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MikeM
I know you are not a fan of his, Mona (understatement :) )
Another Bills fan!!! Junkster just sent me a note saying the same. GO BILLS! They will be right down the road from me when training camp starts next week at St. John Fisher College. But tickets sold out in hours, so I won't be going. Are you from the area, Western NY?
If she is looking to invest in just one fund to start out with, I would go with one of their retirement target date funds. Their all-in-one retirement funds are some of the best out there.
One of my favorite funds I use from TRP is the New Era PRN…
I own the Total Return fund and pretty much see it as a short duration bond fund. I think the bond holdings are now down to an average 1.5 year duration now. Like you said, Hussman is very conservative and does not use the latitude the prospectus sa…
HSGFX is -1% for the last 5 years, -3% for 3 years. It's down 10.2% from it's most recent high. This is while the market has made tons of money since 2009. It's hard for me to believe anyone is still reading Hussman's weekly updates. I admire people…
Totally agree with you hank (and catch). I thought Old Joe and investor gave thoughtful and pointed opinions. I didn't see anything wrong with that thread except that one poster reverted back to the limitations of the FA board rules.
I think off-to…
The one L/S or Absolute Return fund I was interested in is the fund BobC has brought up as a alternative diversifier a few times, Marketfield MFLDX. Most of these long/short funds seem to stay on the bearish side most all the time and only seem wort…
Shostakovich you made this comment to BobC:
...my wife is very risk adverse; she doesn't care if she hits a homerun with this investment (and does not want to take on the risk that might be associated with putting that kind of numbers on the board);…
Hi Bee. I did the same. I had a 7% stake in USAGX (USAA PM and Minerals) and UNWPX (US Global World PM's.) I've cut back the last few weeks to a little over 2% now and I'll hold that. After about a 120% rise the last couple years, I thought I shoul…
Thanks Joe for bringing this topic up.
I'm also wondering now what made FundAlarm such a nice comfortable place to go most every day. It wasn't being able to embed software. No one seemed to care that FA had a "very cluttered UI... (huh, what's a …
First of all, thanks David for all your efforts here. I am more than software illiterate. Actual software dumb is a better word for me. So, I did not anticipate the very significant changes to this discussion board. I may very well be in the minor…
Interesting question. My answer would be no, the number of people owning a fund or a specific person recommending it would not on it's own lead me to buy. But, it does lead me to investigate the fund to see how it fits compared to what I already own…
I bought into the allocation fund, FAAFX, about a month ago in my 401k. My hope is that because the fund has low assets (now anyway), a go anywhere mandate and Bruce Berkowitz at the helm, this fund will be as good or better than FAIRX, especially i…
One more little thing I noticed, when you back arrow out of whatever post you are in to get back to the main list, you always end up at the top of the discussion list again. You then have to scroll down and look for where you left off. Be nice to…
I guess I'm not much for change. Heck, I don't even carry a cell phone which drives my kids crazy. But I really liked the simplicity of FundAlarm. I liked seeing the original post and the response names (and sometimes new subject line) under the ori…
