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Thanks all. I deleted all M* cookies from Opera, and I'm back to the old version. They slipped a cookie in there somehow, and I couldn't find my way back...
I second Bonanza. Star Trek will never be forgotten either. These themes have been burned into the psyches of all boomers that grew up with TV. There were so many...The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, The Tonight Show...the list is almost endless. Don't…
VF, I'm not trying imply that it is your fault. I know that if you go to the American Funds site, they also say that $250 if the minimum. Maybe somebody at TIAA just copied and pasted what they saw on the AF website on to their own page? Yes it's t…
Invest in Mexican helium distribution points which will spring up near the border in order to fill the balloons that will be used to carry people over the new wall.
Thanks OS. An interesting system. You don't seem preoccupied with fund expenses. Have you ever considered using etfs ? Obviously you prefer funds so you must have your reasons.
I didn't read anything in the article that proved that admitting making a mistake means that you will make less of them. The author thinks that, but doesn't substantiate any proof. Correlating this to investing, are we supposed to go with the manag…
I read somewhere that AF are planning to come out with F shares without the 12B fee in January. We'll see. I would be interested in investing in these shares of Income Fund of America and/or Capital Income Builder since I am near retirement, and wou…
Not to change the subject, but why do we say " a pair of pants" when in fact, it refers to only one of them? A pair of gloves makes sense, since there are actually two of them.
OK, let me put this another way. If the fund were to loose 20%, would I also loose 20% of the income that I had been receiving prior to the loss, or would I receive the same income per share (let's say each share received 1$ income per year, would t…
Hold on there Ted. Hate to be the one defending fpacx ( even though I happen to own the fund), but lets compare the 20 year returns, available at marketwatch. Fpacx: $43,123 since 1997. Vwelx: $28,589 since 1997
Thanks Ted. Being that the basic premise of the article is..."In a nutshell, it comes down to lower fund expenses and higher portfolio manager ownership of the fund.", I thought that the load should have been mentioned. Opting for the C shares wou…
What I don't understand is why there is something important about looking back at the ten year returns of mutual funds in the same general group. As if it offers some kind of prediction of future returns. I compared the results of glrbx, fpacx, oa…
On Marketwatch, when you look up a fund, you are shown what a $10,000 invested in 1997 is worth today. Here are the results of a few popular funds:
GLRBX: $26,488
FPACX: $41,022
OAKBX: $30,927
VBINX: $21,956
BERIX: $30,606
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Funny that nobody has mentioned the insurance companies, that will have piles of cash rolling in. Perhaps they will be even better investments that the healthcare companies?
Bee, I imagine that you would probably have to pay an adviser to have access to the cheapest share class. One way of getting in cheaper would be to buy the short term bond fund (2.5% load), and then transfer your shares over to the fund that you wa…
Don't forget folks, that withdrawals of over $10,000 in cash are required to be reported to the gub'mint as well. If you decide that instead of withdrawing $20,000, you will go to the bank 4 times and take out $5000, then you could be reported for …
With allocation funds, I worry more about the funds taking a big hit in a bear market than paying higher fees. If I buy an index fund, besides knowing about the low fees, I know that the fund will follow the market down to it's bottom. This is a giv…
Hank, I agree with you about the past 15 years don't have anything to do with the coming 15 years. But let's not attribute that only to the James fund. That statement covers ALL funds. Assuming Vanguard has a better research department than James…
If one were going to choose FPNIX, Why not consider BSBIX? The institutional shares are almost half the cost of FPNIX .30% vs. .56%? What would be the advantage over BSBIX? The performance seems very similar as well.
Bob C., do you think that IVFIX is worth the extra expense ratio over PID? If the fund had existed in 2008, I probably could have answered my own question.