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As noted in the article, the threshold moved above $25 toward the end of 1997. So perhaps that was when it became more of a mid cap fund. Excerpts from the July 31, 1997 annual report:Q. HOW DID THE FUND PERFORM, JOEL?
A. The fund did well. For th…
I've had a hard time finding a similar fund. The closest I could come was PGVFX. The two funds tracked well 2015-2020, but diverged substantially in March.
Tillinghast had one of the shortest hiatuses on record (4 months).
https://www.reuters.c…
Janus Henderson Mid Cap Value JNVSX
Did you mean Janus (JNMCX) or Jensen (JNVSX), or both?
Toward the end of their fund management tenure with JNMCX, the Perkins seemed to have lost their mojo. In the past few (about 5) years the change in man…
Because returns compound, what you're computing is a multiplicative, or "geometric" average, rather than an additive, or "arithmetic" average. But the concepts are the same, so I'll try to address your question using the more familiar arithmetic a…
Here's a streamlined online calculator that just does powers. You enter the number, e.g. 7.158868, and then the power 0.05 (1/20th). That will get you the 20th root of the number.
https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/algebra/exponent.php
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Cuomo and DeBlasio did a terrible job. Pro Publica lays it out
Apparently Trump adopted some of their talking points months later:
Dr. Mitchell Katz, the head of the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation: “The good thing is greater than 99 perce…
You can coax 20 year data (or any other performance data you want) out of M* by using its charts and selecting the desired start and end dates. This works with both the legacy charts and the new ones. The granularity is one day.
To find a legac…
In Baltimore since forever, homeowners have paid land-rent upon which their homes sit. Ya, pretty effing crazy. Just like the Excise Tax on the car. So, you have the right to buy a car if you can afford it. And you most likely will park the car in a…
Forbes should know better than to say the streets are "collateral". It's picking up this word from an article in BondBuyer.com, but it's not in the bond descriptions.
Lease-purchase bonds (a type of lease revenue bonds) operate the way one would …
Here is what is stated to be an excerpt from John Bolton's book (I don't have the book). That book is apparently silent regarding Jeffrey Goldberg's reporting about what Trump said.
The book is silent because Bolton wrote about what he heard, not …
Lots of vaccines are already "out". Russia is administering a vaccine, and it should be widely available in time for an October surprise. "Russia, if you're listening" :-) And doctors in the US are privately administering various vaccines.
T…
Is anyone bothered by the fact that the article is based largely (entirely?) on unnamed sources? I know what Trump said about McCain (shameful), but I think it was pretty clear those guys hated each other, and haters say things simply to cause pain.…
Cuomo and nursing homes? You had patients who needed continuous attention (i.e. nursing care), but no longer required hospitalization. Their hospital beds were needed. What do you do? At the time, returning those patients to nursing homes …
As I said, you dissected my words but not my point.
We should disregard the embedded falsities, just look at your points? If the words are to be disregarded, why not state the point directly, cleanly? Inclusion of false statements creates the pe…
There are at least four possible pathogenic mechanisms that may account for the detrimental effect of COVID-19 on the [Central Nervous System]. ...Any one or a combination of these mechanisms put COVID-19 survivors at risk for developing long-term n…
Doug Ducey- Governor of Arizona Republican
Brian Kemp - Governor of Georgia Republican
Ron DeSantis - Governor of Florida Republican
Greg Abbott - Governor of Texas Republican
J.B Pritzker - Governor of Illinois Democrat
Gavin Newsom - Governor or C…
The distinction between xenophobia and racism is irrelevant.
So you introduced racism as a distraction? What happened to KISS?
Biden would not have done it, and rightly so. That should be feather in Biden's cap. Isn't that YOUR point?
No, my po…
Again, so you believe that the fact that Trump did not outlaw Americans (including American's of Chinese descent) from going to and fro to China during the covid outbreak made the ban xenophobic and racist? Were there even commercial flights af…
You talk about optics. Your perceptions. While what she was doing was hometown boosterism.
What you perceive as a slight ("bashing") to the travel ban is a facially affirmative appeal to visit her district's Chinatown (boosterism). "We shou…
The USAToday explanation is what would happen if federal elections were delayed. They're not being delayed. That would likely take an act of Congress.
The present concern is not whether the Electoral College vote would be tied (in which case Tr…
I must have missed the part where one could hear 'Pelosi ... bashing Trump's air travel ban as "xenophobic."'
I'll make it easy for you. Here's Pelosi's press release with the remarks she made. I think you'll find it accurate, and more complet…
Had to address this separately. Are you saying that a country allowing it's own residents and citizens to return home despite a travel ban from a certain region is proof of racism or xenophobia? I'm not going to spend the time you probably have (b…
Dissecting words? I quoted a single assertion you made. Was it true or false?
As you wrote, way too much "splaining". Stick to the Pelosi statement and skip the distractions. I made a simple suggestion: if it is a fact that she said what you…
Pelosi, were downplaying the virus and bashing Trump's air travel ban [on travel from China out of concern for the spread of the novel coronavirus] as "xenophobic."
While it's difficult to prove a negative, it should be easy to substantiate a posi…
I'm with Barr (sort of) on this one. You need to know what the law is in every state before you can say that it's a felony everywhere.
It's not, though it is a crime everywhere. For example, in Maryland: "Except as provided in § 16-1002 of this…
Yield’s getting harder this year. Unless you can stand volatility via leverage perhaps in a CEF or something like XOM or XLE.PIMIX is significantly leveraged as well. Over half the ER, 0.59% out of 1.09%, goes toward paying interest (per summary …
If that last name rings a bell with readers, that’s because Nick is the son of the late Chronicle columnist Art Hoppe.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Nick runs his own restaurant and retail business and lives with his wife in Mill Valley.
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The page you gave with PK's stroll contains a link to rundowns of looting reports by community board districts: "Manhattan certainly saw the most violence."
However, PK lives on Riverside Drive on the UWS (a matter of public record) while loot…
He's just echoing the same flawed reasoning used by the administration in promulgating the rule blocking ESGs. Zenbrew highlighted this flaw in the previous thread. Quoting from his post:
As pointed out in Rekenthaler's piece:
The second impl…
Now you're presenting general shooting patterns, something unrelated to vandalism. The Gothamist article you linked to says this is a nationwide trend: "Murders have been rising across various major U.S. cities this summer."
Yes, a spike in murders…
In my highlighting of underlying assumptions, I was not saying the assumptions were right or wrong. Merely that without those assumptions, one could not draw any conclusion about the actual racial breakdown of criminals in Springfield. Basic rule…
Good find, though no need to go scavenging for the information. It's in the prospectus.
On p. 47 (pdf p. 49) is a section entitled THE PORTFOLIO MANAGERSEach Fund is managed with a collaborative team approach that utilizes the skills and…
See also the earlier thread on this topic, especially the last comment by @zenbrew
https://mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/56500/new-labor-department-guidance-takes-aim-at-esg-investing
So for clarification, you are not certain of the race of the people who committed the three crimes where you were a victim. Rather, "the probability that the perpetrators were people of color was extremely high." What I'm trying to understand is…
@Crash - thanks for the clarification. I've been looking at too many crime statistics. The police figures give "reported crimes", as differentiated, I suppose, from solved crimes. In that context, reported crimes is reasonably representative o…
Springfield definitely has crime problems. Springfield is 37% white/63% people of color. Taking this into account, if 99% of crimes there are committed by people of color, that would mean that people of color commit crimes at a rate 58x as high …
Wellstrade has one of the highest closeout fee around, $95. So it's a good thing that Firstrade covers those fees up to $200. I got so fed up with Wellstrade that, free trades and all, I left them years ago.
Remember Scottrade? Or before th…
You appear to have dropped the idea that violent crime is worse now in NYC than it was under Rudy. That's good, because violent crime dropped so much nationwide in the past two decades that even the worst mayors now are likely to have better numbe…
I believe Vanguard was merely "persuading" you (with threats?) to convert your account from the mutual fund platform to the brokerage platform. Vanguard has been sending me email every couple of weeks for months now asking me to convert. Here's s…
