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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.
No, no, I meant SPHB (did not make two mistakes :) ). Perhaps my hed misled. I wanted to see its top 25 overlap with PFM and SCHD. This after reading this windy thing: http://www.morningstar.com/Cover/videoCenter.aspx?id=665823. And like so many ot…
rjb - d'oh! thanks
JC - not following your question. It is just a cheaper way of holding those ETFs, and I included SCHD, which many feel is the best of the regular div ETFs. Not shopping among them. The point was just that if you put commissionfre…
BoA say it is a browser caching problem blah blah or something, except it happens with all three browsers, and did not used to, and they have no problems with any other sites at all.
fullview is a bit of a mess everywhere, little to do with Fido; at BoA yodlee works similarly more or less fine except it cannot bring in your current BoA balances, even though it says it can, and has; quite unbelievable, and ML and BoA c/s are quit…
not sure this has everything everyone is looking for, but fwiw:
http://matthewsasia.com/resources/docs/pdf/literature/SAI_current.pdf
In W7 anyway, if you cursor down to the lower right and hover, a print (and other) option appears
@msf: Thanks; I did conflate fees, it appears, because this was WM's lede:
\\\ bad experience with Fidelity regarding a short-term trading fee.
My bad.
Fido have improved their cost tracking, and yes, it used to be iffy, or worse. Also many othe…
Not following. If you rightclick in this page, do you not get a Print option (all funds are showing)?
http://quote.morningstar.com/fund-filing/SAI/2014/4/30/t.aspx?t=MAFSX&ft=485BPOS&d=7fba07bce523a6afe29eba92eb16cbfb
WM, I bet they respond eventually. I have never known them not to, as a 35y customer. If it was a software bug or some inconsistency as a function of fund type or something, you may have some sort of case, not clear what exactly, but something. Hope…
@willmatt, I am very surprised that someone working for a transfer agent who made a mistake of this sort would expect a do-over, and wonder why you would think you could trade in and out of FPINX like some no-fee etf or cash fund.
However, to check…
>> It's much cheaper this way than managing funds anywhere else.
except of course for ntf funds, with no charges either direction, and many of them non-Fido
So what? What Scott said. Keep calm and carry on. Are you going to fret ginormously for 3y? Exhale, man. Odd how well (or well enough) FSICX, FTBFX, DODIX, and AOK have done the last 2-3y of rate anxiety. Check it out. I exclude anything Pimco. Do y…
Fidelity is always responsive in all respects, and otherwise excellent except for mfund selection (sometimes). ML is trying but only partly succeeding. ML does have free trading, for anything and everything, if you have enough there, which is wonder…
Right. It has significantly trounced VBMFX for every period since it was founded, 12y ago. It did have a stomach-jumping dip fall 08 to summer 09, which the Vanguard fund did not have. But that's what you typically get with Fidelity, at its best any…
The decline of grunt skeptical (but not cynical) reporting is bad enough (while at the same time we live in a golden age of substantive online investigation), but worse and mostly unremarked is the decline is hardcore skeptical demanding editing. Wh…
>> but in the past I have lived below the poverty level for years, and even collected food stamps for a while. So I think I have some credibility from that angle.
You certainly do. To me this makes your comments and tone and conclusions all …
@JohnChisum: Where did I get personal with you?? I asked a question, you answered. And the last thing I said to you was approval, dog-style. Jeez louise.
This is probably best dropped, but anyone who flatly asserts the cynnically wacko things timgr does not only hasn't done much hands-on work with the poor, I suggest, but for sure cannot explain all of the red states who would keel over and die were …
Your mind sounds made up, and the only thing you could do is read a bunch of economists whom you probably would have serious distaste for. The usual names; I bet you know them. Gov spending takes from the private sector, lol, where do you suppose th…
>> tax-and-spend philosophy that takes the economic stabilization argument of Keynes as license
What's wrong with this as long as it does not overwhelm GDP?
>> It seems today's government has forgotten all those attributes
As if gov is somehow this evil entity apart from the behaviors of individuals.
I want my beliefs insulted intelligently. Hard to find, true.
I take it you are civically act…
>> Government is legitimate?
No one would disagree it's much too much in bed with big money, but otherwise gah, such bullshit paranoia, old, tired, easily disproven; so jeez, give it a rest and go back to Fox viewing and AM listening or what…
Wow, blame back to Clinton, nod to Snowden, TSA- and Kerry-bashing --- wild, and all on Sept 11. I *am* glad not to be a near-Cincinnati buckeye anymore, that's true, for any number of pol reasons.
Hindsight is the best!
Looks at his bulls. Good thing we had the three dips as and when we did, or he would have to be writing an article about a bull market from 1974 to the present. Wait, what does that mean?
>> whole article is good reading.
>> The referenced article is indeed excellent.
Omg, how the heck so? Seems extremely feeble to me, even by the feeble standards of WSJ and MW service pieces. The rules are lame, not really or demonstr…
>> equal amounts of 3 mutual funds as a total portfolio: Vanguard Total Stock Market Index fund, Vanguard Total International Stock Market Index, Vanguard Total Bond Market Index
Well, just graph, from spring 96, VITSX, VBMFX, and VXUS (lemm…
Fascinating. And it's been beaten since say 9/08, 6y ago, beginning of the horrors and the reason one goes into good balanced funds to begin with, by MAPOX, ICMBX (great fund), and JABAX (another one, underknown bigtime).
>> Most large-cap fund managers “will be forced to re-evaluate their portfolios or embrace the likelihood of drafting very disappointing year-end letters,” Mr. Kostin said.
What a fool thing to think. Not that what Snowball wrote isn't true, …
