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Interesting graphic displaying companies by revenue in 2019...Energy companies look good...also, Walmart's revenue was twice what Amazon has done so far in 2019 ($514B vs $233B)
https://screencast.com/t/ez3tesnf8T6
Article:
https://howmuch.net/arti…
Thanks @Ted
Russo discussed the value of investing in family owned businesses
US List:
businessinsurance.org/the-10-biggest-family-businesses-in-the-u-s/
International List:
https://businessinsider.com/the-worlds-21-biggest-family-owned-businesse…
@rforno, if you are presently 90 % invested in equities and your equities tank, how will you buy equities "hand over fist"? One needs cash or non-equity correlated assets to exchange into equities when they fall in price.
Over the last couple of ye…
PRWCX has been a buyer of GE as of late and David Giroux commented that he wouldn't be surprised if it was his best performing holding over the next few years. I'd like to hear his take on these accusations.
Mentioned here:
https://mutualfundobser…
@mcmarasco
After some searching I found this article written by Bruce Miller that sheds a little light on using open ended mutual funds to fund retirement withdrawals.
Back testing isn't full proof, but it helps shape the discussion in this arti…
Today I inquired with Schwab on matching Merrill Edge's offer $1,000 bonus for rolling over assets.@msf They are not presently extending that match.
Is anyone familiar with Merrill Edge's platform, fee structure, customer service, customer experie…
@Derf, I shared my concerns with an IRA specialist at USAA. He was very attentive, but he had little else to share other than Schwab aligns with USAA's mission of quality service at a fair price. Presumably the $1.8B is going into improving the serv…
hmm...so USAA nets $1.8B to hand me and 1 million other members over to Schwab. We collectively hold $90B in assets. Can't we just move (roll over) our assets ourselves to Charles Schwab (or elsewhere) and personally receive cash or other incentives…
The 2-10 spread inverts months before a recession, he said, and then it steepens. It already inverted briefly, according to Gundlach.
“What you want to watch out for is the steepening to start,” he said. “It would increase the probability of a rece…
When we save into tax deferred retirement account we push taxes (on income) into the future.
It would be an interesting stat to compare present day tax savings in the year that the IRA contribution was made to the tax liability on that contributio…
Thanks @Ted,
I like the idea of a GRA (Guaranteed Retirement Account).
Here's an example of allocation and performance of the CT State Pension plans.
https://ott.ct.gov/pensiondocs/fundperf/FundPerformance01312019.pdf
I see a big push back from …
@Puddnhead...Thanks for the shout out. I've been more of a reader and the a writer recently here. Thanks to many new and old contributors I continue to enjoy visiting and reading MFO's threads.
What's working for you these days?
Sometimes good inv…
@Derf, what are your thoughts on MAPIX as oppose to MASCX?
Also, it appears small cap foreign funds have been hit hard recently. PRIDX (Foreign SC), OGIYX (Global SC), and Matthews MSMLX (Asian SC).
Like most kids growing up in the sixties I breathed baseball. Not old enough for acid, free love and Woodstock I got "high" on "fungo flies" and the smell of bubble gum on cardboard (baseball cards).
I had notebooks and notebooks of hand made box …
@Old_Skeet, Thanks for bringing this fund to our attention. Others have mentioned PRMSX
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/search?Search=prmsx
and still other ODMAX (including you and @Ted)
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/search?Search…
@Crash...I will ask Chris Sales to verify, but I do believe the belly button ring was all in fun...
alex-cora-smirks-while-addressing-chris-sales-belly-button
For what it's worth, it turns out Sale wasn't actually hospitalized due to an infection fr…
"By way of comparison, simply investing that same $500/month in one-month t-bills would have given you more than $67k"...without the volatility and sleepless nights. Entering these two scenarios into Portfolio Visualizer produced slightly different,…
Thanks@ Ted,
I'm contemplating the following. Using a credit card offer for 12 month at 0%. The CC has a flat $35 transfer fee and would allow me to pay off a 3.5% personal loan one year early. Paying that loan off 12 months early would save me $52…
VTMFX holds 51% of its fund in tax free munis while also holding 48% in LC/MC equities with a 9% turnover and a 2% yield. A solid choice for someone looking for a tax efficient balance fund. ER = 0.09%
@msf, As best I recall it was John Hancock as the TPA (third party administrator) for the employer's plan. The fund choices seemed to be what you described as clones of other familiar funds with fund identifiers unique to these in house JH funds...a…
This article touches on the concept of Withdrawal Rates (from a retirement portfolio) starting in a low interest environment:
does-the-4-rule-work-in-todays-markets
Thanks @Ted (corrected)
@MikeM...Maybe a better way for me to describe this account is a "self directed Traditional IRA".
Investopedia does a good job of describing what I believe you point out is more commonly referred to as a Self Directed IRA.
what-are-differences-bet…
Other interesting mining news. Chimata Gold Corp (CSE: CAT) owes a idle Tin ore that was operational in Africa in the 1990's. Its tin ore tailings dump has a large stockpile of Lithium (Lithium-rich spodumene deposit).
miningmarketwatch.net/cat.htm
From Bloomberg:
The Shanghai Composite closed at a fresh four-year low on Thursday, cementing its position as the worst global benchmark. China’s market capitalization is down some $3 trillion, knocking it down one notch to number three in global ra…
Miners are not all equal. Here are (10) mining operations that will be able to dig gold profitably even if gold drops to $550 / OZ.
ten-mines-will-make-money-even-gold-price-falls-550
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My SDIRA will hopefully continue to be funded by self employment income until I am 65...maybe beyond (70.5). I decided to keep this investment sim…
Interesting statistic. What surprised me, prior to the income tax (1913) the federal governments largest revenue streams were from tariffs. 30% of total federal revenue came from tariffs. As recently as 2012 tariffs accounted for just 1.7% of federa…
Thanks for the link. I figured I'd post VMSXX mentioned in the interview.
Money market funds are more easily researched directly through the fund house's website.
Here's Vanguard's link:
Vanguard Municipal Money Market Fund (VMSXX)
As a comparis…
