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@Freak: Maturity is pretty straightforward. A bond's maturity is the length of time until the principal must be paid back. So a 10-year bond will earn interest for 10 years from the date it is purchased. At the end of that time period the bond's pr…
@MFO's: Bought some CIM-PA this morning with yield at 8% selling a a discount to par of $25. Already own the common CIM paying 12% that I bought in July of 2015 at $14.55 per share.
Regards,
ted
@Lewis:: You never to old to learn something !
How much money exists on Earth? It's a simple question with a bunch of complicated answers.
Simply, the answer dependson how you define "money". For the narrowest definition, or what's called "M0", th…
@ Lewis & MFO's" Here's how we solve the problem. Let's take the total population of the world, 7.4 Billion, and the total amount of money, 60 Trillion M2, and divide it up equally, now let's close this thread !
Regards,
Ted
@gmarceau & MFO Members: TDVFX very impressive 5 year returns, 1 percentile, and a 50% return in 2013
Regards,
Ted
TDVFX Fund Performance:
http://performance.morningstar.com/fund/performance-return.action?t=TDVFX®ion=usa&culture=en_US
@shipwreckedandalone: Ranking World Allocation Fund U.S. News & World Report.
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Ted
http://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/rankings/world-allocation
@Puddnhead & MFO Members: On several occasions this year I predicted the S&P 500 would finish 2016 at 2323. Guess I mssed the mark by about 4%, but all-in-all it's been a great year.
Regards,
Ted
@MFO Members Great new, there are simply too many mutual funds. In the United States, there were more than nine thousand mutual funds in 2014, managing assets worth approximately 15.85 trillion U.S. dollars. Domestic equity funds constituted 42 per…
@MFO Members: U.S. News & World Report ranking of Infrastructure Funds.
Regards,
Ted
http://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/rankings/infrastructure
@Alban & MFO Members An interval fund is a type of investment company that periodically offers to repurchase its shares from shareholders. That is, the fund periodically offers to buy back a stated portion of its shares from shareholders. Share…
@MFO Members: (Click On Article Title At Top Of Google Search)
Here is the text that goes with the two videos. "Emerging+Markets+Roundtable"
Regards,
Ted
Emerging markets snapped out of a three-year rout this year, against an unlikely backdrop. Braz…
@MFO Members: Which funds--and fund families--are dishing out big taxable distributions this year?
Regards,
Ted
M*: "A Rundown of Impending Mutual Fund Capital Gains Distributions"
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=778475
@rforno Based on your response to my linking David's November Commentary on M*'s TIAA Diacussion Board, Thanks, but geez Ted, why do you have to spam every M* forum with the link? I would appreciate it if would not respond to any of my articles…
@Old_Joe I'm glad to see Paul Katzoff of IBD join the ranks of many financial writers who over the years have monitored FundAlarm and now MFO.
Regards,
Ted
@ Non Subscriber MFO Members: (Click On Article At Op Of Google Search)
Even in the era of index funds, humans have fundamental investing advantages that no machine will ever replace. So says Will Danoff, manager of Fidelity Investments’ $108 billi…
@Nick: There is an inverse relationship between interest rates and the price of preferreds – as interest rates rise, prices are expected to fall. However, the amount of the price change due to a change in interest rates is related to both the term …
@MFO: For many years Capital Group has had a number of excellent active funds in it's stable, but for the loads they would have had a lot more AUM giving Fidelity and Vanguard a run for their money.
Regards,
Ted