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The recent mini-blip down in the fund must have something? a lot? to do with the yen - it's been sliding, and Gavekal has 39% in apparently* unhedged Japanese stocks.
* Apparently, because the Principal Investment Strategies section of the prospect…
What do any of these (except for DSENX / DSEEX) have that PRBLX does not?
Brings to mind the discussion a couple of years back about MFO's crowning of SMVLX as a "great owl" before it had shown what it does in a market unfavorable for its schtick.
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I'd think hard about the fund's sector strategy if I were tempted to buy in. Right now, and from memory basically always, Smead invests real money in just three sectors: consumer discretionary, financials, and health. Those sectors' fortunes pretty …
Thanks again for making a habit of posting the Bespoke valuation reports, Ted. It's hard to beat simple & comprehensive like Bespoke does.
The 10c summary: financials lead the U.S. pack, utes & health getting smacked, Brazil's taking a pos…
About SEEDX, I looked into it twice after it was profiled here, but didn't see anything special enough to consider replacing the U.S. funds I usually use - from Parnassus and Jensen. Oakseed returns have been nothing to write home about, and it's no…
Just fyi, QLENX is ntf at Fidelity, but it also has a slightly higher E.R. than QLEIX. You can get either of them at Fido with a $2,500 initial investment in an IRA; the minimums Kevin mentioned are for group retirement plans, according to the "fees…
Now I want a Hamptons t-shirt with the mug design. I think I could afford that ... altho I'm a little worried about the rampant inflation in the t-shirt market.
"Any writer who refers to Scrooge McDuck to make a point has my vote!" @AndyJ- for sure! Even better, though, would be The Beagle Boys, Scrooge's long-time nemesis (nemesi?).
Hey Joe, as a wee lad, I'd check the pharmacy's comic book stand for the …
You know this about perma-inflation Singer, right?
Ah, so he was the one; I was telling someone about the terrible Hamptons r/e inflation the other day and couldn't remember what caricature of a clueless zillionaire had said it.
Good writing, too. …
Yep, it's amazing how much even a partial year's returns can color a fund's overall relative record. I finally got that thru my thick head only in the last couple of years.
Jensen was okay but not great for years, then started a run in Q4 15. The …
Hi Andy - Always nice to hear from you. I haven't been able to find QLENX with a low minimum to invest.
Hi Will, they're both offered for low minimums at Fidelity in IRAs. I don't know about any other brokerages. -- Cheers, Andy J.
* FRIFX, the chicken's way of investing in financial-product real estate -- but I like the look of GFMRX if I ever want to go whole hog.
* A small position in PGRNX as a long-term bet on energy efficiency, renewables, the energy economy transition…
Excellent article. Due to SEC regs, shareholder resolutions typically don't have much in the way of teeth; the resolutions being proposed these days at carbon-intensive firms are all but entirely about financial/investment risk disclosure -- disclos…
Just thought I'd post this link from Morningstar. Probably a damn pay-wall. Let me know, and I'll solve THAT little capitalist plot. ;)
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=759947
That's an analyst report in the form of a regular a…
Just a quick note, Gary - the reason the 60d rollover got into the conversation is that if you were within the 60 days and hadn't done one in a year, you could simply redeposit the $ you took out of your Roth and call it a rollover, with no conseque…
Interesting, the calculations on default risk. The first one, the one he says is the historical way of looking at it, lines up well with the "sell 4" part of the old "sell at 4, buy at 8" rule of thumb for HY valuation based on spreads to Treasuries…
The 60d rollover rule changed in 2015: it's now one per year, period, no matter how many accounts you own.
For the OP, if you're beyond the 60 days or have already done a rollover within the last year, I'm not familiar with what you can do, but no…
A very good fund on a great run ... it doesn't have many years as high in the pecking order as this one, though, and the trailing P/E has creeped up to ~ 25, so I wouldn't empty the piggy bank at this point. I'm holding the shares I've had for a yea…
I sold underperforming LCV funds and put the proceeds into PONDX, as much for needing some cash next year as for the markets' being high.
You still have DSENX/DSEEX though, right David? I'm thinking I may take a small starter bite on the next mini-c…
Thanks for the news on the PTIAX site, TSP-T; didn't realize they'd spiffed it up.
It took me a while (slow learner sometimes) to figure out that an appropriate combo of Pim Income & Perf Trust Strategic could roughly balance out to neutral ra…
Thanks, J. I thought it might be the difference between price or NAV and total return, and that makes sense. I think the reason you see charts posted like the one in the O.P. is that a lot of the time, the highs and lows somebody wants to compare ar…
Why does nobody seem to me concerned about interest rate risk these days?
The new lows in T's, below the old 2012 lows, should spark a little concern at least. Maybe it's the talk about negative sovereign rates elsewhere leading foreign investors t…
Junkster, the most recent marketing e-mails I've gotten from Pimco are more about investment grade corporates, e.g., the portfolio style of PIGIX (LQD fits in that box too). Of course you can't tell from Pimco (without a phone call) how much junk th…
Of note: Many hedge funds are using EFT's as part of a portfolio. Obviously, some of the hedge funds money flows are large. One may suspect some of the reported flows from Ted's link article are hedge fund related.
I've also seen hedge fund buys &…
No mention in the Barron's blog post of the fact that PCI is changing its name and investment mandate at the end of the month, which is probably an important point for anyone considering putting new $ into it.
I'll never understand these posts/arti…
With DSENX I have entrusted significant partial moneys w Gundlach, but man, this makes me think he is kind of a dope sometimes. Gold, seriously, ever?
David, the way to think about JG, in my humble opinion, is that he's about as good as they come in…
Just fyi, JG said the chart for gold looked like a bottom in January, during the Just Markets web cast; this isn't a new "call." (I'm not making a claim that everything that comes out of his mouth is gospel.)
PPSAX is a conservative option in an oef; don't know about LW availability at Vanguard. PGX is another decent choice in an etf.
Ditto, though, Bob's comment about premium pricing on preferreds (say that ten times). If I were interested enough to b…
I wasn't aware that Puerto Rico had become a part of California. When did they move? :)
San Francisco must have annexed PR for more affordable housing ...
Non-profit organizations typically have solid limits on board tenure written into bylaws. It's clearly recognized that fairly frequent, but overlapping, board turnover is healthy and necessary for an organization to stay vital and not stagnate. Ther…
Hi Crash, looks like PRSNX has turned out to be a worthy fund.
Just charted it, DLFNX, and GBOAX (the last global oef I owned), and they have almost identical 3y returns, with DLFNX taking the steadier path to the result.
MMHAX and PYMDX look less risky than NHMAX because they are of shorter duration (8.6 and 7.0 years vs. 10.1 years).
PYMDX is also somewhat higher up the credit quality chain, according to the literature and from the percentages by rating I got fro…
