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I couldn't post this link in my reply above:
Top Spine Surgeons Reap Royalties, Medicare Bounty WSJ December 20, 2010
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703858404576214642193925996.html
Reply to @JimJ:
Dr. JimJ,
The health care problem that is a bigger issue than the device tax is Medicare funding. With aging demographics, the Medicare runaway train can not continue unabated. The WSJ has been highlighting Medicate fraud for th…
Where is quick way to get the 10M SMA?
I found quick summary for June 2013 at link below which includes iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury (IEF) and the PowerShares DB Commodity Index Tracking (DBC), and Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US (VEU) which…
"Why the stock market rally may continue
Unless the economy rolls over or quantitative easing ends, stocks could keep rising."
This commentary below makes sense to me. So this is reason 6.
https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/market-and-economic-i…
TA is probably good for individual stock but not great for index.
Yamada basically called for sell signal at mar 2009 bottom
http://advisoranalyst.com/glablog/2009/03/08/yamada-sees-44-of-nyse-stocks-under-10-as-shocking/
Pinnacle Value is up 16% for year with 30% cash, while ARIVX is up 7% with 50% cash. Both great for risk averse. Should I add ARIVX to a couple of Roth accounts which are sitting in cash just in time for fiscal cliff?
Reply to @kevindow:
MFLDX, Interesting Bloomerberg interview on Emerging Markets. Manager states that super luxury firms opening up in Brazil, etc are bad omens for equity markets. Probably dispartity in income preceding slowdown.
http://www.blo…
I saw the Wells Fargo Advantage Growth Fund from the Bloomberg article about Yacktman but didn't notice the no-load version. Would be ideal to DCA this fund.
Esteemed Judge Richard Posner, a Chicago school adherent until 2008, has a more refined interpretation of capitalism. His views are outlined in his book "A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression".
For a quick sum…
CathyG,
If you take funds that have high volatility such as CGM, best time to buy them is when they are deep in red, totally out of favor. Same applies to sector funds, ETFs, there is usually reversion to the mean so if Energy sector has huge drop…
MJG,
I checked a few funds and results are not consistent.
at low-risk, VFINX
period 12/31/2006 to 3/31/2009
Portfolio Total Return: -40.9%
The above portfolio's total return was -40.9%, outperforming the S&P 500's return of -43.7%. The total …
MJG,
Good advice, but now that you have done all the work, how is the poor annuity salesman going to earn commission for his Ferrari? (There was a VA salesman who posted his Ferrari picture on our housing blog bragging how VA serve the customer wi…
I asked about software to calulate correlation last year on Fund Alarm and got no answer. I found the site below that seems to incorporate spreadsheet data in easy to use form. Can you guys check your data to see if it matches?
http://low-risk-in…
