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What makes more sense? $50,000 (plus $49.95 fee) into CBLDX (ER of 0.91%), or $50,000 (no fee) into CBLVX (ER of 1.16%). Probably would be a long holding time. The advantage of CBLVX would allow additional investments without a fee. The bottom lin…
The other question, which is more personal and Bobpa does not have to answer is does he need an emergency fund? A small one, but he knows he needs to increase it. from the original post. He is asking me if he should sell all and eliminate his bala…
I have it in my Schwab account and there are times when I want to move distributions from other funds into VWINX, but the $75.00 fee discourages that if the amount is not significant. That is the reason to look for another fund that is no-load.
My five funds are PRWCX, OSTVX, VWINX, PMEFX, and CIBFX. The remaining 23% is in WBALX, JHQAX, INPFX, RPHIX, SCHD, and Cash. I use Merriman's 60/40 index portfolio as a benchmark. Presently doing about 3% better than it has. Since WBALX, JHQAX, an…
These 5 funds make up 5% of the total portfolio. They all at one point had greatly appreciated in value in the past year, but in the last 6 weeks have moved down significantly. Overall I am up in value from the initial investment, but down consider…
The question was asked light-heartedly. Just to make a decision now and come back in 12 months and see how you would have done if you actually had made the investment.
If I follow through with purchasing RPHIX, I will be selling TRBUX and PRWBX and using RPHIX as a place to hold short-term dollars in addition to a year's worth of expense money in a money market account. Make sense?
What are you attempting to do??? Simplify!!! I have finally realized my investing skills are not serving me well. I only need 2-3% at the most from my portfolio to supplement my other income at this point, so even the choices I am moving into may …
I have been using indexes(SFNNX, SWISX, SFILX, SFENX) for my stock portion of my portfolio, but it appears that when it comes to international investing managed funds may be a better way to go to recapture the loss in that portion of the portfolio. …
