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rjb112
Well thanks for all your great instruction and telling me about it.
At the end of last year and especially the beginning of this year, emerging markets stocks got slammed. I don't recall the date, but there was a big inflection point sometime this year, and after that emerging markets stocks haven't looked back. T…
"Egypt said it is ready to boost agricultural deliveries to Russia by 30 percent, Putin said."
Very interesting to hear that Egypt has an extra 30% capacity just sitting there ready to go whenever needed.
Do the citizens of Egypt really have such …
@rjb112
PV*(1+r)^n=FV, so I used .02 for r, 65 for n and I rounded the future value from the article to $4.2 million. When I solved for the present value it came out to $1.159 million which I rounded to $1.2 million just to be generous.
@LLJB, lo…
Negative 4.4 returns for small caps for 7 years in a row. Takes some cajones to make that call. Setting a reminder for 2021.
Yeah, that's quite a forecast. It would be much easier to gloss over that forecast if it was made by Harry Dent, Dr. Doom (…
....but I thought we were talking about what we as parents or grandparents can do for Charlotte by contributing $1 each day for 18 years. If I did the math right, if we use the Fed's target rate of 2% inflation, then her $4.2 million at age 65 is w…
I always enjoyed Spock's idea of getting rich. Take a penny and double it each day. In less than a month you will have $1 million.
Very nice JohnChisum
From my internet search, looks like if you start with a penny and double it every day, after 30…
thanks mrdarcey. I'll have to take a look at those. I believe there have been some articles this year, possibly one by Larry Swedroe, saying that dividends were getting quite popular and therefore expensive.....so that the P/E ratios on some of th…
Can anyone provide clear details on identifying and differentiating "US High Quality"
from "US Large"? What are specific mutual funds and exchange traded funds that would correctly fit into the category of "US High Quality" per the GMO chart?
thanks mrdarcey , that's good
Apparently also in this new book, Rational Expectations, he presents his 'forecast' for future performance by asset class. Would be nice to see that. Something along the lines of what GMO does, although I don't know …
His No Brainer Portfolio.......
Why has he limited the foreign stocks to Europe only?
And the 25% S&P 500 and 25% small cap index.....that's an unusual "tilt". Almost all the "tilters" tilt to small cap value
If I remember where he discuss…
@Bitzer: How about his 25% No Brainer ?
Regards,
Ted
http://www.marketwatch.com/lazyportfolio/portfolio/bernsteins-no-brainer
His No Brainer Portfolio.......
Why has he limited the foreign stocks to Europe only?
And the 25% S&P 500 and 25% sma…
From the article:
"Do these services deliver higher returns? According to reports issued by some managed account providers, including Morningstar and Financial Engines, the accounts deliver a performance edge of more than 3 percentage points a yea…
I saved them as bookmarks on my desktop. I wonder if your links coud be posted in the "search tools" or "resources" area of the MFO website along with other (additional) helpful research sites? This would than combine "market conditions" with "fund…
Old_Skeet, some of those links are just awesome! The ones from the Wall Street Journal and Morningstar are extremely useful to me.
Would be great if they could be kept somewhere for easy access, like under the Resource tab or elsewhere.
Thanks!
I also have been thinking....doing this cutting edge thing again (lol): buying a single bond. Has anybody else done this? I guess what I'm saying is how is it done?
Regarding "how is it done"?
You can purchase an individual bond at a brokerage…
Thanks Ted for posting. I have most always found your links and have usefull information. It is much appreciated.
Old_Skeet
Ted, I also very much appreciate your links.
They are a veritable library of market information
Thanks
US launched limited air strikes in Iraq.
JohnChisum, I believe it was authorized to strike if necessary. But I don't believe any
strikes were launched.
I think 2 things happened:
1. Authorization of strikes if necessary, e.g., if US citizens we…
Yes, you're correct. In that case, the alternative might be to take a screen shot, upload it to Jing or an equivalent service, and then link to that. (This essentially converts the image to a format which the MFO Image Tool can use, and a location t…
Very good chrisw, that appears to be the way to find these reports. I'm on the site now.
And the "Statement of Assets and Liabilities" has the data. Both in the Annual reports and the Semi-annual reports.
Now I'm looking at the SEC website to se…
I like the MFO Image tool. Much more direct than doing a screen capture, etc.
But I'm noticing now that a lot of graphic images on Morningstar, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance and elsewhere do not have file extensions ["endings"] that appear to…
Let's see if the ones I tried multiple times (prior posts, above) from Morningstar and the Wall Street Journal work
Here's the Morningstar graph of Pimco Total Return. Note that the graphic image does not have one of the endings [file extensions]…
Sorry, this is a little of topic:
Sometimes I speed up selling a fund that is on my "sell list" when I see excessive outflows, just to avoid the negative effects of the fund being forced to sell (usually in a down market). My question is: Where…
I do see that the annual reports have the total assets for the current and previous year, but they don't show it over the past several years.
Morningstar (under "Filings") just has the most recent annual report.
I'm assuming the individual fund w…
Putin Acting Badly Again
"Medvedev said Russia is also considering banning Western carriers from flying over Russia on flights to and from Asia — a move that would significantly swell costs and increase flight time. He said a decision on that hasn’…
Cancel.
Accipiter, Catch, the URL button is very easy to use. Nice tool.
Can't get the Image button to post a graphic image [although Jing does an admirable job]; tried it multiple times with multiple tweeks of the method. Even tried using simple …
Testing 234 Image Button
MFO has the word "undefined" in the box for the URL of the image. I tried removing that word, and also leaving it there......same result each time.
I've reviewed the correct way to find the URL of a graphic image usin…
Testing 123 Testing the Image Button
I entered this in the MFO box that comes up when you click the image button:
http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3021-peyield.html
Then MFO puts it into code:
Now, Post Comment
I've tried this a few tim…
Testing 123 Test Link To MFO Home Page
OK, I see what the second button from the right does, it just inserts the HTML code.
Then you just copy and paste the URL into the box provided by MFO. That's much easier than posting a link onto a Google blo…
scott, US bonds do provide good value relative to foreign bonds. The yield on almost all foreign government bonds is substantially lower than the yield on US government bonds.
"What are some European bonds yielding?". Scott, I have seen that data …
Check out fundmojo.com. Not perfect, but not bad for a free web site.
I've attached a link for PTTRX.
http://www.fundmojo.com/mutualfund/fund_netasset_report/mutualfund/PTTRX
Check out fundmojo.com. Not perfect, but not bad for a free web site.
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Paul, in the past I've used the Wellstrade site for this information:
Enter Symbol
Select "Get Mutual Fund Profile"
Total Net Assets By Year
Kevin
Kevin, for the fund I looked up, here's what I saw under Total Net Assets By Year
I wasn't ab…
