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@mcmarasco,
Since my holdings are all with American Century, my suggestions would be narrowly focused. I hold ASDVX for the short duration unconstrained bond. AMJVX is their multi-asset income fund and ALNNX is their alternative income fund which I…
@Old_Joe, there is a link on their website that goes into some detail what they do. Very informative.
https://ipro.americancentury.com/en/landing-pages/the-stowers-institute-for-medical-research.html
Jim Stowers, the founder of American Century…
Seems like this subject was discussed last week?
To repeat what I said last week, lumping alt funds into one group is like saying mutual funds are all the same. There are obviously different alt funds. Income funds did well during the down spike or…
@mcmarasco,
"I'm leaning towards a M/A fund instead of bonds, simply because the future interest rate movement will be higher and that is generally not good for bond funds. Am I off on this? Any further comments, thoughts and/or suggestion are gre…
Lumping the alts together like these articles do is not the best journalism either. In any case alt funds are good as a diversifier for a portfolio at around 6-12%.
I would not expect a long short fund to outperform this past week but multi asset …
I tend to prefer unconstrained funds in this sector to give more flexibility to the managers. My holding in ASDVX has held up very well in this turmoil of late.
Let's just bring back the Roaring Twenties. No worries. Spend like there is no tomorrow. Who cares, debt is just money you owe yourself.
That period ended in misery and despair.
My one and only post on this thread since Davidr will beat me with …
A bit confusing today for me as well. Perhaps the late dump didn't catch all stocks? PBE was up as well as AIOIX which was up 2.71%. Being an international fund I expected much worse.
A lot of pumping going on in this market to make any gains for …
China is way down this am. The afternoon session should continue the slide. Intervention by the govt failed horribly. The markets need to correct.
I would suggesting cinching up those belts and straps. Monday in the U.S. looks to be worse than Fri…
Is this a going out of business sale? Obviously they know something like future redemptions.
With that in mind, I'm not sure I would have money in any of their funds.
My opinion? This is not over yet. Today could be very bad or surprising. That's the market.
A couple of months ago I started to lean bearish. This market is obviously broken. The big question , is this a correction or the start of a bear market?
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rjb122 is correct. That will give you the number you are looking for.
As far as Asia goes, this is not over yet. Japan's economy is showing signs of slowing. If two of the three top economies of the world are in trouble, then I'll let you guess on…
Fortunately, I have gotten rid of my EM fund and out of Matthews entirely. The Chinese are not to be trusted and this yuan debacle as I call it is proof. The govt is trying to calm the fears but they were the ones who pulled the trigger. All the cur…
@Sven. Correct. Mobius has his following from many years ago but investors today can use other cheaper funds and ETFs to accomplish the same thing. He became too expensive for the product he produced.
I did like his commercials but never invested …
People will have to adjust to living with less. I sense that is happening already based on our so called recovery which is sluggish and spotty.
Caution- tabloid.
I'm surprised that the Krug didn't mention that not having your own currency is what started this mess. Sure, Greece would be heavily in debt but it would be in drachma. Their problem, their fix.
The UK was smart to not adopt the € and stayed with…
