Portfolio Review: Diversification Effects on Israelsen 7Twelve
Craig L. Israelsen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he teaches Personal and Family Finance to over 1,200 students each year. The Israelsen Seven Equally Weighted is aimed to protect the portfolio against losses. The...
Constructing Asset Allocation Portfolios From Schwab Commission Free ETFs
Schwab initially only made its own ETFs commission free for clients in Schwab accounts. It has since dramatically expanded its offerings to 105 ETFs. These funds enable participants to gain exposure to 6 major assets: US Equity, Commodity, Foreign Equity,...
Sound Asset Allocation Portfolios From Schwab Income Mutual Fund Select List
Schwab’s Income Select List was developed and is managed by the Charles Schwab Investment Advisory, Inc. (CSIA) experts and includes mutual funds that have met their rigorous criteria, including both quantitative and qualitative factors. All are no-load and...
Fidelity Commission Free ETFs
Fidelity has a suite of commission free ETFs. We use these ETFs to construct an investment plan Fidelity Commission Free ETFs. The plan consists of 65 funds. These funds enable participants to gain exposure to 5 major assets: US Equity, Foreign Equity,...
10 Best Inflation-Protected Bond Mutual Funds
Inflation protected bonds (TIPS) have been weak recently, along with general bond markets. The following shows how these bonds have performed: Ticker/Portfolio NameYTDReturn**1Yr AR3Yr AR5Yr AR10Yr AR TIP (iShares Barclays TIPS Bond) -7.4% -8.3% 2.7% 6.1% ...
Wasik Nano Lazy Portfolio, Its Strategic & Tactical Versions
John Wasik has been a professional journalist and author for 30 years specializing in personal finance, the environment, investing and social issues. John has proposed a Nano plan investment portfolio which employs just a handful of index or ETFs to cover virtually...
8 Best High Yield Muni Mutual Funds For Asset Allocation Portfolios
Municipal bonds recently took a beating, along with general bonds. However, as cities and local state governments have improved their financial recently, these bond mutual funds exhibit some good value again. Investors can look at high yield municipal bond funds...
Tactical and Strategic Portfolios vs. FundAdvice Ultimate Buy and Hold
FundAdvice Ultimate Buy and Hold Portfolio is a long running portfolio that is tracked on MarketWatch.com’slazy portfolios, maintained by Paul Farrel. The portfolio was proposed by Paul Merriman, who has been an advocate on asset allocation and some...
Asset Allocation Model Portfolios Using Vanguard ETFs
Vanguard now has one of the largest ETF lineups. Continuing their low cost index fund tradition, Vanguard has made these ETFs have extremely low (if not lowest) cost. If you have a brokerage account at Vanguard, you can also trade these ETFs commission free. For more...
Fixed Income Bonds Are Still In Downtrend
The latest fixed income segment trend scores: Fixed Income Assets Trend 10/31/2013 DescriptionSymbol1 Week4 Weeks13 Weeks26 Weeks52 WeeksTrend Score High Yield JNK 0.0% 2.06% 3.11% -0.06% 6.78% 2.38% Short Term Credit CSJ 0.08% 0.23% 0.61% 0.4% 0.98% 0.46%...
4 Best World Bond Mutual Funds
Templeton global bond fund, PIMCO Foreign bond fund and the other two world bond funds have best 10 year world bond investment records. Templeton world and international bond funds, however, stand out by delivering the best 10 year return with a big margin: ...
10 Best High Yield Bond Mutual Funds
Investing in high yield bonds, if managed properly, can be rewarding. The following is the the list of top 10 high yield bond funds: Portfolio Performance Comparison Ticker/Portfolio Name1 WeekReturn*YTD Return**1Yr AR1Yr Sharpe3Yr AR3Yr Sharpe5Yr AR5Yr...
Using ETrade All-Star ETFs to Construct Sound Asset Allocation Investment Portfolios
Like other brokerages, ETrade also provides a list of commission free ETFs. However, these ETFs are mostly low volume sector or specific ETFs that, unlike broad based ETFs, can not be used to construct a sound asset allocation portfolio. However, ETrade does provide...
Schwab Commission Free ETFs
Schwab has introduced ultra low cost ETFs to compete against Vanguard. These ETFs can be also traded commission free in a Schwab brokerage account. However, unlike Vanguard, Schwab includes other brand ETFs in its commission free ETF line ups....
Portfolio Review: Israelsen 7Twelve
Craig L. Israelsen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he teaches Personal and Family Finance to over 1,200 students each year. The Israelsen Seven Equally Weighted is aimed to protect the portfolio against losses. The...
Permanent Portfolios and Funds Review
In his Fail-Safe Investing book, Harry Browne proposed this one size fit all portfolio that he called ‘permanent portfolio’. His theory has been discussed in numerous articles like this. A mutual fund PRPFX was constucted and named...
401K Investments Review: Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) Retirement Savings Plan
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is one of the largest semiconductor companies. It products include microprocessor and graphics ICs. Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) Retirement Savings Plan is a simple plan that consists of most Vanguard funds and a...
The Coffee House Lazy Portfolio ETF
The Coffee House Lazy Portfolio ETF Version is a plan that uses ETFs instead of index funds for the plan The Coffee House Lazy Portfolio. Since many ETFs have short history, only recent history is meaningful here. Here is the description of the plan: Bill...
Vanguard ETFs for Portfolio Construction
As many brokerages such as Fidelity and Schwab plans, Vanguard provides a list of commission free ETFs. They are essentially all of Vanguard ETFs. Clients can trade these ETFs in a Vanguard brokerage account for free. For more details, please...
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- Re: Bond ETFs for Euro investor October 2, 2022Stork wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:17 pm The market has now changed so much we consider putting some of our cash into bond ETFs, and as we are in Euroland we think it should be Euro or Euro hedged. Both Eurozone and G7 bond ETFs have a significant part of Italian bonds, we are […]glorat
- Re: 3.69% term deposits on the USD : Should I jump in? October 2, 2022I'm saying a whole bunch of advanced stuff in my previous posts for education. If that's too much, I'll break it down into actionable advice Option 1) You don't mind losing principal Invest in a global bond ETF. You'll save at least 0.5% in fees by choosing this over HSBC time deposits Option 2) You […]glorat
- Re: Conversation with co workers/ financial literacy among non-boglehead types October 2, 2022I am not surprised at what OP found. My brother and I inherited. A nice amount from my mom in an inherited IRA. He did not realize that taking all from the would that the tax bill for most of the money would be over 30%. Both wife and brother have no idea of expenses […]Dottie57
- Re: Why isn't diversification working... October 2, 2022Logan Roy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:36 pm bethanybeachreader wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:38 pm This is a very rookie question. I always thought that diversification was a good thing. When the stock market went up, bonds didn't do so well. And vice versa, when stocks did bad, bonds would help to limit […]helloyou
- Re: MarketWatch: Many young people shouldn’t save for retirement October 2, 2022A lot of young adults I know would like to believe that it's not important to save until you're older. They want to spend every penny they earn on buying a big house, having a big family, with all the perks. Problem is that the spending habits you establish early in your relationship/marriage tend to […]baconavocado