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Robotic Process Automation. Google Deepmind. etc. etc. etc.
The problem is when self preservation kicks in, mostly the data entry jobs will be lost. As in, read a printout and type things in vs. have a Robot use OCR and populate data into an user i…
I actually saw 80 MPH first time on my way back from Big Bend yesterday. I'm glad there are limits.
I would have thought German Autobahns are the "no limit" pink block in Europe. Australia pink is probably desert and they need to outrun wildlife. …
Sorry, but why is this even an article? Hulbert also now getting paid by number of words by Marketwatch?
What an effing job. Now we will wait for Part 2 of this article which will be about 1st week of the year...
Or maybe we will at least be spare…
Shouldn't we be in "short bonds" only and not at all if we are young? I mean, I dunno if yields have to go negative for bond funds to perform like they have been over past several years.
Oh man! I posted this before heading out for vacation. Was not accepting such a response. Thank you very much.
I have to read the thread in its entirety to absorb. I skimmed it a bit and would agree Fidelity, Calamos, Wasatch are overrated. I reach…
I really need to wait for my princess to decide which college she is going to before putting more money to work anyways. Good luck to all with their choices.
FWIW I own the TFS fund. I'm just going to hold and as always not reinvest distributions. I've held their Market Neutral fund too now for a while. This was my new money NOT going to Hussman.
I would also very much like to manage my future, but peop…
Once again, WTF is not working with these funds? And should I wait for another article perhaps once again from the same paper, in another 2 years that could either say, "has not worked", "has worked out"?
Bah!. If anyone wants to make case for the…
Not a subscriber so can't read. Pray someone tell me what did not "work". I'm looking at BLAVX and BGAQX and rueing why I didn't buy them in recent sell off. I also thought the "volatility play" was over.
I continue to own VMVFX and I think it will…
@VintageFreak Just talked to Bruce Fund shareholder services concerning a different matter.Rep named Joe was extremely knowledgable ,answered my concerns beyond expectations.
Yeah, will file application form this weekend.
LOL. @VintageFreak: PRIJX (TRP) ...A very young fund, going back to Sept, 2015.
Now you are talking. You guessed I asked the question because I wanted a place where I could buy without load and at brokerage. I do have an account with TRP and this…
I used the premium screener to find EM equity funds with the lowest p/e ratios and ended up with 8 funds with a p/e below 15 and a p/b below 1.5.
Advisory Research Emerging Markets Opportunities (ADVMX) sort of stands out.
AllianzGI Emerging Market…
FWIW, I don't think he is timing the markets. Like I've said before, his HEDGING is flawed. Option decay should definitely lose the fund every year with a neutral position, but not the amount he is losing.
I know I'm the last person holding this fu…
@VintageFreak
I spoke with a CSR of the transfer agent...record date and payable date are 12/16. I would call again to confirm this information is correct.
Much obliged.
@VintageFreak, You have obviously not visited the MFO Off-Topic forum ! :-)
Kevin
That's just it, though. I also didn't think I would visit MFO to receive SPAM, as in, every single link to every single story that had any remote connection to what …
C'mon, this could affect all those people holding his Janus fund because doesn't he own a huge proportion of the shares? If she takes half of everything then it could impact the rest of the fund's shareholders negatively. If nothing else, it's a d…
the more narrow the sector, the more ANALysis has a role to play. Taking a slice of XLV and declaring victory is ridiculous.
Look at XME. Doing better than VGPMX and the like. Not sure there is a good parallel mutual fund.
According to Morningstar's page on the Bruce Fund, the distribution date last year was the 18th. In previous years it has been as late as December 21. Hope that helps. Dave
Alrighty then. Maybe just do every month for 10 months beginning at Christm…
It is quite amazing they didn't see any danger in index funds in 2014. Such funds needs to be timed. Period. If you bought in 2015 consider yourself lucky, and congratulations. I took a long hard look at this one and passed.
I switched into Vanguards Short Term Inflation funds from its regular fund couple of years back. Was going well for a while, but not this year. Oh well...that's the fund that's taking my slice of "inflation protection" money.
Now regarding VTINX. W…
I look at PRDAX and see its 1-star rating. I start thinking, maybe it is "timing" buy now. Then I see "risk" bar and it is all red.
I have long wondered how unbiased M* research is and especially when I see load funds recommended.
I own a smatter…
I think this is about article quota. I'm sure women are as scarce in truck driving and shopfloor of GM plant too. But of course it will be harder to pen article regarding areas where women ARE making inroads. Besides, "dire" news somehow seems to se…
stupid question. why is it a bigger issue in mutual fund industry than in any other industry? more women are going into medicine and business, and less of them trying to be pretend investors. Maybe they have more sense and sometimes sense of moral d…
I don't like it when marketing goes haywire. Why not just call it Bond or Intermediate Bond fund? Because everyone hates fund with word "Bond" in it right now?
I only reinvest dividends in tax deferred accounts. Very rarely will I do so in taxable accounts unless I KNOW I will not be selling the fund. I find it a whole lot easier to track cost basis if I invest nice whole dollar amounts. Once a quarter I t…
@BobC. Not sure about egos but I'm convinced mutual fund managers should shut up and manage my money.
I keep going back to Bruce Berkowitz. The less he talks the better his fund performs. I'm so glad Fartiromo went to Fox News (at least I thought …
So guys, I can read definition of Duration and definition of Maturity and understand it. What I am trying to figure out is I want to take some money from MM fund and invest in a Short/Ultrashort mutual fund, which have same duration, but differing m…
