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@MikeW: "I reduced my stock fund holdings % in my 401K account down to about 50%." That was a big mistake, get back to 75% as soon as possible. With 10-15 years till retirement, time is on your side.
@Old_Skeet: Closing prices as of 8/26/15 from Lipper.
Regards,
Ted
IACLX:
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Fund/IACLX?countrycode=US
IGPAX:
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/Fund/IGPAX?countrycode=US
@MJG: I seldom, if ever link anything from the Fool.Com. I find the Gardner boys nothing more than fools !
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Ted
https://www.google.com/search?q=tom+gardner+motley+fool&biw=1280&bih=585&tbm=isch&imgil=Lmzzv…
@MFO Members: Some background reading on the Dow Theory.
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Ted
http://stockcharts.com/school/doku.php?id=chart_school:market_analysis:dow_theory
MFO Members: (Click On Article Title At Top Of Google Search)
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Ted
https://www.google.com/#q=Mario+Gabelli:+Stock-Picking+Treasure+or+Relic?+wsj
@willmatt72: U.S. News & World Report ranking of World Allocation Funds.
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Ted
http://money.usnews.com/funds/mutual-funds/rankings/world-allocation
@BenWP: Your link did not take because of subscription requirements. You need to click on article title at top of Google search, as I did last Saturday.
Regards,
Ted
http://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/22952/managing-the-managers#…
@MFO Members: List Of Specific Countries with Country and Region ETFs and ETNs.
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Ted
http://etf.about.com/od/foreignetfs/a/Invest-In-Specific-Countries-With-Country-And-Rergion-Etfs-And-Etns.htm
@MFO Members: A picture is worth a thousands words, of one's bucket list !
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Ted
B-17
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Color_Photographed_B-17E_in_Flight.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wik…
@bee: Its a reverse split.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.pimco.com/handlers/displaydocument.ashx?id=b0v9Pu0opGyI1X2hF/I57jejKclg9yLQD79bNJ0gJ8NrhhvndUqbIt31M3buxz6QqD5C+pV7QkXHtodgWQFu4ldiCqiLvUAT0JyEceJjmvUgcoZAUGeNLcnO7nqE7igoL3KgG/a5EfIYU4EENIMmpFGuN…
Old_Skeet: "I wonder what is going to happen to our respective investment(s) valuation(s) should any one of these current characters (all parties) get elected to the office of President?" Long-Term Nothing !!!!!!!!
Regards,
Ted
@MFO Members: Here are the numbers ! Generally speaking there is an yin and yang with balanced, or as they are now called Allocation Funds. In a bull market as we have had over the last five year the bond portion of the portfolio put drag on th…
@little5bee: I believe the study was done in late 2014. Further to find managers who invest in their own funds, go to M*, put in fund symbol, click on filings tap at top right of fund snapshot, look at SAI
@willmatt72: Cull the mutual fund herd and pay the 15 or 20% tax. If you made $10,000 on a fund your net profit is $ 8,500 or $8,000. Sit back and congratulate yourself on making money the old fashion way, your earned it.
Regards,
Ted
@Old_Joe: Churchill is democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time was credited with the quote, but he never said, "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all…
@MFO Members: Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for…
@MFO Members: Very small AUM combined, with poor performance doomed this relatively new fund. I'm a strong believer in cleansing of the of the mutual fund gene pool, there are simply too many mutual funds.
Regards,
Ted
Another One Bites The Dust…
@prinx: For your information, three tax-efficient funds from Vanguard.
Regards,
Ted
http://investorplace.com/2015/03/best-tax-efficient-vanguard-funds/print
