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Thank you sma3! We are spending this summer in northwest again. I have no quiet place I can be before noon eastern (9 am here). Library opens at 9am! I've set up a session for Friday, 2 pm eastern ... posted on board. But, if that does not work, just call me at 805 468 9599 ... if I can pick up I will. Hopefully, can pick a day where you can attended from noon on. Very happy to do! c
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Thank you @sma3. (BTW. I've always liked that name!) Yes, similar to @wxman123, I did not know there were fixed term ETFs. Very cool.
Individual bonds, on other hand, I'm somewhat familiar with. I do suspect that if investors could hold IG bond cer…
A part of me struggling to understand the handwringing for buy-and-hold investors.
If you have a say 50/50 allocation between stocks and bonds, why would you not just rebalance? Take-advantage of the cheapness?
I get it with trend-following or tra…
Does anyone here buy individual corporate bonds or TBills?
I know you can do latter through TreasuryDirect, as well as broker.
Examples:
Dish, B- (hmmm), 1 year, 5%
Ford, BB+, 1 year, callable (lol), 3.7%
Alibaba, A+, 1 year, 3%
US TBill, 1 year,…
Perhaps take some solace here ...
There are 811 bond funds, excluding Specialty Income, that have never returned less than zero in any 3-year rolling period since launch. Several of these go back to circa 1980.
Among them: DODIX, PRCIX, FGOVX, VFI…
Yes, agree @davidrmoran. This is more for those of us influenced by The Junkster School of Investing.
I do know some people that get upset when CDs show a daily loss in their Schwab accounts, not realizing it's mark-to-market pricing.
I also feel …
@BenWP. After two years of Covid, starting with horrific images from NYC and Italy, now we have the horrors in Ukraine. Yes indeed, a good dose of humor goes a long way these days.
@Old_Joe. Good one!
Yep, it's true.
But she impresses me.
I think what I like most is she's poking fun at the whole thing.
Like here:
https://twitter.com/kylascan/status/1502040117103366144?s=20&t=TWdvc5MzVvazRrz8kS_GNA
Her intro this week ...
"A brief summary around all the movements in commodities this week
Agriculture, fertilizer, natural gas, oil as a meme stonk, shale investors, The Nickel Saga, the China tech selloff, commodities vs USD, and finally crypto …
Here are all bond mutual funds, excluding Specialty Income, that are above water (month ending February), sorted by return, highest on top:
Fairholme Focused Income (FOCIX)
Eaton Vance Short Duration Inflation-Protected Income I (EIRRX)
Northeast I…
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