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Interesting comparison of two active threads at this moment. This thread has 271 views and 174 comments. A lot of people are reading and commenting.
The thread, "Oil Breaking Below $50/Gundlach on Oil" which is the hot topic of the day/week/month …
It's not tiresome. M* is supposed to be the service to depend on. If they cannot get simple pricing of NAVs correct, then the rest of their data becomes suspect. It's too bad there is no real competitor.
We should take anything from Zero Hedge with a grain of salt. First, the author cannot even spell MORE correctly, and these kinds of articles and situations tend to inflame the masses over there. Just read the comments.
Yes it is something to watc…
Listening to Gundlach, I wish he would have gone into a bit more detail as to why he felt so strong about oil prices. I would have liked to hear his perspective. If I am not mistaken, $42 was the trigger point.
@Old_Skeet, This week should be telling as traders are coming back from their Christmas - New Year time off. It will be interesting to see the volume numbers as well as a confirmation indicator which ever way the markets go.
@equalizer, I see your point there. Most of us are diversified including myself so these types of exercises are not paid too much attention too. As long as we stay away from chasing yields which can be tempting, it all works out in the end.
An additional thought; depending on where this money came from, if it is cash it might be a good idea to dollar cost average over a year considering where the market is at now. If this was invested money, it would help in what kind of assets the mon…
Thanks @MJG for that comment. Charlie Munger believes in efficient spending of money not matter the purpose or the entity whether you and I or the government. Waste is waste.
While my views of Buffet have gone south in recent years, I alway enjoy …
Great idea for a thread. Thanks @mrc70.
I liked the forecast from Blackrock. Lots of detail and reasoning. Ivy Funds also had a good presentation. Some of the others, most notably Fidelity, seem to hedge their predictions.
I agree with the premi…
Thanks @MJG. I appreciate your linking to those charts.
Oregon is a football machine. The big boys of old had better take notice. Oregon has been good for some years now but this years the stars aligned for them. It must be those cattle rancher's …
Thanks @bee. There does seem to be a general thinking that this market will have a good 2015. I think that's true for the first part. The usual tendency when we come off a good year are expectations of another one as the circumstances have not chang…
@joe74 mentions a good point. There were a number of funds that were poised to beat the index but distributions took that honor away.
That's the way the ball bounces.
It appears to me than any attempt to have a pure European play means small caps. Looking at the holdings of FEU, they are mostly global corporations and many are companies most of us have in our funds already like Glaxo, Nestle, etc, these being the…
"What if I spend 4% and make 8%, what should I do with the extra money.....
Dumb stuff...Those Guidelines...Forget about it..."
Save it for the years your portfolio goes negative.
I don't have the numbers off hand but @willmatt72 might have enough assets in which he would have to pay the higher rate on cap gains. Am I correct? In either case, tax planning is always prudent. The less going to Uncle Sam means more to invest.
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