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rjb112
Well thanks for all your great instruction and telling me about it.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/08/us-life-expectancy-hits-record-high/16874039/
Life expectancy in the USA hits a record high
Life expectancy in the USA rose in 2012 to 78.8 years – a record high.
However, from the link above, …
@rjb112: Yellen's hint of a rate increase this December was nothing more than a bluff. She is simply testing the waters to see what kind of reaction will come from Wall St. Their was a small sell-off, but the fact remains the economy is still in …
Will the next 30 be as smooth?
Have no idea how smooth it will be.....but have a very good idea that it won't be as profitable...........as interest rates have fallen for 34 years, making bonds a good investment.
Have no idea what rates will do,…
VBMFX which is categorized as an intermediate corporate fund has an incredibly smooth 30 year chart. Will the next 30 be as smooth?
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bee,
VBMFX isn't really a corporate fund.
It's heaviest on Treasuries, then close to equal on co…
The floating rate funds do look promising.
John, I think they do look promising from the viewpoint of their lack of sensitivity to interest rate increases. For example, the fund below has a duration of 0.40 years.
T. Rowe Price Floating Rate PR…
I wonder what will the adviser do if I seek their services: with accounts directly at vanguard, TRP, janus and prudential.
They will only manage the assets you house at Vanguard. So if you "seek their services with accounts.....at TRP, janus and pr…
I'm 50 years old with more than $100,000 sitting in banks and credit unions earning about 0.50 % in interest.
While you are considering the many options in the various posts to this thread, you can easily double your interest from the 0.50% you are …
Lets gamble with the big boys or Just make decent returns in the U.S. stock market?
Your choice...
Gundlach has done pretty good. My choice is to do both.
What about the foreign stock markets?
Maybe next time I will go to Mexico.
http://www.riograndedental.com/
@Dex: looks very good, except for one thing:
Juarez, Mexico is very dangerous!! One of the most dangerous cities in the world.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-most-viole…
@Dex, I'm scheduled for 3 crowns for next week!
@InformalEconomist: I've found that typically, dental insurance is not very good.....it often "caps" (pun intended) out at $1500 or less......and when you subtract the premiums....well, it's typically …
@catch22, yes, plenty of time...head over to Wisdom Tree and choose your investment...
Yes, looks like very few have called the bond market correctly........
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@LLJB, don't know their record.
I do recall that their chief investment str…
So did I, Junkster. I am proudly a lefty. Good employers give lefties a 10% bump in pay because we are so talented. For some reason, I worked for 42 years without finding such an employer.
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I like that.
Excellent
I'd like to hear some suggestions of open-ended mutual funds that invest in European stocks and/or real estate and hedge in dollar terms. Thanks in advance.
This is an ETF, not an "open-ended mutual fund", but it shouldn't make much difference for m…
HERESY....Does Bogle know about this? Does anyone seem it strange that 30% of Bogle's company is comprised of Managed funds and about same percentage of his personal investments are managed....but for you he says buy indexes...go figure...
Tampabay,…
Thanks for the information. He clearly struck-out on THAT score. I'll stick with him, though. DLFNX is a small position. Today, I just added a tiny bit to it, too.
His funds have done well. Better than his predictions. Then again these markets of r…
OK. I'm not in any munis. Was he correct?
Crash, nope......he wasn't correct. Nothing even remotely close to a "major collapse."
Here's how muni bonds have done in each calendar year starting 2010
We'll look at : Vanguard Intermediate-Term Tax Ex…
From the 2011 article:
By Jonathan R. Laing
Updated Feb. 21, 2011
Gundlach made a couple of very significant predictions in 2011:
http://online.barrons.com/articles/SB50001424052970204442204576144662301971254?tesla=y
Celebrated bond-fund manage…
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-yellen-says-rate-hikes-but-not-too-many-are-coming-2015-03-27?siteid=nbch
“I expect that conditions may warrant an increase in the federal funds rate target sometime this year,” Yellen told a conference sponsor…
Dearest Linkster,
I'll happily take you up on a bet that your assessment is incorrect, regarding:
"Linkster says, "read my lips, no rate increase until 4/16"
The author correctly points out that long duration bond funds and long duration zero coupon bond funds will do very poorly in a rising rate environment.
However, his next point, I do not believe is generally correct when compared to other bond sect…
Now Tampabay and Ted, we had a guest (Morningstar) on our celebrated MFO website, and it was appropriate to thank them for posting and dialogue a bit with them, rather than just ignore them. After all, a Morningstar representative did take the time…
Dear Lizzie,
Thanks very much for your post.
One of the themes that we have observed for quite some time now is that when a fund price has not been updated by Morningstar, it has been updated by Yahoo Finance.
I appreciate your explanation that y…
David Iben who is the Portfolio Manager for Kopernik KGGIX/KGGAX is off to a rough start. Former manager of Nuveen Tradewinds Value Opportunities and had excellent returns.
YTD Down -15.37
I'm seeing this as YTD up 2.92% KGGAX
@Mark...thanks for responding. Even with the trimming, AIG is still a 40% holding for FAIRX...I may have to suggest it be renamed F-AIG-X.
@David_Snowball...This M* "dual descriptor" reminds me of the oxymoron, "Jumbo Shrimp".
Should one be more …
Vanguard must be thinking that index funds are getting boring. I wonder how Mr. Bogle feels about this new fund.
http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2015/03/01/top-portfolio-products-vanguard-to-launch-alt-fund
I can pretty well tell you that Mr. Bogle is…
Under current tax laws one can potentially realize a lot of capital gains during retirement and pay no income tax; just stay out of the 25% bracket.
A single filer gets into the 25% tax bracket starting at $36,901