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  • February MFO is Live
    It depends on what one is paying for? If I am ok with PRWCX is because I must believe the fund manager has "some edge" which is greater than participating in Passive Vanguard fund. Does every one of the 6700 Mutual funds and ETFs have edge. Most certainly not. Maybe 50 do. If its not one of those 50, most likely the adage, "Financial products are sold, not bought" applies.
  • GQHPX GQG Partners US Quality Div. Income
    @sma3 ....that fund is available at Schwab, although with a difference share class and symbol (GQJIX)...$49.95 transaction fee however.
  • SUNW vs NVDA
    @MikeM, is this what you were trying to post?
    Image ADDRESS (should have .jpg or .png ending) https://images.inc.com/uploaded_files/image/1920x1080/getty_133970892_157811.jpg
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  • AXS Cannabis ETF will be liquidated
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1587982/000139834424002210/fp0087097-1_497.htm
    497 1 fp0087097-1_497.htm
    AXS Cannabis ETF
    Ticker: THCX
    A series of Investment Managers Series Trust II (the “Trust”)
    Supplement dated February 7, 2024 to the currently effective
    Prospectus, Summary Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).
    The Board of Trustees of the Trust has approved a Plan of Liquidation for the AXS Cannabis ETF (the “Fund”). The Plan of Liquidation authorizes the termination, liquidation and dissolution of the respective Fund.
    The Fund will create and redeem creation units through February 21, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), which will also be the last day of trading on NYSE Arca, Inc. (the “Exchange”), the Fund’s principal U.S. listing exchange. On or about February 28, 2024 (the “Liquidation Date”), the Fund will cease operations, liquidate its assets, and prepare to distribute proceeds to shareholders of record as of the Liquidation Date. Shareholders of record on the Liquidation Date will receive cash at the net asset value of their shares as of such date. While Fund shareholders remaining on the Liquidation Date will not incur transaction fees, any liquidation proceeds paid to a shareholder should generally be treated as received in exchange for shares and will therefore generally give rise to a capital gain or loss depending on the shareholder’s tax basis. Shareholders (including but not limited to shareholders holding shares through tax-deferred accounts) should contact their tax advisers to discuss the income tax consequences of the liquidation. Under certain circumstances, liquidation proceeds may be subject to withholding taxes.
    In anticipation of the liquidation of the Fund, AXS Investments LLC, the Funds’ advisor, may manage the Fund in a manner intended to facilitate its orderly liquidation, such as by raising cash or making investments in other highly liquid assets. As a result, during this time, all or a portion of the Fund may not be invested in a manner consistent with its stated investment strategies, which may prevent the Fund from achieving its investment objective. Shareholders of the Fund may sell their holdings on the Exchange on or prior to the Closing Date. Customary brokerage charges may apply to such transactions. After the Closing Date, we cannot assure you that there will be a market for your shares.
    Please contact the Fund at 1-303-623-2577 if you have any questions or need assistance.
    Please file this Supplement with your records.
  • WBALX Weitz Conserv Allocation
    You might look at FPACX. You can buy it as Schwab and Fido for $50. About the same 50/50 but with a lot of cash that they will deploy down to may 30% bonds. Probably a little more equity heavy than WBALX
    There are other conservative funds that hold cash when things are so pricy and then can jump back in like MRFOX . It cam up on another thread and I dug into it and was impressed enough to buy some.
  • SUNW vs NVDA
    BTW, Scott McNealy (69) has been laying low & spending quiet time with family, friends and personal hobbies. After he left as the CEO of Sun Micro in 2006 at age 52, and its Board in 2010 at age 56, he dabbled with some startups, but nothing came of those.
    Interesting that Vinod Khosla recruited 28-yr old Scott to Sun Micro in 1982, and VK still remains very active in venture-capital.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy
  • Mag 7 Holdings - How Much You Got?
    Here is the taxable. I'm just looking at the top ten holdings on the M* quote page. I might get to the IRA later.
    Ticker, portfolio weight, holdings
    DIVO 4.97, Microsoft 5.56
    CSGZX 1.02, Microsoft 5.10, Apple 5.07, Alphabet 4.75,
    DODGX 12.74, Microsoft 2.62, Alphabet 2.54
    FSCSX .98, Microsoft 23.37, Alphabet 2.79,
    POSKX 3.31, Microsoft 2.93
    TDV .95, Microsoft 2.9
    Few here should be surprised that I won't be trying to work through the math on what this adds up to. :)
    FWIW: As far as the Mag 7 goes, only Microsoft and Nvidia count as tech companies in my view. Whatever percentage of Amazon's biz comes from their cloud operations can be thrown in as well.
    I look at Apple as a consumer product company, Tesla as a car company, and Alphabet and Meta as media deliverers of advertising. I am aware that's not the common view of these companies.
    The only one I seek to minimize is Tesla. Who remembers the Duryea Brother's Motor Wagon Company? China is gearing up to bury Tesla. Apple is another with China problems.
    I laugh at ESG funds that include Amazon, but I don't seek to minimize it.
  • SUNW vs NVDA
    Respecting @stillers request we start a new thread to discuss NVDA etc here goes
    My favorite Dot.com quote from Scott McNeely CEO of SUN
    "At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for a computer company. That assumes zero expenses, which is really hard with 39,000 employees. That assumes I pay no taxes, which is very hard. And that assumes you pay no taxes on your dividends, which is kind of illegal. And that assumes with zero R&D for the next 10 years, I can maintain the current revenue run rate. Now, having done that, would any of you like to buy my stock at $64? Do you realize how ridiculous those basic assumptions are? You don’t need any transparency. You don’t need any footnotes. What were you thinking?"
    NVDA Price to Revenue is three or four times SUNW then
    This quote is from the Felder report
    https://thefelderreport.com/2017/10/26/what-were-you-thinking/
    I would post the stock chart image if I knew how. It is in the link. ( at 72 I must admit I am a bit technologically challenged)
    Bottom line: "a chart of Sun Micro from 1996 to 2006. It started around $5 ran up to that $64 Scott mentions and then fell right back to $5. And you would think this might serve as a cautionary tale for investors today."
  • February MFO is Live
    @David_Snowball, this shows that any single statistics doesn't tell much.
    Correlation only tells how well 2 data series move in some "direction"; but the extent of the moves may be quite different. So, the high correlation between US Moderate-Allocation FPACX and EM G&I SIGIX may be due to global factors such as interest rates, dominance of large-caps, etc. Also note the higher correlation values for more recent periods.
    BEFORE I dug deeper, I compared the correlation data from MFO Premium and PV, and those MATCH perfectly (as expected). In the table below, the values are for cross correlation r of SIGIX with FPACX (r = 1).
    Period, MFO, PV
    Life, 0.80, 0.79
    10 Yr, 0.80, 0.80
    5 Yr, 0.90, 0.90
    3 Yr, 0.87, 0.87
    1 Yr, 0.95, 0.95
    Various MPT statistics are related, so,
    SD/SDbenchmark = beta/R,
    where, SD = standard deviation, R = correlation with benchmark. Only SD is independent of the benchmark used.
    Over Life, 01/2013-12/2023, from PV
    LINK https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&sl=5DgiftUZoWaQZlFGkuQurH
    Fund, SD, beta, R^2, R
    FPACX, 11.83, 0.73, 82.46, 0.91
    SIGIX, 15.38, 0.80, 58.19, 0.76
    VFINX, 14.75, 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
    Even if we didn't know what these funds were, it would be hard to miss that they are quite different.
  • Mag 7 Holdings - How Much You Got?
    @hank and @Observant1,
    Without the Magnificent Seven, the 493 stocks in S&P500 are doing so so and the smaller caps are trailing considerably. So where are the opportunities today in this high valuation environment ?
    How long can this goes on without a pullback? Here is a podcast from Schwab’s Kathy Jones and Liz Ann Sonders on current market environment. Comments reveal more on the quality of earnings.
    https://schwab.com/learn/story/earnings-season-high-demand-corporate-bonds
    For now we not adding more stocks but we maintain a healthy allocation to both stocks and bonds. Cash is building up as T bills mature.
  • GQHPX GQG Partners US Quality Div. Income
    GSIHX was mentioned in Morningstar FundInvestor (February 2024).
    "Led by manager Rajiv Jain, Goldman Sachs GQG
    Partners International Opportunities has continued to
    build upon its strong record. Over the 12 months
    ended January 2024, the fund’s 20.6% return crushed
    the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index’s 5.9% return. The
    fund’s performance ranked in the top decile of its
    foreign large-growth Morningstar Category in
    calendar years 2022 and 2023, a rare feat considering
    the drastically different market environments."
  • Mag 7 Holdings - How Much You Got?
    Thanks @Observant1
    And I wasn’t predicting an immediate precipice. or drawing a direct parallel to 2000. Odds are these stocks will continue to move a lot higher before something breaks. Possibly for years. And it should be noted that even folks who bought tech funds at the top in 2000 made out just fine if they held on for the next 15 years.
  • Mag 7 Holdings - How Much You Got?

    Here are my respective allocations (Note: I only have one OEF that does NOT have at least one Mag 7 holding), but I'm still about 3% UNDER the VTSAX Total:
    AAPL 3.5%
    AMZN 3.0%
    GOOGL 3.8%
    META 1.0%
    MSFT 6.0%
    NVDA 3.3%
    TSLA 0.5%
    Total 21.2%
    Here are my respective allocations without my two outlier positions of FSELX and GOOGL, which in Total are notably LOWER than the VTSAX Total:
    AAPL 3.5%
    AMZN 3.0%
    GOOGL 2.6%
    META 1.0%
    MSFT 6.0%
    NVDA 2.1%
    TSLA 0.5%
    Total 18.8%
    NOTE: To make these comparisons apples-to-apples with VTSAX, an all stock OEF, the two lists of my Mag 7 allocations use the amount of stocks in my portfolio as the denominator. And IMO that makes a lot more sense as all of us have varying Stock/Bond/Cash allocations.
    To normalize after removing FSELX and GOOGL, shouldn't you reduce the denominator by the amount of stocks you've removed from your portfolio?
    To illustrate with a simplistic example:
    start with a portfolio of just two stocks:
    AAPL $100 (50%)
    GOOGL $100 (50%)
    Total portfolio stock amount $200
    remove GOOGL, leaving just AAPL:
    AAPL $100 (100%)
    Total portfolio stock amount $100
    Reverse engineering your portfolio from the figures above, and noting that NVDA is 23.69% of FSELX, we see that ...
    NVDA dropped from 3.3% to 2.1% of the original stock portfolio, a decline of 1.2%. So the part of NVDA coming from FSELX constituted 1.2% of the original portfolio. Since NVDA is 23.69% of FSELX, then FSELX constituted 1.2%/23.69% of the original portfolio. That's 5.07% of your total original stock portfolio. So taking out FSELX reduces that portfolio by 5.07%.
    GOOGL dropped from 3.8% to 2.6%, a drop of 1.2%. So we should subtract another 1.2% of the stock portfolio. That's a total reduction of 6.27%.
    Now, without FSELX and GOOGL, we can divide the new percentage figures by (1-6.27%) or 93.73%.
    The total percentage of the new portfolio becomes 18.8%/93.73% = 20%. A modest improvement over 21.2%, but not a major shift. Notably, your OEFs ex-FSELX have a larger percentage of MSFT than does VTSAX.
  • GQHPX GQG Partners US Quality Div. Income
    @Crash, on web search, I found 2 numbers for GQG:
    Common (754) 218 5500 https://gqg.com/contact-us/
    Less common (866) 362 8333 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gqg-475c
    The number you mentioned has 1 digit off. It's "362", not "372".
    Thanks, yogi.
    I guess someone needs to get their shit together, and correct that. LOL. They're not paying me. And I'm done trying to figure it out. I clicked on the two links you posted. The same erroneous number comes up on both for me: 866.372.8333.
    (WTF, eh?)
  • Mag 7 Holdings - How Much You Got?
    I won’t change your mind, and you won’t change mine, I simply shared an episode from years ago, Personally, I’m standing clear. Lots of other places to invest. It’s your money to do what you want with. A year ago folks were salivating all over about 5% money market funds following a 18% fall in the S&P and a drop of 33% on the NASDAQ the year before. I thought that the clamor for cash was a bit excessive as well.
  • Mag 7 Holdings - How Much You Got?
    "The NASDAQ did not again rise to its 2001 peak until 15 years later”
    I wonder how many of the stocks in the NASDAQ at it's 2001 peak are in it today.
  • Mag 7 Holdings - How Much You Got?

    I stay as far away as I can from them.
    Dot-com bubble of 1999-2000
    “During the late 1990s, the values of internet-based stocks rose sharply. As a result, the technology-dominated NASDAQ Composite Index (NASDAQINDEX:^|XIC) surged from 1,000 points in 1995 to more than 5,000 in 2000. But in early 2001, the dot-com stock bubble started to burst. The NASDAQ peaked at 5,048.62 points on March 10. The index would go on to plummet by 76.81% until it reached a low of 1,139.90 points on Oct. 4, 2002. The primary cause of this crash was overvalued internet stocks. Many investors speculated that dot-com companies - even those without revenues - would one day become extremely profitable. As a result, they poured money into the sector, driving up the valuation of every company with "dot-com" in its name. The stock market bubble burst when the Federal Reserve Board tightened its monetary policy, constraining the flow of capital. The NASDAQ did not again rise to its 2001 peak until 15 years later”

    Source
    I have vivid memories of that period. Wasn’t pretty for those that had drunk the Kool Aid.
    Most dangerous words in investing: “This time it’s different …”
  • GQHPX GQG Partners US Quality Div. Income
    @Crash, on web search, I found 2 numbers for GQG:
    Common (754) 218 5500 https://gqg.com/contact-us/
    Less common (866) 362 8333 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gqg-475c
    The number you mentioned has 1 digit off. It's "362", not "372".