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Several investment advisors one colleague at work 5 yrs till retirement recommended 75 bonds 25 stocks. Major crash bound to happen. For me still 80 stock 20 bond
have not buying much, most of my buys were in oil/related companies bonds the past 6 months, got a large hit downturn but thinking long term maybe ok.
did bought some restaurant bonds recently - we'll see how it goes
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Don't know if bottom or not. Living in Texas you definitely see a plateau in housing prices and friends neighbors getting laid off jobs. Not many new jobs oil industry. Not like 1982 a over again but could be beginning. Bought bunch of oil bond…
did not do much 80/20 still in 401k...
would not be surprise if market tank 20-30% until next few quarters
still buying bonds here and there in private account...
bought t-mobil recently [bonds YTM~ 6.7%] bb- rating not bad cusip 87264AAM7
You can also sign up for bond research at Moodys.com and you can call the broker (ie zionsdirect) to ask about these bonds before buying them. But I think boa or most firms have their own bonds but zions usually charge 1% less fees than others.
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Hi bee. Think last yr portfolio for bond yield ~ 6%. Usually I would buy from zionsdirect [cheapest bonds for the price I found in internet.] but u sleep much better at night.
You can also set up alerts on these bonds in google.com/alert (need a…
About 4k for monthly expenses. If I need emergency cash which occur rarely would sell some bonds or get from margin account but pay it.back in full asap
probably right if you are not going to retire soon...
on other hands this is what other pundits are saying:
'dont do anything, just stand there'
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bogle-best-moves-now-ride-113629314.html
BOA visa - 1.5% on very thing, 3.5% on groceries and 4.5% on gas purchases - if you have platinum benefits [if you have > ?25 or 50K in your bank including check/saving/investments Merrill lynch]. think this is the best deal I found out there
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gold/ commodities ~ 5% of portfolio still.
individual bond[s] [munis or corporate] are good for long term safe investments if you pick the right ones and just hold it until maturity
for examples Tmobile was giving bond yield ~ 5% previously for 15 …
