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@BenI sent a message to Rondure pointing out the error and hesitantly cc-d Laura Geritz. She personally responded, quickly and warmly. I am still smiling.
Good on ya! I've received the same attention.
Best!
Old_Joe: Has TRP recently gone the NTF route with a number of brokers, or am I missing something here?
TD has also been offering TRP funds NTF. My guess is for about two months, but I'm unable to confirm how long because TD doesn't have that informa…
JoJo26 How did you finagle a different pricing agreement with TD?
Hi!
No finagle.
TD made it available when I brought over my assets to them in March primarily from Scottrade but also from Fido and Schwab.
So yes, I am able to purchase TF funds …
@MikeM2
Both funds and classes are available at TD with a 2K minimum. The N shares have no TF, but the I shares come with a TF of $49.99 unless one has a pricing agreement with TD for a lower TF -- in my case $17.99. I will be holding the I class o…
LLJB: Excellent inquiry
For what interest it holds, I reached out to DoubleLine more than two weeks ago and offered to write in April a combined profile on both DSEEX and DSEUX devoting more to the former than the latter (it's newer) because of the…
Scottrade holds most of my fund assets, and I have been pleased with the support I've received from them in the last 14 years. (I have some stocks at Fido, one fund at Schwab plus cash, and cash at TD after opening an account there last week.)
In l…
@Edmond I opened a toe-hold in PARWX several weeks ago -- just to foreclose the possibility it might do a close in the future. I only noticed it after reading some article about it on M*.
FWIW: Six weeks ago, I asked Parnassus about its capacity r…
@ducrow I own BTBFX - good Perfomance,Rereasonable Expense Ratio,Small AUM
Good work!
@Puddenhead Yes I own BTBFX also, I use it as a counter balance to VWINX
Excellent choice(s).
@VF Despite the SRI/ESG focus of WSBFX, the portfolios as of the …
@David_SnowballIt's a relatively concentrated fund with just 38 stocks; that's high commitment for a small cap product. A number of their holdings had a decent day (1-2%) but their second largest holding (Blackbaud) rose 13.5% and their fifth larges…
@davidmoran Do you have thoughts why the DLEUX performance thus far (6w) has been worse than European indexes?
The underperformance mentioned was because the fund's four sectors lagged the MSCI Europe Net Return USD Index over such a short time peri…
I spoke with Eric Huefner, GP COO, with whom I've had previous conversations in the past, about the subject of this thread. Here's a summary of what he said.
The table in the SAI only shows ownership in the funds managed by the PMs. If it included …
@davidmoran
For what interest it holds...
I spoke with a gentleman from the DL Advisory Group on Jan. 13th about brokerage availability. He said that the plans are to have DLEUX/DSEUX available on every platform possible, that it should be availab…
@David I get a sense that Mr. Deshpande will have a substantial investment in the fund and in the firm; often founders underwrite these start-ups to the tunes of hundreds of thousands to millions. I also had a sense that some of his net worth might …
@kevindow Scottrade offers both CENTX (world allocation) and CINTX (foreign LB) for $100 minimums in taxable and retirement accounts + TF.
Very helpful to know! Thanks for pointing it out. I certainly missed it. Best
@kevindow Your point was that the fund will not close anytime soon because the manager's intention is "looking for assets like First Eagle," which the manager has stated is false.
The manager has between 50-100K in the domestic fund; he has none i…
Centerstone Investor Class A (CETAX) and Centerstone International Class A (CSIAX) are available no-load and NTF at Schwab for $100 and $1 additional in basic and IRA accounts. David ran a launch alert in June 2016. The fund http://centerstoneinv.co…
@LLJB I'm a little surprised Intrepid has only been able to raise $17MM in assets with a good record over more than 2 years. It almost seems like the risk of liquidation for ICMIX could be pretty high if it doesn't garner a good amount more intere…
Scott Blankenship, who is responsible for the firm’s sales and distribution of products offered through financial intermediaries, says that the fund will be available at all major brokerages but that "will take weeks and maybe months." Schwab might…
@LLJB
There was only one call. Here are some other points.
Laura's love and interest is all cap, going back even to her pre-Wasatch days. She was constrained on Wasatch International Opportunities, for example, to small cap, but she was all cap in…
Hi Crash. I noted your earlier concern about Moerus before this repost and wished to get back to you.
If you've read what the PM has said about the fund, then you know that it remains a deep value product and aims to apply the 20-year process that …
I participated in the conference call this morning with GP and found it comprehensive and informative. It included the introduction of Laura Geritz, the reasons for her partnership with GP, and most of all her presenting details about her investment…
Those are, I think, perfectly reasonable concerns. It's possible that her small-cap experience at Wasatch convinced her that all-cap made sense. It's possible that another flavor of small-cap raised the Royce Funds problem. It's possible something e…
@expatsp What would you choose to replace this fund in your portfolio if you need another in the international multi-cap value space and have some degree of confidence that it would perform as well or better?
I get it that nothing lasts forever. H…
I had serious interest in the offering from before and after inception; however, my enthusiasm has since cooled : I don't see much, if any, inflation pass-through benefit from infrastructure bonds as opposed to owning infrastructure stocks directly …
Hi Mark.
According to my contact at Schwab, the offer applies to both regular and IRA accounts. Schwab, however, does not have a link to the offer, but you can call 1-800-750-9192 to learn more about it specifically. Attached to the announcement is …
VF:Also, how the heck do I prove I was with Scottrade for any given length of time? Call or look online at your account history. In my case 12+ years. (I'm also at Schwab and others, but not TD.)
More importantly, the welcome mat is out at Schwab f…
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We encourage our clients to ask questions that matter. And in light of the recent Scottrade acquisition announcem…
Citi's William Katz had a piece in Barron's Friday saying how the deal would make sense.
Now the Bloomberg story.
I spoke with my local Scottrade broker on Thursday about this issue and then in an email Friday. The response was that these "repor…
@Mike
RIMIX is a concentrated mid cap Asian EM fund whose objective is capital appreciation. It has a market cap of 3.2B invested in only six countries. Accordingly, its benchmark is the MSCI EM Asian Index.
On the other hand, MAPIX is a large ca…
LLJB Hasn't TD Ameritrade been in the dark about a few things recently. Weren't they the ones who were offering the Driehaus Frontier Emerging Markets fund with a low minimum or was it something else?
About DRFRX, yes.
