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You did well with that selection, it looks like! I used to own PRSVX. Truthfully, I just got BORED with it. I rolled it into PREMX and get a bigger monthly dividend now. (But I'm reinvesting all of that, still.) And I suppose I got impatient with PR…
Let me start by reminding us all of what we are already aware of: market fundamentals are "out the window." This is a "juiced" and skewed Market, these days. And as for buying, well, the train's already left the station. If you buy, you'll have to h…
PRSNX: My take is yes, it's not a bad choice. It is not, strictly speaking, a fund of funds, but I see that it does own rather much of OTHER TRP funds. It's like adding a 5th wheel to your car, no?
Reply to @catch22: "I still consider much of the governmental interactions from any and all areas to be at an "experimental level"; and we are the test subjects."
Quite right!
Reply to @Investor: Logical. I suppose I can admit that I tend to operate with tighter personally-imposed restrictions than most folks. I just don't want to do business with any of those Big Monster banks, most of whom were bailed out with taxpayer …
Reply to @Skeeter: Makes a lotta sense, is all I can say. Very enlightening. You've added a great contribution to our MFO bulletin board, here. Thanks.
"MasterCard said it doesn't expect most merchants to put the surcharge into effect, since stores won't want to drive away business.
"We anticipate that they will not impose checkout fees, particularly because the value merchants derive from card a…
Herbalife. I confess to knowing next to nothing about it, but I did catch a Stephanie Rhule (Bloomberg) interview with their high mucky-muck. "Distributors," he explains, are not really distributors. Don't we all run into such shennanigans all the t…
Reply to @David_Snowball: Shucks. I bet they say that to ALL the girls... Thanks for telling us that. Quite a collective compliment! Even if it does not apply to me. Professional investor? Hardly. Academic? If I could have made a living staying in s…
I've owned MSCFX (Mairs & Power Small-cap) since 09 April, '12. It's up for me by +22.1892% as of last Friday. Consider the run-up in your decision to get in. It is still a very young fund, so in one sense, the sky is the limit. And you don't ne…
I don't see the discussion needing winners and losers. There has certainly been a concentration of wealth toward the top going back a couple of decades, at least. General experience means more than statistics. After all, the government simply re-def…
I used to live in Canada, a couple of different times, and there is some sort of Cabinet Minister who must assure that in newspapers, magazines, tv, radio, etc. etc. etc. there is "X" amount of CANADIAN content. I wonder how that's been factored-in.
Hmmm.....What I can say is: both my PREMX and DLFNX have been faltering recently, though not exactly PLUNGING of late....PREMX = 40.83% of holdings, and DLFNX = 2.61% of holdings.
A good reminder. It prompts me to think of the Zurich Axioms which have been featured here in MFO. Maybe Fund Alarm, prior to that. I studied those axioms and believe them to be well-put-together. Good guidance. However, it also looks to me like som…
Yes, just using the M* thumbnail statistic going back one year (from today, not at the inception of MAINX) shows MAINX at +14.05% since 18 January, 2012.
FNMIX at +20.52%
PREMX at +19.11%
Maybe it sounds too convenient an excuse, but chalk up the…
Ya, I was gonna mention BERIX, too. In the past couple of years it's been disappointing, but it is supposed to be explicitly, deliberately conservative... I don't own it, but had been monitoring that fund for years.
I know what you're talking about regarding those delays. I'm in southern New England, where we had the early freak snowstorm in late October, 2010. Took 9 days to get our electricity back. What a mess. The State's AG fined the four biggest utility c…
Thanks. Just several words manage to say so much: "An investment category regression to the mean seems to be an empirical ironclad law. Trees do not grow to the sky." And "don't chase yesterday's high-fliers." Both statements are foundational, basic…
It was very thoughtful of you to provide these items, hank. I looked at the second one but was a bit intimidated by the sheer length of the Table of Contents of the first item. Caveat: Surely I am an outlier about all of this stuff. From where I sit…
How about a foreign small cap? MSMLX. Just to introduce a little wrinkle.
http://quote.morningstar.com/fund/f.aspx?pgid=hetopquote&t=msmlx
It is at the very least competitive with the other Matthews funds in terms of performance. I do not own …
All very thoughtful responses, thank you. If I knew my friend's SS # they'd have helped, I figure. Just before asking for his social security number, they asked me for my zip code. I gave HIS, of course. Nope, I was told. That's not showing up. What…
I'm all FOR security, Catch. But c'mon: when you're dealing with questions---especially--- which are NOT account-specific? When that's the case, they're just making you jump through hoops for no reason. Idiotic. Worthless. Scummy. Fart-brained.
First of two transactions WAS in fact accomplished: I managed to take ALL MONEY sitting in OTCFX and transfer it to PRASX.
The problem occurred when I needed to tell the computer to split the number 100 (percent) into 3. Because what he and I --- …
...And my question was in fact looking for an answer: Are all the lovely wonderful people who answer the phone as "Customer Service Experts" INCAPABLE of understanding, or are they INSTRUCTED to play dumb? I guess I already know the answer to that: …
You guys are good for me. :)
You can see, can't you, that all of the ID crap is what's got me at boiling-point. When yer already "in," yer IN, godammit. But they want you to prove who you are ANYWAY--- even though I COULD have simply posed as Jo…
