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AFAIK, Vanguard funds are ntf only at Vanguard, E-Trade, and Firstrade. If Schwab somehow offered them ntf, I'd transfer my Vanguard account there in a heartbeat !
Question for fundly: are the majority of Vanguard funds ntf, such as VWELX VWINX VWEHX . I'm only asking because I'd like to move my Vanguard account to a more user-friendly less-clunky brokerage platform.
Agree with BenWP. I use my Schwab checking account to pay my Duke energy bill and credit card bills by ACH transfer. Getting a Schwab Amex card was pretty easy as well.
Most everyone is wearing a mask here in Seminole County, Florida. However, Citrus County, from what I'm reading ,has a significant population who refuses to wear a mask !
Due to the West Virginia electorate, Manchin is both the best and only Democrat that could be elected as Senator from WV. The days of Byrd and Rockefeller are long gone !
Here's what Russ Roberts misses. First you didn't need a college education to work at a well-paying job in 1973: for example UAW members at GM, Ford and Chrysler, or the multitude of union jobs at the auto suppliers. Second, college tuition has rise…
rickrmf If I'm not mistaken, the new mandate took effect in June or July 2020. During the March swoon, the fund followed the old mandate, so its stock allocation was only 10-20 %, when the decline started.
Foreign Large Value options: FIENX TRWAX . Or you could go with a flv etf like FNDF . Going with a flb fund or etf would probably increase your investment choices.
IMHO, if one of these alt funds did produce decent returns with limited volatility, one of 2 things would happen: the minimum investment would suddenly increase to 5 or 10 million to prevent too much cash coming in, or the fund manager would leave t…
IIRC, after "Big Mo" Brooks gets a GOP Senator to support him(insert name of a$$hole here, I'm going with Ron Johnson(WI)), both chambers would have to vote "yes" to support this, and fortunately Dems(by a slim margin) control the House and would sl…
IMHO, this is a bigger win for Morocco.They've been seeking recognition of their Western Sahara claims for years, although it's unlikely the EU will join the US in recognition. The Moroccan-Polisario conflict has been ongoing since 1976. An independ…
+1 david Paul Waldman opinion is one of the best summaries I've seen. We've always had a portion of the electorate that was conservative, resistant to change,anti-science and anti-intellectual,authoritarian and willing to put the preservation of whi…