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From @rforno, "I think Gemini will be one of the few folks that survive this stuff"
My neighbor whom I mentioned earlier in this thread who works in the crypto universe stated last night that he believes crypto.com could be the next to fall.
He t…
There is much I don't understand regarding crypto, therefor I don't invest/speculate in it. Over the last handful of years I have tried to educate myself about crypto a bit as my neighbor is a national sales manager for a company now owned by NCR wh…
Now the WSJ is reporting that FTX is looking into a potential hack and more than $400 million worth of crypto funds appear to be missing. And the beat goes on in crypto land. Makes one think not a single honest person is involved in the business, on…
Read in the WSJ that only a month ago SBF stated at the Journal's Tech Live conference he was interested in buying "something" that would get more "mom and pop" traders on board. Guess he was seeing he needed to expand the pool of victims to keep hi…
New accounts for PRWCX can be opened if you hold a minimum $250,000 balance directly with TRP. That minimum balance can be spread across different funds, including brokerage accounts.
I noticed on the TRP website for the portfolio of PRWCX dated 8/31/22 that GE is no longer listed as a top 10 holding. Don't know if this is due to trimming the position a bit or total elimination of it.
The following individuals are listed by Giroux at the end of his letter and unless I am mistaken, they are all dedicated staff to PRWCX (Mike Signore, Chen Tian, Nikhil Shah, Vivek Rajeswaran, Brian Solomon, and Jared Duda) in addition to all the TR…
@Crash
"I believe David Giroux invests in this BL fund for his bond allocation."
Per PRWCX/TRAIX Semi Annual Report dated 6/30/22.
1.6% of fund assets held in TRP Floating Rate Fund, Institutional share class.
13.3% of assets held directly in b…
Speaking of guaranteed money, we are taking advantage of online checking account, SoFi Checking of 1.25% with a monthly direct deposit, .7% without a monthly direct deposit. Our local bank is .01%.
No minimums, no fees, FDIC insured. We've used So…
This is a little late, but 2 weeks ago exchanged some PRFRX for TRAIX/PRWCX and plan to do that monthly through the end of the year in our taxable account. Maxed out our 2022 IRA contributions back in February, all into TRAIX.
One week ago we did …
Our bank, Westfield Bank of Ohio (7 locations) isn't even open on Saturdays and both the lobby and drive-thru close at 5 pm on Fridays (4 pm M-TH). I'm sure their reasoning is because of electronic banking options far fewer people bother to go to ac…
A few quotes from the interview.
Giroux: First of all, I would say, if you think about the fixed-income sleeve of the CAF, we've never really been Barclays Agg kind of index. I know a lot of our peers are. We historically haven't owned a lot of Tr…
PRWCX Annual Report dated 12/31/21.
Bank Loans = 10.7%
Floating Rate Fund I-Class TFAIX = 1.2%
Corporate Bonds = 7.1%
Money Market = 10.8%
Bank loans were almost 12% of the portfolio at that time.
If it weren't for PRWCX/TRAIX we would most likely be taking advantage of TDF's. That could happen in the future if Giroux leaves/retires or if the 50-70 moderate allocation space becomes too equity heavy for us.
Revisiting TRP Emerging Europe (TREMX) one week later finds the fund up around 1%, YTD -85.27% compared to -86.24%. AUM down to $23 million according to M* today. From what I recall last Saturday on the TRP website, AUM were something like $145 mill…
TRP Emerging Europe (TREMX) is down -86.24% YTD. 67.61% of assets in Russian stocks. Looks like you can still purchase shares if one has an inkling to do so. Schwab is only allowing redemptions.
Top 10 Holdings
MonthlyQuarterly
Represents 68.47% o…
How about that, Giroux has finally purchased Apple which he has stated in the recent past has been his biggest miss. In the past he and his team have never been able to justify the purchase based on valuation and anticipated sales growth metrics.
How about 93%?
Not advocating our method for everyone by any means but the KISS method is working great for us. Tried diversifying into other allocation funds back in 2011 after first investing in PRWCX in 2006 and all that did was cost us money! …
Our KISS of a portfolio ended the year with 80% in PRWCX/TRAIX and 20% in AKREX. So, not a bad year with low to mid 70's exposure to equities by year end.
Our average age is 56 and probably have been on the light side of equities for our age the p…
Recently reduced our equity % by around 5%. Did so by selling shares from an all-equity fund and added to TRAIX and our holdings in PRFRX.
Really part of rebalancing as our equity stake had risen higher than desired.
My wife and I did decide to move our accounts back to TRP from Schwab to take advantage of the new Summit Program, primarily to access TRP institutional share classes at greatly reduced minimums and access to closed TRP funds. With us holding around…
TRP is trying to get some of their bigger investors away from the online mutual fund supermarkets so they can reduce the amount of their management fees they have to pay to Fidelity, Schwab, etc.
For several years I've considered returning our acc…
Here is a Q & A concerning access to closed TRP funds.
"Certain T. Rowe Price mutual funds (known as “closed funds”) are generally closed to new investors and new accounts. Clients assigned to the Select Services tier ($250,000 Summit balance…
I was concerned about possible integration issues, so a year ago we took advantage of Schwab waiving account closing fees at TDA and made the move before it was done in mass.
If I'm interpreting portfolio data correctly from the TRP website dated 9/30/21, PRWCX equity allocation has increased to 75.68%.
Sector Allocation
As a percentage of Total Net Assets
As of 9/30/2021
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
14.33%
HEALTH CARE
13.58…
To be accurate on the fund's holdings, go direct to the source - TRP annual and semiannual reports. As of 6/30/21, the semi-annual report stated:
bonds, 18% = 10.4% bank loans and 7.8% corporate bonds.
cash, 10%
Options, 1%
Stocks, 72%
Sven,
The…
One of the portfolio stats that jumped out at me was that bond holdings only accounted for 1.4% of fund assets. I'm a bond novice compared to many here who are able to speak with incredible knowledge, but this fact certainly says much about Giroux's…
Here is the PRWCX portfolio as of 8/31/2021 from the TRP website.
Portfolio
$52.23 billion
Total Net Assets as of 8/31/2021
Asset
Allocation
Domestic Stock
68.90%
Other
28.00%
Domestic Bond
1.40%
Foreign Stock
0.90%
Convertibles
0.80%
Top 10 Hold…
