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This Vanguard website blog post seems appropriate for this thread:

http://vanguardblog.com/2013/05/16/staying-the-course/

Has your co-worker fired his financial advisor yet?

I turn 70 July 10, 2013; therefore, I shall turn 70½ January 10, 2014. I should take my RMD December 31, 2014, is that right? (I'll probably take it about December 1st, just to be on the safe side.)

My Fit is down to twenty percent. I plan to wait until it's down to five percent.

In fairness, must mutual fund companies that have loads don't call them "loads." Usually they are called "sales charges" which sounds very much like a "purchase fees." And, to the extent both a sales charge and a purchase fee constitute a portion of assets which are no...

I have two credit cards, but I only use one (MasterCard) on a regular basis. I haven't noticed my credit score being hurt.

Try Truckee for funky.

Does Fidelity have the best customer service that I know of? That wasn't my experience when I had my 401(k) with Fidelity at my last job, and it certainly wasn't my experience when I rolled over my Fidelity 401(k) to Vanguard.

It's always a mystery to me why such threads are allowed to stand, since many others are routinely locked by moderators on the grounds that they are irrelevant to personal finance issues and do not have "actionable" content. Both of those descriptions apply here, too (nothing about person...

core5 wrote:Can I assume they're still building this fund, looking at the load and the higher expense ratios?

There is no load.

Washington policymakers voted to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for most Americans earlier this year. In this interview, Sarah Hammer, a senior investment analyst in Vanguard Investment Strategy Group, explains the changes that took place, including increased rates for higher income taxpayers, revisi...

My TSP account consists solely of the G Fund, so any portfolio rebalancing I do is in my Vanguard Roth.

I received this email this morning (or last night). From: Facebook Security Subject: Warning!! Your Facebook account will be suspended soon! Hello, The Facebook team has detected that there was a threat to your Facebook account and there is not a single user that logs into your account, and for this...

You couldn't pay me to live in most of the tax friendly states for retirees.

I'm about ten pages into Carole King's A Natural Woman: a Memoir. Every time I've tried to check this book out from the library down the street, someone had beat me to it, but today was my lucky day. Several months ago, a poster had said the book was a disappointment, but I'm liking it so far.

0.75%, because that's what I paid almost four years ago when the Vanguard FTSE All-World Ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund first came out. Now the fund's expense ratio is down to 0.45%

My answer would be, "It depends." I think you, the original poster, are the best one to answer your own question.

Is that a change in Vanguard policy? I've always been under the impression that Vanguard did not accept third party checks.

This is my first post here, although I have read and benefitted from this site for a long time. I recently sent the following message to my Vanguard representative. I haven't heard back yet, but wonder if anyone else has noticed this phenomenon and might be able to provide some insight. Thanks in a...

OverTheHill wrote:I think it's possible that the argument in favor of international is similar to the argument against high yield. It's an ideology.

]I think it's possible that the argument against international is similar to the argument in favor of high yield. It's an ideology.

After forty-five years or so of renting, I've probably been lucky; however, I really don't have much in the way of expensive possessions. An extensive library, but probably few, if any first editions? A fifteen year old computer? A picture I bought in Jamaica some forty-five years ago for about twen...

I have been a lifelong renter. Except for one year, I have never carried renter insurance. I guess you can say I self-insure.

I'm retiring at the end of the year. I expect my expenses for my first year will be unusually high, because I am relocating and I will be buying new furniture and a new computer. Who knows, though, for my second year of retirement and beyond.

I guess it's canned tuna for me in retirement.

For any thrifty boglehead that has never experienced Winco, you are seriously missing out. It is cheaper than any other store I've ever been to. Only has stores in these states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. I live in California. I have never seen a Winco. Accord...

Although I like Vanguard more as a company, Fidelity has a better website IMO and so I use them for most of my investing instead. It may sound silly but I am willing to pay a few basis points more in fees to have access to all the website tools that I'm now familiar with. Can't go wrong with either...

The Talmud

Don't we have another thread going on this? Didn't we once have three threads going on this?

Why do I need to go to Morningstar to get my average mutual fund expense ratio when I can figure it out myself?

Death by Station Wagon by Jon Katz, the first of the stay-at-home, suburban dad mysteries featuring Kit Deleeuw. Katz would go on to write about five more of these before he turned his attention to writing about dogs.

Why not just do an Edit - Find?

That's a terrific chart, David.

Let me add my appreciation for your graceful posts and skillful moderating.

Winston Churchill was in favor of getting Britain into the war and convinced Disraeli to also support entering war against Germany. So you can say that Britain entered WWI mostly thanks to Winston Churchill. I'm not sure how that's possible, since Disraeli died about thirty years prior to the onset...

Then there is Grandma Moses.

I'm retiring 01/11/2014 and probably will move to Portland sometime thereafter. Most of my furniture is junk. Except for a nice dining room table, I plan to take little else in the way of furniture.

I don't fly.

Eight, not counting a Vanguard money market fund. Vanguard Value Index Fund Admiral Shares Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund Admiral Shares Vanguard European Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares Vanguard Pacific Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US Small-Cap Index Fund Vanguard...

I think the last choice should be inter-state, not intra-state.

I am re-reading Sign Off, the stand-alone, first novel of Jon Katz. Mr. Katz would go on to read a great series of mystery novels featuring a stay-at-home father. Then, unfortunately, he decided he wanted to write about dogs.

My take home pay is about $500 biweekly. Can you guess how much I tithe?

The Federal Reserve's unprecedented intervention in the U.S. bond market has stimulated more than the economy. Debate is raging over how fixed income investors will fare in the coming years. Kenneth Volpert, head of Vanguard's Taxable Bond Group, and Francis Kinniry, a principal in Vanguard Investm...

You're bumping a year-old thread.

You're bumping a six-year old thread.

Duplicate thread. See http://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=115605&view=unread#unread.

You might want to look at this.

http://www.altruistfa.com/reitfunds.htm

For any thrifty boglehead that has never experienced Winco, you are seriously missing out. It is cheaper than any other store I've ever been to. Only has stores in these states: Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Brian I live in California. I have never seen a Winco.

It would be for me just to see all the Jane Austen sites.

I posted this in another thread , but it's useful to repeat it here too: ...G Fund, which is a fund unique to government employees. It pays the interest of Treasury securities with four or more years to maturity, but it has daily liquidity and the rate changes monthly. It’s always valued at a dolla...