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Ironically, it actually presents a case for investing in Hedge funds.

Thanks livesoft. It was paid yesterday. I'll assume it's your last guess, even though it's still odd.

Today in my Vanguard account I noticed a small dividend from CCU of about $0.0448/share. The weird thing is I sold all of my CCU shares in March. Note there was a split last week of 2.5:1 - the per-share amount above is based on the number of shares I would have today if I hadn't sold. Any possible ...

bicker wrote:So basically you just told us your annual salary.

Thanks guys.

I noticed today's check was a bit higher, and when I looked more closely I saw that SS taxes were not being withheld today. Any ideas why this might be the case?

Do people here typically rebalance their taxable accounts during the accumulation phase? It seems like it would be cheaper (tax-wise) to just direct new funds towards the desired AA.

I was talking to a coworker about this and he came up with one of the best ideas I've ever heard: an optional read-only password that you could use for places like Mint, etc.

Money well spent.

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Crap deal...... You know something the market doesn't? He was comparing bonds to cash. It seems like cash has nearly the same yield as bonds, without the rate risk. You can speculate with bonds and hope for capital gains, but their fundamental value is ultimately what they yield. So why does anyone...

Crap deal...... You know something the market doesn't? He was comparing bonds to cash. It seems like cash has nearly the same yield as bonds, without the rate risk. You can speculate with bonds and hope for capital gains, but their fundamental value is ultimately what they yield. So why does anyone...

Exactly the same as a dividend company where you reinvest the dividends. But what about when you invest those dividends outside that company? Mathematically equivalent to selling shares of a non-dividend company and re-investing the proceeds in another company. SSSS, I've always wondered if this is...

Would you agree the board put together her comp package with shareholder value in mind? I suppose you have a point. I can be a worrier sometimes. :| Asking "Should I avoid total stock market index funds?" on the bogleheads forum is like asking "Should I avoid fruits and vegetables?&q...

And even if you owned the stocks directly, your vote wouldn't matter. However, institutional investors do vote, and their vote does matter. if you look at the minutes of the board meetings of these big corporations, you'll see that everything they do is in the best interest of shareholders. The con...

Sage, I wonder why you are focusing on index funds instead of investing in general. Do you really think some, or any, fund manager can pick good stocks if there is manipulation going on that they don't have any more insight into than we do? Perhaps to elicit more responses here :oops:. For what it'...

I wonder if the answer is simply that tech stocks are more of an all-or-nothing game. if you think it is a game,you are right! It is no place for you to invest in TSM,you better go to the short- term thinkers camp. :happy To be clear, I am a buy-and-hold indexer. I still think it's a game, though; ...

But I was concerned specifically about the prevalence of big/successful companies that prove worthless to hold forever. These specific companies had boards that were not acting in the best interests of their shareholders (whether through incompetence or malice I don't know). Shareholders are the ul...

Fair enough, but exactly which big and successful companies are going to prove worthless in the future? Give us a hint and perhaps Vanguard can create an index fund that avoids them. I think there could be some method for finding companies that haven't grown for a while but also have shown no sign ...

Taylor, I'm aware of the many positives of index funds. I'm an indexer myself. But I was concerned specifically about the prevalence of big/successful companies that prove worthless to hold forever. These specific companies had boards that were not acting in the best interests of their shareholders ...

Something has been bothering me lately, and I am wondering if this community can weigh in. There seems to be a non-negligible number of companies that grow to become big and successful, plateau and eventually decline, but never return a PENNY to the buy-and-hold-forever investor. Some examples that ...

You can save yourself a lot of grief if you're just direct with people.

I'm not a big fan of VDAIX. Its expense ratio (.25%) is much higher than VTSAX (.06%, assuming you have enough for admiral shares), and if you look at its dividends over the last decade, they really haven't been growing much at all.

The point of my question was to ask how much ownership is lost because of dilution. Maybe I should have phrased things differently.

If someone owned the entire stock market, what percentage of the market would he/she own after one year?

I assume it would be less than 100% because of share dilution (via share/option grants), but I'm wondering how much less?

With the amount you'll be investing, you should be able to get admiral shares (equivalent but with lower fees). It might do this automatically, but in case it doesn't:

VTSMX -> VTSAX
VGTSX -> VTIAX
VBMFX -> VBTLX

I registered just to comment. Don't give him a penny. I don't even know the guy and he pisses me off. Who cares what he thinks of you? He's a big kid and you're not responsible for him.