what the Fed / FOMC want to do in future. Watch here at 2:30 PM Eastern, https://www.youtube.com/@federalreserve
Pimco has a history in distressed credit that, in fact, goes back to Bill Gross' time.
During the GFC 2008-09, Pimco loaded on distressed residential MBS under the initiative of a guy names Ivascyn - he hired 200+ mortgage specialists to go over m…
Look at equal-weight funds - SP500 RSP, tech RSPT, energy RSPG, Nasdaq 100 QQEW, etc.
There are equal-weight versions of most sector ETFs.
https://ybbpersonalfinance.proboards.com/post/1097/thread
I also like ultra-ST FCNVX. Recently, its higher ER class was eliminated and its net ER now is 25 bps. It may be the only Fido mutual fund, besides Fido m-mkt funds, without any trading restrictions.
MY ST mix at Fido and elsewhere is T-Bills (no l…
Option-income funds have been around for a long time, GATEX, 1977- ; GCPAX, 2014- . There have been several others.
They didn't catch on until JPM put its marketing muscle behind its now humongous ETF JEPI, 2020- & its large variant JEPQ, 2022-…
Full para by JR provides context for that statement on funds with high derivative-income:
"Happily, the statistic of total return measures the entire package. It accounts not only for the moneys that derivative-income funds receive for surrendering…
From RiverPark Annual Report, 9/30/23, pg 44,
"Cash and Cash Equivalents — Cash equivalents include short-term, highly liquid investments with a maturity date at time of purchase of three months or less."
Note my underlined "at time of purchase". …
Another issue at Schwab is that a scheduled cash transfer is moved AHEAD to finish on the stated date, and/or if the stated date is a holiday. This may ruin well-intended transfer plans.
https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/comment/…
@msf, thanks for the 2017 link. I also found a 2022 link that verifies that the current M* practice is 92 days or less maturity for cash. M* forgot to send me the memo (-:)
https://pdfhost.io/v/lw2RlJt~L_MStar_Classification_Fixed_Income_022022
Cash, declared an asset, is RPHIX 33%, RSIIX 23%. (M* Cash is anything under 12-mo maturity (some use only under 3m maturity)).
But cash is paying good now. It may be more of a drag in equity funds, but less so for bond funds.
While the Treasury yield-curve is weird. It has an unusual dip in the belly. It seems that an inverted yield-curve is trying to normalize (to up-sloping), but the Fed has literally fixed the short end.
https://www.ustreasuryyieldcurve.com/
Harold EVENSKY, the originator of the bucket system, had just 2 buckets - one for short-term money that didn't belong in the market, and another that was in the market for long-term. It just formalized the idea that the money one needed soon didn't …
Schwab SNSXX is fine too in case you are limited to Schwab. SNOXX has the code word "obligation" for Treasury repos.
https://www.schwab.com/money-market-funds
