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For what interest it might hold: "Is It Time To Rotate Out Of High-Yield CEFs?" posted today on SeekingAlpha by Left Banker
http://seekingalpha.com/article/4041447-time-rotate-high-yield-cefs?uprof=46&isDirectRoadblock=false
Try this for part 2:
http://www.barrons.com/articles/2017-roundtable-part-2-manual-for-a-mixed-up-market-1484976857
Nevermind, this doesn't work. Sometimes I am able to copy the title of the article and paste it into my browser (Safari) search box…
@hank - you asked "What are "alternative facts"?" Was that a serious question? If so it was Ms. Conways' explanation for what our lying eyes were telling us that just ain't so. I think.
Ask your president and/or his new team because it's a new one on me. Sure could have used them back in my grad school days though. It was hard remembering the actual facts.
With the proliferation of "fake news" and "alternative facts" these reading skills become ever more imperative. However I think folks will continue to be more interested in watching the crash happen or observing the aftermath rather than discovering…
@msf - as the insurance rep explained it to me they use the same rationale for auto and property i.e. your credit score correlates (slightly) with responsibility which might correlate (slightly) with careful management and upkeep of your property an…
@Low_Tech - in my case everything you said is true and like you I've never been late with a payment and I live below my means. However, most if not all of what you and I pay for by borrowing is affected by our credit score including our ability to e…
Everything said at the Investopedia site is true. Suggestions are made and 'bonus' you are not bombarded by an endless series of pop-ups, flashes, or whatever. I also appreciate knowing why and how certain things affect one's score. I'll never unde…
I have been using the CreditKarma site for nearly 2 years now with nary a problem. Once a month I get an email to check my score but that's it. Once or twice I've been notified that an entity has pulled my report (a 'hard hit' in industry parlance) …
This doesn't address your question with respect toward the accuracy of forecasters but it may provide some food for thought.
Experts Forecast Long-Term Stock and Bond Returns: 2017 Edition
http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=787…
Intriguing no doubt but the scarcity of info is definitely a drawback. Compounding that are the transaction fees for purchase, loads, 12b-1 fees for anything less than the $100K institutional share class and no insight as to the expense ratio. I wou…
Hi catch. It has been my experience to be notified of all pending class action proceedings by or through the brokerage firm (Fidelity, Scottrade etc.) where the position is held. Notification always happens after a lead plaintiff has been chosen/ide…
Granted she lost John and just one of the reasons she did was her opponents promises/claims to drain the swamp especially and/or including those Wall Street types. Do you see the irony here?
So I did some calculating of the returns. According to M* my entire mess was up 16.8% in 2016 (Brokerage: 18.6%, SEP-IRA: 12.1, Roth: 21.8). I'll take it.
To be fair, I don't invest much with mutual funds anymore mostly because I suck at selecting …
From the Hallmark website linked by davidrmoran:
"Employees:
More than 27,000 people worldwide work for Hallmark and its subsidiaries: 9,500 full-time and 17,800 part-time employees.
In the U.S., Hallmark employs 20,000 people: 5,600 work full-tim…
Name a fund company, any fund company for that matter, that would lower expenses if all or the vast majority of their customers opted for electronic delivery of their relevant material.
Not really. Since Tampa bay or Dan Hardy or whatever else they call themselves this month brought it up I was just curious about what song they were referring to with Prince being a hometown boy and all.
With deepest apologies for discussing music related topics on a mutual fund discussion board but what Prince copyrighted material are we talking about here? Name the song.
