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You might consider SUTXX (Schwab) or FSIXX (Fidelity, Merrill). No B/A spread, no fluctuating prices, no premiums/discounts, no 1099-Bs, no wash sales, and nearly identical performance to SGOV.
Through March 24, FSIXX has returned 0.97% and SGOV h…
Fidelity does not seem to have updated its documentation with respect to Fidelity Wealth Management.
https://www.fidelity.com/wealth-management/wealth-management-detail
Fidelity® Wealth Services (FWS) Wealth Management service-level clients must ge…
It looks like one can trade etf MMFs at T Rowe Price, even though you can't do this at Fidelity or Schwab.
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/63581/fidelity-schwab-block-orders-of-blackrock-and-texas-capital-etfs
I agree that Fideli…
Based on my experience, I would trust USPS over several American companies, including TRP, for customer service.
The sum total of your experience with USPS expressed in this thread is that the USPS failed to deliver a letter that you were expectin…
I was recently notified by USPS Informed Delivery that a letter from TRP will be delivered. ... I did not receive the said letter... Two days later my neighbor brought over the TRP letter.
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I would trust USPS over TRP for service reliability.
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ISTM that if the FDIC were to be wound down in an orderly manner (hah!), only new deposits would be at risk. So this possibility doesn't strike me as a reason to avoid CDs or other insured bank accounts.
OTOH, if the FDIC were to implode due to …
Vanguard Cash Plus Account benefits
One account. Two ways to divvy up your cash:
Keep all your money in the bank sweep program [and/or] Diversify into 5 Vanguard money market funds
https://investor.vanguard.com/accounts-plans/vanguard-cash-plus-acc…
Otherwise, it's just sparkling idiocy.
Or foamy idiocy. As in "The Champagne of [Bottle] Beers", something the EU may smash on sight (if on site)
https://www.foodandwine.com/miller-high-life-destroyed-belgium-customs-champagne-7483246
Perhaps ou…
That sort of makes sense. The Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 makes adjustments to claimed benefits. These adjustments are made to all eligible claims beginning Jan 1, 2024.
Independent of this is another SS rule: you can make claims retroac…
Here's Raymond James table of which GSEs are state taxable and which are state tax-exempt (eg. TVA exempt, GNMA not):
https://www.raymondjames.com/wealth-management/advice-products-and-services/investment-solutions/fixed-income/taxable-bonds/govern…
Tthe complaint hinged partly on CapOne advertising the old account as having one of the highest interest rates. Otherwise, it might have no more obligation to its customers to notify them of a better in-house account than it would have to notify th…
I believe the total to be 37.2 +8 = 45.2% state non taxable ? Agree or not ?
Disagree. I believe (but haven't checked lately) that it is percentage of income, not assets that matters. In any case, Schwab, like all fund sponsors, provides taxpayer…
Not that it matters, but this "bug" was not well reported.
The way many of the reports came out (COBOL, ancient people supposedly getting benefits) made it sound like a Y2K problem. A lot of business programs, often written in COBOL, represente…
which may indicate investor demand
Just speculating here since I haven't taken a close look at newly launched ETFs. ISTM that since there are no owners when an ETF launches, there could only be buyers in the secondary market. A premium might not…
"...in a country where people are facing systematically higher financial and job insecurity, the people are, on average, less likely to save...."
This is a rather odd conclusion involving multiple uses of the word "saving". It does not come from t…
There's the real NAV (what a fund is actually worth at 4:01PM) and the perception of a fund's worth. For perhaps many hours or even days, that perception is distorted. What we perceive now is a reflection of what the NAV used to be then (stale data…
Thanks @Crash.
stats do catch-up to reality
Exactly. Not just M* stats but official (fund sponsor) stats as well. As of 4PM every trading day the NAV of funds is determined, metaphysically speaking. That's reality, even though the funds are jus…
Beware that preferred "stocks" are really debt of very long or indefinite maturities
That's a good practical description, i.e. from the investor's perspective preferred stocks are debt. Though for most tax purposes they are treated as dividend-pay…
If VTCLX floats your boat, there are a couple of ETFs tracking the R1K. VONE (Vanguard) and IWB (iShares). VTCLX also tracks the R1K though more loosely for better tax efficiency.
The ETFs have slightly higher tax cost ratios than VTCLX (0.41% and…
The only competitor for VTMFX that I'm aware of is TAIFX. It is also 5*, also M* silver-rated (FWIW), but performance is slightly less.
Index funds are naturally somewhat tax efficient. So with a fund like VTMSX you might look at "regular" index …
I didn't realize that FullerThaler sub-managed any funds. This (UBVAX) is a SCV fund. The same managers as this fund also manage an open MCV fund under the FullerThaler name: FTVNX.
In the SCV space, FullerThaler does offer one fund, FTMSX, but …
OJ - Likewise I agree with your points.
My concern is that painting with broad brushstrokes, conflating the messengers with the messages, inculcates distrust in government research and analysis. And in doing so, enables "Donald Trump and his co…
that the government was telling the voters that all was OK
The government (read Bureau of Labor Statistics) produced accurate data, though with misleading headlines. It was politicians and some reporters (who knew better or were ignorant) who told…
Actually, I understood him to say that the tools and metrics do measure what they are supposed to measure, but it's the wrong stuff.
What he wrote was: Our research revealed that the data collected by the various agencies is largely accurate. Moreo…
intellectual dishonesty of the author
IMHO he overstated the adjustments necessary to come up with values that represent what people think they represent. That's a second level exaggeration. It still gets closer to the truth.
His points and t…
His point, as I take it, is that the numbers, though accurate are misunderstood. So things are worse than people get from the numbers reading them simplistically. True enough. But then he goes and does the same thing by simplistically presentin…
For most people, an egg a day does not increase your risk of a heart attack, a stroke, or any other type of cardiovascular disease.
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Of course, it matters greatly what you eat with your eggs. The saturated fat in butter, cheese, bacon, sausage, m…
Probably not what you were looking for, but FWIW, NYS has vaccination records online.
My pet peeve is faxing. I don't know if it is law, custom, or a combination, but some institutions (notably medical) only accept USPS or fax; not email. And th…
BTW, its 2/17/25, and I'm still waiting to receive my year-end distribuition notifications for the funds I hold in my Vanguard Roth account.
Just trying to understand here. You seem to be saying that you're expecting a notification for each fund. …
Vanguard (at least for a couple of years) self-clear through their subsidiaries.
2009 actually. I know - it seems like only yesterday :-)
FWIW, here are a couple of lists of brokerages and their clearing houses. Large brokerages generally self-…
Not personal experience, but I've helped someone who used to have sizeable managed accounts (both taxable and tax-sheltered) with them. At the time the structure was that you worked with a personal advisor for planning and advice while the actual i…
Many people find government pronouncements and actions relevant to investing. For example:Markets had to decide whether the president was being a protectionist or a pushover, and for now are erring toward pushover,” Paul Donovan, the chief economis…
I don't see the name Wells Trade anywhere on the site.
As services have become more commoditized, brokerages seem to be blending their low cost and full service brokerage identities. Perhaps in an effort to upsell.
Merrill Edge still exists as a …
Gosh, why would Dump want to remove consumer protections????
https://www.thedailybeast.com/more-than-800k-have-lost-2b-on-trumps-meme-coin/
"President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency, called $Trump, has cost investors billions. Trump announced the l…
Seniors often have nothing but there nest egg to crack over inflation (higher prices).
IMHO this is one of the strongest reasons to defer taking SS as long as possible. Rather than taking SS at full retirement age (FRA) or earlier and investing t…
The context was: former TDA account holders who have been transitioned should expect both their tax forms to be found under their new account number. IOW, the way tax forms are sometimes presented when there is a midyear change of clearing houses. …
1099 delays are most likely due to how long it takes the funds/companies you hold in an account take to report. So the fact that someone else got a form from your brokerage means little. They may not have anything their account that reports slowly…
There's not much I can add beyond what Yogi wrote. Though the term the Wisdom Tree uses on its page is "Distribution Yield", not current yield. The former typically means the average dividend payments over the last twelve months, i.e. TTM.
Check…
While traditional Republicans (if there are any left) might relish the shuttering of the CFPB on principle (less regulation of financial institutions), Musk has a more immediate objective.
Senator Ed Markey (via X, formerly known as Twitter) writes…
FWIW, there's not a theological (belief in a god) or even religious (broader beliefs and practices) requirement in the Constitution, including the presidential oath of office.
"So help me God" is not in the official oath and was likely not added by…
