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Recently moved our junk bond position to investment grade. Junk bonds have a fairly large exposure to oil company debt and with oil prices down, there could be more defaults.
Looking at equity/fixed income Morningstar has FBALX at 72% stocks and VBINX at 56% stocks. FBALX should do better in a bull stock market and VBINX should be less risky and do better in a bear stock market. FBALX being actively managed could chang…
Janus Balanced fund (JABAX) did not make the cut in the linked article. I have owned it off and on and was happy with it. It took me along time to forgive Janus for their shenanigans referred to above but finally did, though not currently holding …
My understanding is that you can tell where a vehicle was assembled by the vehicle ID number, for example starting with 1 being USA, 2 being Canada, 3 being Mexico. My 09 Chevy Silverado was assembled in Mexico. So much for the hot dogs, apple pi…
