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I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
Hennessy Focus = same tenure issue as Great Owls: show 15y performance but management changed 6y ago. V good performance since, with new guys, better than FLPSX because so few foreign holdings. Still, most of the 15y performance was under famous Cha…
Not clear to me what you mean by 'not download'; there is online version and there is CD/download, or so I believe, as in the past.
If I got the latest narrative right, and I may not have, they did not include D in the CD/download at one price poin…
A nice contrast between the Huang analysis/quote and the Ellis quote, as the latter does not appear to understand the proposal. It effectively applies to high earners chiefly; existing moneys are unaffected; it will be a beneficiary tax only, not on…
>> Meridian Growth (MERDX) [is] among Charles's small cap Great Owls. Meridian Small Cap Growth, run by the guys who managed Janus Triton to a brilliant record, has also taken off like a rocket.
If you want to see what 'like a rocket' actual…
We really do need irony detection improvement, don't we? Anna should indeed be proud of her achievement, and contribution back; sounds like she is to an extent; and we all should be proud of having helped. I sure am. That's what it's all about. The …
My experience is this is another area for active management, not indexing. Fido has some excellent sc funds. Discovery and one or two others. I myself favor, in addition, GABSX and WEMMX. Gabelli would probably be the chief person to call himself br…
Mcm --- ' wealth redistribution ... has never worked over the long-haul anywhere in the world throughout history'
Jeez louise. Progressive taxation, and even unprogressive taxation, has been long considered redistributive, and widely accepted as su…
>> When the Gov't talks about education it never talks about containing costs or the quality of the education.
EQ, wtf. This is nutso-speak.
And so this thread turns into AM talk radio.
I know I am rich --- comparatively --- without anyone telling me. And glad of it, best country in the world. Not sayin' much, many days.
Gary's mere facts are lolz fantastic, so weird. 1960. Whoa.
+1, and more, to LewisB. Keep at it, dude, seriou…
>> US seems to be going in the opposite direction.
exactly; that's the problem in 9 words.
>> I think his income inequality diatribes are a joke.
What diatribes? What are you thinking of, can you give an example? Maybe I missed somet…
>> M* Stars do not consider manager changes
What is your evidence for asserting this? I cannot find where they explicitly say so. They do seem to mealymouth around it a bit; emphases added:
Process: What is the fund’s strategy and does mana…
haha, that is great --- Washington was pretty redistributive for the day (slave-freeing, sort of, the only one of the FF), and Paine moreso, at least on paper. The wacko BO angle is just a sign of how effective years of reactionary lying have been. …
>> implying along the possibility of
>> comparing versus manager tenure.
>> If funds did not perform after changes in management,
\\\ Sentence structure and punctuation make a huge difference in reading.
No kiddin'.
>>…
Yes, like many, I invest chiefly in managers, not funds. I would never want to bet on and hope for continuity, momentum, 'something going right long term'. Glad VGHCX abides. I was interested in seeing if any of the 30 listed have had one manager fo…
How many of the 30 are one manager over the 20y? I wager none. Can you parse similarly for 10 and 15y? Can you parse for one manager? Forgive me if I have missed these capabilities.
IRW, no, not exactly; see
http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2015/01/09/irate-turbotax-users-can-get-free-upgrades-or-block-substitute/
... the two paras beginning 'If Intuit was ready to give ...'.
The online version, which I have used sin…
Note that this applies only to downloaded program (client) and not the web version, so only a fifth of their customers. I have to stick with TT because it auto-imports (seamlessly) Fido and Merrill, which the others do not, or not yet. When I switch…
Yeah, I was very surprised and annoyed how much they wanted for little disc L-i batteries that I needed right then. They used not to be that way at all, but I suppose some companywide markup mandate to help in this crisis came into existence.
'Crudman' is 'staying polite'? I was suggesting that staying on point and informed was a better idea than spouting without knowing what. Pardon me. The best thing about NYT expert columns (usually) is how heavily substantiated and documented they ar…
>> I admit I did not read the entire article
Poor level of discourse. RTFA, and the below too.
See if you might thoughtfully find some things about it that sound positive.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/transaction-tax-plan-brings-fresh-…
@Anna, d'oh and +1. Where did that come from, how long has it been there, and is this not what we tech writers call user error. I don't know that I would've posted my original complaint had I known about this magicality.
Let us publicize it, or ma…
Hey, OD, xxcellent and tyvm --- just added it to my cart.
Will do a double espresso when I get it. Then that night it's Death's Door gin. Or maybe that morning, to get those ants out.
As Mick J explained, 'I was a soigeon, till I start to shike.'…
You are recommending a load fund with a non-low ER? Where do you get it on the cheap?
Looks okay otherwise. Terrible dip in 08-09, took 3y to get back to zero.
PRBLX, YACKX, FLPSX, and FCNTX all look preferable since 1983. Good comeback since the …
If lazy (in the good sense), place all in AOR, AOM, or AOA, blended etfs, depending on taste in risk and volatility. Leave alone for long time.
If chiefly speculative money and a long horizon and you likes rides, put all in FLVCX, or perhaps with a…
Many of the older funds on the long list above had brutal 08-09 dips; the rest are way too new to evaluate, really. Now will try to analyze '14 dip performance.
Yes, thanks. Got an espresso machine for xmas, so get jacked every morning even more than usual. Plus some whiskies, for later in the day (easy to buy presents for).
I remain weller than not. I hope your family is mending. Nasty bugs going around, …
