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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.
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, …
AJ and msf, tyvm!
Now I must check most of these (not the tech ones; I already excluded them in my mind) to see how they did during the two '14 dips compared with DSENX and PRBLX.
Can't believe I am researching this because on paper I give no cr…
Lipper says SP500 did 13.7% for 2014, M* sez 13.69%. DSENX beat that by 4%. Anyone got a broad large-cap fund whose benchmark is SP500 that beat DSENX? PRBLX did, 14.49%. M* basic screener lists hundreds but with enormous numbers of dupes. It would …
Getting back to apples-apples, PRBLX did, it says here --- not sure I believe that, will doublecheck --- and DSENX.
Skeet, you know 40 is too many in the sense of outdoing an average (he opined, unasked).
>> We all know the government's are highly suspect.
Actually no: MIT's Billion Prices data, collected independently, from online prices, do not track the official CPI exactly — the basket of goods sold online doesn’t exactly match the covera…
>> obviously an intelligent, forward thinking, realistic investor ...that wants earnings and PLANS for taxes as every American Should
You are much too kind. I may have a little bit of the first qualities listed, but I have never planned for t…
>> have a fairly high value account overall,
>> I have a large portfolio
What I was responding to; sorry.
I guess with cfp I shoulda added fee-based. No annuity sales, no Fido pressure. I have gotten sound advice at Fido but made it…
Okay, we understand you are in a higher tax bracket than some; you have pointed it out now more than once. I think a general question some are wondering is, What do you care really? Perhaps I should speak for myself. Make as much as you prudently ca…
+1 to msf. I would leave well enough alone, suck it up in April, and certainly not bail on Danoff and Tillinghast based on the last few years, nor even necessarily switch from Fido to Vang (though the CG points are noted). But your position is popul…
This is a completely, completely bogus article and comparison, and he almost admits as much. Okay, I did not include divs, blah blah, gimme a friggin break.
>> not many funds have beaten the SP500 3% annualized for the past 20 years.
Correct, not many, though you mean 19y, right?
FLPSX is one. There may be some Vanguard likewise.
One thing that is interesting is that it began its 08-09 dive …
maybe this got covered already.
I used TaxCut for well over a decade but Fidelity and BoA swung over to TT, like so many financial companies, and there was no auto-importing anymore into any program but TT. Auto-importing is majorly invaluable, in …
yeah, never ever thought I would or could long for a GOP prez like Trick. Of course he would be a blazing liberal and pillar of progressive sense and judgment today.
Carter and the Fed ruined the economy almost, back then, and harmed your business to boot, and now BO ruins coal and oil livelihoods.
Wow. Need to think something about proportion now.
d'oh! Thanks; I shoulda checked. Did not realize it was paltry.
Also did not realize he was still so involved. Shoulda checked lots of things before suggesting.
www.nicholasfunds.com/news/LA_Times-Nicholas-Fund.pdf
My late father suggested it to…
haha, leave it NatlReview to elide politics and the dotcom bust.
>> This reaction also reflected the looming recession
Burying the real content.
Thanks; interesting to dig up their perspective.
>> Markets tanked during that previous dispute.
But that wasn't why, right?
We will be lucky if it's Bush v Clinton, very lucky. Consider the unthoughtful or less-experienced alternatives.
