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In case it might work for you, these are the dividend paying equity funds I own. Couldn't hurt to research them for yourself: SFGIX, MAPIX, MACSX, MAINX and MAPOX. The BOND funds I own, PREMX and DLFNX, pay MONTHLY.
MAPOX is a "balanced" fund, own…
Ya, I would caution against any big wholesale moves. As noted above, everything is pretty much riding high right now. Not a good time to buy equities, if you're not already in. My bond funds include PREMX, too. My others are MAINX and DLFNX. They ar…
Reply to @scott: You're so right! Point well taken. You have to not need to eat FOOD to say that there is no inflation happening. And gas at $3.71?????
Well, I'm 50/50 stocks/bonds or thereabouts. 58 years old, wife still working. Romneycare in Massachusetts already. We're a step ahead of Obamacare. It's better than nothing by about a half-step. (Health insurance is radically screwed-up, so let's f…
"The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order." ---Catholic priest Gustavo Gutierrez.
I will be sticking with my current choices. I own only 9 funds, but have big barbells at each end with PREMX and MAPIX. I let the monthly div. from PREMX and DLFNX just ride, reinvesting it all, including these others, too: I get quarterly divs. fro…
Top 3: (I hold just 9 funds, total. The lion's share is in tax-sheltered retirement stuff.)
PREMX 40%
MAPIX 35%
MAPOX 3.3%
All the others are at 3% or less: SFGIX, TRAMX, MACSX, MAINX, MSCFX, DLFNX.
Things have been very volatile, very recently. When stocks zoom, bonds suffer, or at least go nowhere. Your PTTRX and DODIX are great choices. But if you want to stay ahead of inflation, you need to own some stocks.
I'm retired (too early,) and wi…
...I show up to the doctor for a visit. I get past the Waiting Room, escorted by a nurse. Before I am led to an examining room, I am asked for my birthday. Once, I asked the guy: "You need to know that right now? What's going on, you looking for a d…
We have Romneycare in MA where I live. Obamacare is modeled after it. The chaotic, nonsensical, crazy medical and medical insurance "system" is the exact opposite of what it was presented to be. It was PRESENTED as "universal" coverage. You have to…
Reply to @Mark:
It's always seemed senseless to me that we as a country can blow up the world a bajillion times over but we can't afford to feed, shelter and take care of those who need it.
That pretty much says it all. The PROFIT needs to be remo…
Reply to @AndyJ: My sentiments, too. I take you to mean that we don't want Matthews to be inventing and manufacturing new funds, just because, without much rationale or logic or purpose.
Reply to @BobC: Hello. You might or might not be aware: I'm dealing directly, on a retail basis, with each fund house. TRP not long ago launched an EM bond fund in local currency. PRELX. It could be that M* is comparing it on the chart to the wrong …
No mention of TRAMX, either. I've been in for less than a year. It's up for me by 7.7666%. Heavy into South Africa, some Qatar, Nigeria. Also HSBC and one or two in Kuwait, among the top 25 holdings in the fund. I just noted that M* demoted it to "b…
Canada's had no mail on Sat. for ages. When I lived out in B.C., I'd go to the mailbox out of habit, and find it empty, and remember: no Saturday mail. I guess it won't kill us. And the government wants it both ways with the USPS. Private? Public? G…
Scott: I could not have said it better, although I might just add that "fundamentals" departed the picture YEARS ago, pre- 2008 Crash.
Your own words describe my own attitude and approach, too: "I agree with you on being nervous regarding a market …
The KISS Principle works for me. You can't afford to be NAIVE, mind you. We all have to do our homework. In principle, I suppose I understand how "puts and calls" work. But I know all I need to know about such things, because I'm never going to mess…
Quoting: "I don't like it but I take issue with Max's banana republic characterization. How about getting informed a bit before shooting from the hip.
Revisions are a fact of life as certain data has to be estimated. It can be revised up and down. …
Can you spell, "Banana Republic?" But THEY are getting their shit together these days. Anyhow, that number (down -0.1%) will be revised and revised again. I'm to the point of not giving it much attention. Until the "final" estimate is announced.
Did we not see this a few days ago under another title? Anyhow, it makes perfect sense. Ritholtz is a straight shooter who knows what he's talking about.
I'm one who hates to follow bullshit protocol and jump through hoops, too. Yet Big Business of ALL sorts have proven over and over to be unable or unwilling or too greedy to police themselves. And with my tongue in my cheek, I laugh to hear the term…
