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Up 4% for the year with a vast-majority BOND portfolio, not bad at all. You think you can multiply by 6 (2 months at a time, like Jan/Feb) and finish the year with a 24% gain in BONDS?
Scott: I have plans to add DODIX and MSCFX soon. More bonds, but a conservative, more tame flavor, plus a small-cap, which I gave up (PRSVX) when I rolled it into PREMX last summer, just to prevent TRP from charging me an annual admin. fee which jum…
tgeno, I just now caught your additional remark about getting OUT in time. Makes sense to me! Except--- where to go after that? Unless the grave? My EM Bond fund, for example, is PREMX. At this point, I'm merely continuing to re-invest all divs and …
Quoting: "In January, mutual fund investors sunk more than $31 billion into taxable and municipal bond funds, according to Morningstar. They pulled $2.75 billion out of U.S. stock funds, continuing a yearlong trend that’s seen them pull out $103 bil…
It's coming up all dots and spaces for me. No text. Some damn computer tool doing that for them, so I have to buy it? "Copyright" = Imaginary Property.
Trackers, spyware developers, snoopers, phishers, virus creators: lower than whale feces on the bottom of the ocean. I use AVG, Malwarebytes, SUPERAntispyware, CCleaner, SpywareBlaster. FREE editions, so manual updating is necessary. Also use fake n…
Catch, you are on target. It is the triumph of spectacle and sound-bites and snippets rather than literacy, learning and critical thinking. Deep thinking is disappearing. Consumerism used to be thought of as wrong, bad, detrimental and evil. Now, it…
Duly noted. But I'm NOT dreaming. I just checked again at Morningstar. It might be incorrect or outdated information. It's just that when I saw the huge after-hours jump, I thought: Cripes! 41% so far, so FAST!? It IS still there. Allegedly, the sto…
Greetings. Just as a means of looking at a quick "snapshot" of particular funds, I use www.barchart.com.
There are links to more complicated stuff to be found all over the website. It's statistical, not filled with expert opinions. Just numerical c…
Profit-taking, selling into the rally. The Bull still hasn't found his footing and equilibrium? This leg upward is something they do not trust. Understandable. We continue to live with the ramifications of the criminally-induced-but-no-one-went-to-j…
I would not even think about going near the THOUGHT of adding some of that stuff to my portfolio, cuz I'm not a pro. It's risky enough just being in the stock and bond market, period----- because Uncle Sam is steering us there by keeping interest ra…
Thanks for the news, Sven. Anyhow, for any of you following some of the recent conversations here which have included critique of my own asset allocation, I'm hankering to improve the look and feel of my holdings. I'm definitely lopsided at the mome…
Jay-zus, I LOOOOOVE being so exceedingly, superfluously RIGHT!!!
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an ideal globally diversified fixed-income portfolio should have 8% to 15% in securities from the developing world, considering their risk and volatility characteristics…. …
Reply to @Investor:
I suppose I'm not even trying to be so very precise. When I speak of a low share price in dollars, I'm just reflecting its newness in this case. I certainly do look at total return, I notice (on funds with longer history) "downs…
Reply to @scott:
I cannot bring myself to settle for any sort of generic, milquetoast thing, if you know what I mean. As mentioned below, with a bunch of new money expected soon, I'm leaning toward adding the new Seafarer fund--- Andrew Foster's. I…
msf: that's very clear, very interesting. And very accurate. THANKS for being so precise and focused. I'm planning to continue to hold BOTH. I appreciate all the responses. Matthews is the best we'll find for Asia. I figured it would be good to look…
Ya, well, I kinda hogtied myself. I got 11 X more in MAPIX than MACSX, and MACSX is our only regular, normal, taxable, ordinary investment in mutual funds. we "raid" MACSX for vacations and unpleasant surprises. I still like the very low volatility …
Lots of work, thought and information. And CLEARLY expressed. MACSX is still about the most conservative Asia fund you can find? I thought so. MACSX has a much longer history than MAPIX. Morningstar rates MACSX at the moment much lower/stinkier than…
