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What if instead of rotating the markets were really only levitating? Alan Greenspan infamously remarked that you can’t identify a bubble until after it implodes. So, if Ol’ Al couldn’t tell ahead of time, who are we to know?“The stock market is rotating ... “
We are talking about an 18.9% decline Q/Q, a dividend far inferior to the fourth quarter of 2020 which had the amount of $0.8096. Not to mention a 0.65% quarterly yield vs. a 0.72% quarterly yield in 1Q20.Vanguard’s first quarter dividend for 2021 is in the amount of $0.65640, up 18.4%. ...
Vanguard's first quarter dividend for 2021 is in the amount of $0.65640. This is far superior to the first quarter for 2020, which had the amount of $0.55440. ...
Do you see what % of an increase that equates to? We are talking about 18.4% baby!
https://www.morningstar.com/articles/931013/about-morningstars-fund-classificationsBy the early 1990s, advancements in technology permitted a new approach. Armed with funds' portfolio holdings and the computational power to evaluate them, Morningstar jettisoned fund companies' definitions, opting instead to impose its own [portfolio based] structure.
Refinitiv Lipper U.S. Fund Classifications, Aug 15, 2020Refinitiv Lipper originally grouped all funds by their prospectus-based objective. The introduction of Refinitiv Lipper's holdings-based classification model and the demand for more granular peer groups paved the way for the creation of a classification scheme. ...
OPEN-END [Domestic] EQUITY FUNDS
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Capital Appreciation Funds
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Growth Funds
Micro-Cap Funds
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Options Arbitrage/Option Strategies
S&P 500 Index Objective Funds
Small-Cap Funds
Portfolio-based [classification]
Equity Income Funds
Large-Cap Core Funds
Large-Cap Growth Funds
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Mid-Cap Core Funds
Mid-Cap Growth Funds
Mid-Cap Value Funds
Multi-Cap Core Funds
Multi-Cap Growth Funds
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S&P 500 Index Funds
S&P Midcap 400 Index Funds
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The Democratic congressman Andy Levin, of Michigan, a union stalwart, has described it as “the most important election for the working class in this country in the twenty-first century.” On Monday, the Reverend Dr. William Barber, as prominent a figure as exists in the modern civil-rights movement, travelled to Alabama and said, “Bessemer is now our Selma.”
That this election is about the future has something to do with the workers themselves, who embody the political transformation of the South to which progressives pin their dreams. According to union officials, a majority of the people employed at the facility, which is outside of Birmingham, are Black, and a majority are women....
....The Amazon union drive has drawn a rare intensity out of the usual suspects. Abrams, Levin, and Bernie Sanders have announced their support for it, and so has President Joe Biden, who recorded a strong message encouraging the organizers and discouraging any effort to interfere with them. It has also drawn some unusual allies, above all the conservative Republican senator Marco Rubio, of Florida, who published an op-ed in USA Today declaring his support for the organizing workers and his opposition to Amazon’s ways: “The days of conservatives being taken for granted by the business community are over.”
Amazon’s influence is so vast—touching on issues from wealth and income inequality to antitrust policy, the American relationship with China, the omnipotence of workplace surveillance, and the atomizing effect of big business, in its most concentrated and powerful form, on families and communities—that it can scramble ordinary politics. For a moment, at least, it can put Marco Rubio and Stacey Abrams on the same side. Most organizing campaigns have a symbolic quality, in which the employer and its workers stand for different models of economic organization. The fight in Bessemer is different because it is so direct. Amazon isn’t a proxy for the future of the economy but its heart.
A year into a pandemic that has kept many Americans cooped up at home, ordering supplies and streaming their entertainment, seems an unpromising time to take on Amazon, which supplies many of those services. Amazon’s revenue grew by nearly forty per cent in 2020, and its workforce grew by about fifty per cent; Jeff Bezos’s wealth reportedly increased by nearly seventy billion dollars last year. The company has become so ubiquitous that even to inquire about it entangles you in its machinery: type “is Amazon popular?” into a search engine and you might find, as I did, that most of the top results are books about popularity which are sold on Amazon. You can find evidence that Amazon both is and isn’t popular in survey data. In one poll, ninety-one per cent of respondents said that they had a favorable view of Amazon; in another, fifty-nine per cent thought the company was bad for small business. To count on broad opposition to Amazon right now is to assume such cognitive dissonance: that Americans may increasingly rely on Amazon and view it favorably while also believing that the company needs to change....
...What is rare about the Bessemer campaign is how neatly it encapsulates the modern economic system—it is, in many ways, a pinnacle of a pinnacle. Amazon represents an extreme expression of the twenty-first century’s extreme inequality and concentration of wealth and economic power, which has already changed the Democratic Party and some elements of the G.O.P. The Bessemer facility represents Amazon’s system fully realized, and so it carries one potential future for work. The union proposition is that, in Amazon, in Bezos, in Bessemer, after a year of the pandemic, the whole system can be seen clearly. Now the choice belongs to those six thousand workers. Appelbaum suspects that the early vote was unfavorable to the organizing effort, but that the late vote—once the union presented this vision—was more friendly, and that Monday’s outcome will hinge on when the most votes were cast. “We’re going up against the wealthiest human being since the beginning of time, and this incredibly powerful corporation,” Appelbaum said. “And they still can be beat.”
I agree... Draw down - peak to valley (Feb-Mar 2020) was almost 27%.I have not sold off a large FRIFX holding yet, but it provides no real diversity, its steadiness insufficient last March.
the-worst-type-of-sell-offIt would be better if the market ripped the band-aid off these growth names instead of dragging it out with false rallies. Just crash them already and get it over with. But unfortunately, the market is not here to provide us with comfort. Risk hurts.
Maybe this is a buying opportunity. Or maybe there is still time to sell. How you think about these things depends on your past experiences, your style of investing, your timeframe, and a whole host of other items.
I think the risk I’m taking today will be rewarded in the future, but I’m ready for more pain tomorrow.
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