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- Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:32 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: ESPP p/e
- Replies: 2
- Views: 536
ESPP p/e
Is there a P/E value above which one would not chose to invest (17, 20,50,etc)? I was also looking at the overall price and curious if there was a cut off that would make most people here cringe? Normally if a stock is in the $50s or higher per share I regard it as a bit too pricey for my tastes. [I have accepted that the stock market is at all time highs and even a mining fund that is selling for < $9 / share happens to have a P/E in the hundreds....] I looked at the wiki and it said that one should compare the stock's P/E to the industry standard. If it was lower than the industry standard, would that make people say "it's a good deal despite either of those 2 above facts?" This would not be a large part of my portfolio, and I h...
- Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:18 am
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: [What UN-frugal thing do you do? What do you splurge on?]
- Replies: 785
- Views: 84182
Re: What do you splurge on?
+1 !VictoriaF wrote:If time is money, I splurge my time on the Bogleheads Forum.
Victoria
- Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:16 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: roth IRA conversion q
- Replies: 2
- Views: 728
Re: roth IRA conversion q
Thank you!
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:35 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Bonds and Beta
- Replies: 2
- Views: 477
Bonds and Beta
My understanding of Beta is a measurement of volatility and difference from the stock market. I was taught that the more volatile a financial instrument is (risky) went alongside with the potential for a higher reward. So I'm a bit confused about the following statistics when I was comparing some of Vanguard's muni funds. Is it because the short term tax exempt is subject to a much higher call risk or is it another factor? Historical volatility measures Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt Inv 1.16 Vanguard Long-Term Tax-Exempt Inv 1.15 Vanguard Inter-Term Tax-Exempt Inv 1.19 Vanguard Ltd-Term Tax-Exempt Inv 1.05 Vanguard Short-Term Tax-Exempt Inv 1.86 Average duration 6.0 years Vanguard High-Yield Tax-Exempt Inv 6.1 years Vanguard Long-Term Tax-...
- Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: roth IRA conversion q
- Replies: 2
- Views: 728
roth IRA conversion q
Suppose one contributed the max to one's roth IRA, $5,500.
Then one learned that next year one would get a raise of a similar amount.
One would also like to convert a tiny traditional ira to a roth ira 50.
Can one un-contribute the difference to one's ira?
Do conversions from traditional to roth count (say 50) against the total max contributions [$5,500] that one may make to one's ira? / Does one have to wait till next year to make the conversion without being taxed for over contributing to one's ira?
Is there a 2 year time limit on when one can convert from traditional type to roth another and back again?
Then one learned that next year one would get a raise of a similar amount.
One would also like to convert a tiny traditional ira to a roth ira 50.
Can one un-contribute the difference to one's ira?
Do conversions from traditional to roth count (say 50) against the total max contributions [$5,500] that one may make to one's ira? / Does one have to wait till next year to make the conversion without being taxed for over contributing to one's ira?
Is there a 2 year time limit on when one can convert from traditional type to roth another and back again?
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:27 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: [What UN-frugal thing do you do? What do you splurge on?]
- Replies: 785
- Views: 84182
Re: What doyou splurge on?
What's H&B?saladdin wrote:H & B.
- Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:33 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Buffett Says ‘No-Brainer’ to Get a Mortgage to Short Rates
- Replies: 77
- Views: 13519
Re: Buffett Says ‘No-Brainer’ to Get a Mortgage to Short Rat
This is where I ask:
So to save [$0.00 to $0.396]* on my taxes I should spend $1 in interest?
Are you a loan officer in disguise?
Yes, I know mortgages are cheap.
I know living in apartments in *horrible.*
But seriously, please enlighten me. Isn't this more of a lifestyle choice some people like renting, some people like owning?
* I do not wish to state my income, je suis pauvre.
So to save [$0.00 to $0.396]* on my taxes I should spend $1 in interest?
Are you a loan officer in disguise?
Yes, I know mortgages are cheap.
I know living in apartments in *horrible.*
But seriously, please enlighten me. Isn't this more of a lifestyle choice some people like renting, some people like owning?
* I do not wish to state my income, je suis pauvre.
- Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:29 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: tired of zero hedge, got an alt news site?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7763
Re: tired of zero hedge, got an alt news site?
Thank you. I just finished reading a collection of 30's New Yorker strips.
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: tired of zero hedge, got an alt news site?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 7763
tired of zero hedge, got an alt news site?
What news sites aside from the traditional gamut of nbc/abc/cbs/ local paper/ npr slightly more financed focus (cnbc), permabear (zerohedge) do you folks look at? One person suggested worldnetdaily, but i wondered about others. I'm just tired of gloom and doom on zerohedge or going to the "news of the wierd sites like at huntington post.
- Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:31 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Are 20 somethings handicapped bc of inflation and little SS?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 15589
Re: Are 20 somethings handicapped bc of inflation and little
Jack wrote:You might want to refresh your memory. That is not what the social security report said at all.newbogleb wrote:For every $1 of Social Security tax paid this year, the benefit that will be paid in the future is $0.75. Source: social security report sent to me a few years ago.
What did it say? I'll grant you, it was a few years ago.
- Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:08 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Are 20 somethings handicapped bc of inflation and little SS?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 15589
Re: Are 20 somethings handicapped bc of inflation and little
Life "today" always feels harder than "yesterday". Just consider yourself lucky that you weren't born in a time where the draft existed. If the biggest problem you face in life is a delayed retirement, you are doing well. Save 20% of your income into a reasonable asset allocation and enjoy life. For every $1 of Social Security tax paid this year, the benefit that will be paid in the future is $0.75. Source: social security report sent to me a few years ago. Of course older people don't have as many cell phones and cell phone bills. I'd say that life is a bit harder now than in the past for that reason. Prior generations were nickle-d and dime-d. Newer generations get quartered. Subsequent generations will be dollar-ed t...
- Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:46 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Inflation question
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3621
Re: Inflation question
I'd like to *bump* this thread because I think the last poster asked a good question that I do not know the answer to. The other reason I'd like it answered is because I went on a tour of one of the gov't printing offices, and the tour guide admitted how much currency was being eliminated each month (from ware/tear) versus being newly printed and the printing amount was higher. Ergo inflation should be happening, and gas prices have increased over the past 14 years.$2 gas? $1 gas? Can anyone recall when it was less than $1? I can. I'm not that antedeluvian.
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:14 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: CEO of DFA moving to Austin, Texas
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19617
Re:
From... The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns: A Tenth Anniversary Reflection(6/02) Ten years ago this month, Eugene Fama and Kenneth French fired the shot heard ’round the world. Its echoes still plainly reverberate today in boardrooms and trading floors. And although most investors are unaware, these effects also appear regularly in their mailboxes under the guise of investment-account statements. Heeding these findings, investors (myself included) began to accumulate small- and value-weighted portfolios Growth $3.6M since 1993: DFA US SV = $30,000,000 Russell 2000 Value Etf (hypothetical) = $20,800,000 Vanguard US Total Market = $14,700,000 I think that may explain the animosity 8) ! SmallHI How are these two people (Eugene Fama a...
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:18 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: What to do in Austin, TX
- Replies: 52
- Views: 8114
Re: What to do in Austin, TX
1. Do you get a nice souvenir on the tour the Collings plant? Do they let you strum a guitar or give lessons/coupons?
2. Is part of the Austin river shaped into a lake which is why they call it lake Austin? Really Is there a Ladybird lake?
3. What makes visiting the John Mueller Meat Co so great? I like eating cow. Do they teach me how to skin an animal or ride a bull?
4. Which bridge is this?
2. Is part of the Austin river shaped into a lake which is why they call it lake Austin? Really Is there a Ladybird lake?
3. What makes visiting the John Mueller Meat Co so great? I like eating cow. Do they teach me how to skin an animal or ride a bull?
4. Which bridge is this?
There is a bridge where something like 2 million Mexican brown bats live.
Every evening at dusk they come flying out. Quite the sight to see.
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 9:56 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: roth ira in foreign stock fund
- Replies: 6
- Views: 571
Re: roth ira in foreign stock fund
thank you again!
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 7:17 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: roth ira in foreign stock fund
- Replies: 6
- Views: 571
Re: roth ira in foreign stock fund
That's what I thought, but thank you for confirming!
Would it be wiser for me to move the roth ira into a domestic fund and put taxable money or a traditional ira into the foreign fund?
Would it be wiser for me to move the roth ira into a domestic fund and put taxable money or a traditional ira into the foreign fund?
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:39 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: roth ira in foreign stock fund
- Replies: 6
- Views: 571
roth ira in foreign stock fund
If I have a roth ira that is invested (partly) in a foreign stock mutual fund, would I get to have a credit for paying foreign income taxes?
- Thu Jan 23, 2014 11:15 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: house & community property state questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 665
Re: house & community property state questions
Couple live/marry in AZ, buy house in AZ (House 2). House 1 in Maryland.
Houses were not put on trailers, but left in the original spot of purchase (land) because a local in maryland wanted to rent the house. Income to pay mortgage comes from salary earned in AZ for both houses.
I find it hard to believe that the (rental payments) minus ( expenses) would ever be able to always cover the mortgage+repair costs/etc.
semi-off topic, I heard about a widow who lost a lot due to california's community property state & a husband's lack of estate planning. It baffled me. I wouldn't want that to happen if I'd die.
Houses were not put on trailers, but left in the original spot of purchase (land) because a local in maryland wanted to rent the house. Income to pay mortgage comes from salary earned in AZ for both houses.
I find it hard to believe that the (rental payments) minus ( expenses) would ever be able to always cover the mortgage+repair costs/etc.
semi-off topic, I heard about a widow who lost a lot due to california's community property state & a husband's lack of estate planning. It baffled me. I wouldn't want that to happen if I'd die.
- Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:59 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: (UPDATE: Scratch This Plan) 100% Equities until age 55-ish
- Replies: 106
- Views: 10169
Re: 100% Equities until age 55-58
Gekko wrote:
"Dear Future Self -
....
Good luck -
Your Past Self"
Dear Self:
When I lose money I'm sad.
When the price of stocks/bonds go up I'm sad too because I have to spend more $ to buy the same amount of shares as the day earlier.
If only I was like Mark Twain who was able to have 2 contradictory thoughts in his head at the same time.
I can't win. Full disclosure: I believe in both bonds and stocks, but I wish I was re-tired. All this thinking is making me tired.
Kind regards,
Selfie
- Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:02 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: house & community property state questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 665
house & community property state questions
I apologize if this has been asked elsewhere.
Suppose male person 1 gets a mortgage on a house in a non-community property state. It is only titled in his name. Later he gets married to female person 2 in a community property state.
q 1) husband dies before mortgage is paid off. Does wife owe anything?
30 years pass. The couple one pays off the mortgage with their salary. Then the house is paid off.
q 2) If husband dies without changing the title, does the wife automatically inherit the house?
q3) Does it matter if the husband puts the house into a non-revocable trust either before the marriage or afterwards?
Suppose male person 1 gets a mortgage on a house in a non-community property state. It is only titled in his name. Later he gets married to female person 2 in a community property state.
q 1) husband dies before mortgage is paid off. Does wife owe anything?
30 years pass. The couple one pays off the mortgage with their salary. Then the house is paid off.
q 2) If husband dies without changing the title, does the wife automatically inherit the house?
q3) Does it matter if the husband puts the house into a non-revocable trust either before the marriage or afterwards?
- Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:36 pm
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: International REITs anyone?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 12909
Re: International REITs anyone?
What is meant by lose FTC (roughly 10% of div yield)?two key points.....and lose FTC (roughly 10% of div yield).So have to decide how much you think diversification is worth.
- Wed Jan 22, 2014 4:59 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Where to put emergency funds?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3211
Re: Where to put emergency funds?
Suppose one has an IRA for 4 years at bank/brokerage company A. Then they decide to move it all to bank/brokerage company B. Can the person withdraw from company B after 1 year, or after 5 years?
Lets assume person is 60 years old when contemplating the withdrawal. They were slow to discover the wisdom of boggle-heads.
Lets assume person is 60 years old when contemplating the withdrawal. They were slow to discover the wisdom of boggle-heads.
- Sat Jan 11, 2014 4:10 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Cell Phones and Service Plans
- Replies: 1
- Views: 611
Re: Cell Phones and Service Plans
Is there a list somewhere of the number of times these companies pull one's credit? I noticed mine was pulled more than once while having service and thus do not like AT&T as much. By the way I was current on all bills.
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 10:07 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Navy Federal - 1 Year 4% CD (Up to $4K) Offer until Sep 23
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5035
Re: Navy Federal - 1 Year 4% CD (Up to $4K) Offer until Sep
How about retired contractors / civilians too? Do you think the NCUA would try to get them in hot water if they tried that? Yes, i know the link is from a year old and the rate is not current anymore.
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:54 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: How low to go on selling a rental property?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3776
- Fri Jan 10, 2014 9:44 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: VTSMX or VFINX? [Vanguard Total Stock vs. 500 Index]
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10789
Re: VTSMX or VFINX?
Thank you Taylor. I had never thought of doing that. I clearly need to log into this site more often.
- Thu Jan 09, 2014 8:35 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: How low to go on selling a rental property?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3776
Re: How low to go on selling a rental property?
If you got a range of 50-60K difference from those sources below, how would you feel about the house? Let's assume it really was the cheapest house on the block. By the way, I appreciate knowing about some other sites to determine house value. Clearly_Irrational » Wed Jan 08, 2014 1:55 pm If you want out you should ask for the market price. Here's a quick method I use to determine that, take the average of the following values: Rental Value (Current gross rents/6.06 * 1000) Eappraisal.com estimate Chase.com estimate Trulia.com estimate County Tax Value (From the county tax site or your records) Zillow.com estimate Realestate.com estimate Fifth Third Bank estimate Generally that should get you a pretty good ballpark number to shoot for as to...
- Fri Nov 22, 2013 10:43 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Notary made me raise my right hand and swear...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3941
Re: Notary made me raise my right hand and swear...
Which AAA office are you near and Is that true for all AAA offices? I haven't been a AAA member in a while.Watty » Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:34 pm
It was a few years ago when I needed it but my AAA office will notarize things for free for members.
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:16 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Asset protection and annuities/life insurance?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2351
Re: Asset protection and annuities/life insurance?
Does anyone have any personal experience with the lawyers listed on this page? Feel free to PM me.
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Want income but preserve capital
- Replies: 40
- Views: 4483
Re: Want income but preserve capital
Is there a median time that Non-trade REIT's wait until they go public? I can afford to wait a while, I just need to know for my A.A. Re: Want income but preserve capital by PacNorWest » Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:17 pm I'm not sure that this online forum is the best place to obtain ALL the information that you seek. A financial advisor can get you what you want. BUT you did not mention "liquidity" in your specification. Non-trade REIT's pretty much pay 6.5 percent - BUT you cannot redeem the principle unless/until the REIT goes public. For example, at my discretion, my FA put me in Cole REIT before it went public (it is now trading on the NYSE as COLE). It paid 6.5% which I reinvested in shares at a discounted price through my FA. That R...
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:45 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Early payoff of the mortgage
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2594
Re: Early payoff of the mortgage
I have a similar question....
Suppose one has a rental property that one owes a mortgage on (4%). One is living in a rental due to work in a different area. Assuming no other debt exists and one doesn't mind investing in the market based on their A.A. is there any particular benefit in paying off the rental other than the joy of knowing its paid off?
Suppose one has a rental property that one owes a mortgage on (4%). One is living in a rental due to work in a different area. Assuming no other debt exists and one doesn't mind investing in the market based on their A.A. is there any particular benefit in paying off the rental other than the joy of knowing its paid off?
- Sun Aug 25, 2013 10:25 pm
- Forum: Personal Consumer Issues
- Topic: Choice Of Weapon For Personal Home Self Defense
- Replies: 123
- Views: 11680
Re: Choice Of Weapon For Personal Home Self Defense
by Professor Emeritus We built our house with multiple layer internal protection. We have full solid exterior doors and hardware on the only door to the upstairs. Our bedroom and the children's bedroom all have solid reinforced doors with exterior hardware. Do you mean locks for hardware? The only other thing I can think of is a peep holes & I normally think of a peep hole only for the main door into the house, but I suppose if a wacko got into the house at night time & for whatever reason one wanted to look and see who was out there without opening the door it might be nice to know before one opens the door, though I'd guess the voice would give the stranger away. Do you have suggestions of door manufacturers that make very good s...
- Sat Aug 24, 2013 11:17 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: VTSMX or VFINX? [Vanguard Total Stock vs. 500 Index]
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10789
Re: VTSMX or VFINX?
I hope I'm not prying in asking this. What did you buy after you sold it? Bonds, REITs,etc? If I am I guess my bigger point of curiosity is:livesoft » Sun Aug 18, 2013 4:26 pm
I prefer VTSMX because it has more stocks, large, mid, small. But I don't own any shares of it.
<snip>
2. I had to sell Vanguard Total Stock Market Index fund when it lost money and I wanted to tax-loss harvest it. I had to buy something else for replacement shares.
Suppose one's AA wanted to stay in stocks are you allowed to buy a limited sector of stock (like a tech ETF) in abiding by the wash-sale rule, or does one just wait 32-ish days to buy another total market type fund & hope it hasn't gone up much since then?
- Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:48 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Paying for second home with cash prior to marriage...
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4180
Re: Paying for second home with cash prior to marriage...
This post is intended to be entirely without sarcasm. Is it possible to write a prenup that says approximately: Both parties to this agreement waive all future right to sue for divorce because their values require that marriage is a life time commitment. Both parties understand that there will be arguments. There will be bad days. There will be annoying relatives. Another spouse may always leave the tooth paste cap off thus drying it up and wasting it. One may be a cheap saver and the other may be a spendthrift. One spouse will always do something completely 100% idiotic. It may have very bad consequences that will last for decades, but you love the moron anyway despite their inherent flaws and disordered genetic components. That'd be the o...
- Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:52 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: math for buying a house?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2300
Re: math for buying a house?
Thank you all. I went from renting to owning to renting,and possibly will own again all because of work. Before I go back I wanted some advice about doing it more prudently and not just owning for the sake of owning.
One other question. When saving up for the down payment, it's best to have it separate from one's emergency fund right? I.e. have bank account 1: down payment and bank account two: emergency fund? (or just have 1 bank account, but not pay the down payment until one has saved up enough for both the down payment and also pay for emergency expenses).
One other question. When saving up for the down payment, it's best to have it separate from one's emergency fund right? I.e. have bank account 1: down payment and bank account two: emergency fund? (or just have 1 bank account, but not pay the down payment until one has saved up enough for both the down payment and also pay for emergency expenses).
- Fri Aug 23, 2013 10:11 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: math for buying a house?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2300
math for buying a house?
Suppose the house is $100,000; one has saved up 20k put 20% down. The expected mortgage payment is about $100 less than current rental payments. To justify buying the house one should live in it for 16-17 years before one breaks even?
$20,000 / 1200 = 16.67 (100 $ / month savings * 12 months/ year).
Is my math right?
Of course this doesn't consider that appliances fall apart, the grass must be mowed, the water & electric bills are typically higher than an apartment, depreciation, etc....
$20,000 / 1200 = 16.67 (100 $ / month savings * 12 months/ year).
Is my math right?
Of course this doesn't consider that appliances fall apart, the grass must be mowed, the water & electric bills are typically higher than an apartment, depreciation, etc....
- Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:15 am
- Forum: Investing - Theory, News & General
- Topic: Euro currency question
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1111
Euro currency question
I was wondering why the USD ($) buys less when converted into a Euro? I expected with all the Euro meltdown rumors, and "haircuts" that 1 USD would be more valuable than 1 euro or am I reading the currency converters wrong?
I guess its just proof that much of the finance news is just noise to be ignored.
I guess its just proof that much of the finance news is just noise to be ignored.
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:03 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Tax question ( w2 vs 1099 )
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1179
Tax question ( w2 vs 1099 )
Are 1099 contractors required to pay income tax to the government on a quarterly basis like some companies or does one just pay one's taxes on April 15 each year?
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:33 am
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Asset protection and annuities/life insurance?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2351
Asset protection and annuities/life insurance?
Having read the wiki about Asset protection and some posts about annuities/life insurance I was a bit confused. * To take an example from a wiki: suppose I hire someone to help me garden, and they get injured. Then I get sued. The amount exceeds my home owners/umbrella insurance policies. It's not covered by a malpractice policy. * Another example: I start a small business. Suppose a super dissatisfied customer sues me. In both cases the judge agrees with the other person and I'm asked to fork over my life savings. (Note in real life neither happened). Can one use term life insurance or must one buy the overpriced whole life to have protection (and if so why)? I wondered how to determine if the costs of annuities/life insurance would be wor...
- Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:16 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: International investing / tax question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 471
Re: International investing / tax question
Thank you for the reply & directing me to the IRS form!
- Sun Jul 07, 2013 10:14 am
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Selling Treasuries?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1530
Re: Selling Treasuries?
I don't have them yet. I was going to purchase some to have a better mix of bond/stocks. I was also thinking about putting some of my emergency fund in it.
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:36 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: International investing / tax question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 471
International investing / tax question
Correct me if I'm wrong about this I don't know much about investing and I didn't see it explained in the wiki.
If I were to buy shares in a foreign company that pays dividends (somehow through a broker maybe???), that company has to pay taxes on its dividend. Then I get credit when I file my taxes since the taxes have been paid once overseas.
If I buy shares in a mutual fund that invests in foreign companies, for tax purposes I can't claim the foreign taxes paid in my individual income tax return, right?
So if I wanted to invest in the overseas markets how can I get the tax credit? By the way, does Vanguard offer this or would one have to use some other firm?
If I were to buy shares in a foreign company that pays dividends (somehow through a broker maybe???), that company has to pay taxes on its dividend. Then I get credit when I file my taxes since the taxes have been paid once overseas.
If I buy shares in a mutual fund that invests in foreign companies, for tax purposes I can't claim the foreign taxes paid in my individual income tax return, right?
So if I wanted to invest in the overseas markets how can I get the tax credit? By the way, does Vanguard offer this or would one have to use some other firm?
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:28 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Selling Treasuries?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1530
Re: Selling Treasuries?
Ok, I'll have to use a brokerage account then. thank you.
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:55 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Selling Treasuries?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1530
Selling Treasuries?
How quick can one sell Treasury Bills? I read how one has to print out a form and bring it to a bank or a broker.
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 10:56 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: ira tax loss harvesting?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 437
ira tax loss harvesting?
My apologies if these are dumb questions.
Say one owns 2 individual stocks in an IRA. After a certain time one has lost value & the other stock gained value. One can then do the tax loss harvesting by selling both?
Or if one only wants to sell the loser can one use that to lower the amount of taxes that uncle sam needs to get for that year?
Say one owns 2 individual stocks in an IRA. After a certain time one has lost value & the other stock gained value. One can then do the tax loss harvesting by selling both?
Or if one only wants to sell the loser can one use that to lower the amount of taxes that uncle sam needs to get for that year?
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:37 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: 401(k) rollover question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 525
Re: 401(k) rollover question
Thank you!
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:26 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: 401(k) rollover question
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- Views: 525
401(k) rollover question
Say a person has 10,000 in a 401(k) and is laid off. If the worker wants to convert it into an IRA can the worker only convert the 5,500/6,500 into an IRA, and just hope that the plan administrator won't be angry by a partial roll over?
I guess plan B is to just leave it with the plan and make the required distributions at a later date (i.e. retirement)?
I guess plan B is to just leave it with the plan and make the required distributions at a later date (i.e. retirement)?
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:11 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Rental Property: Risk vs. reward [How to determine]
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Re: Rental Property: Risk vs. reward [How to determine]
Thanks for the tips!
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:10 pm
- Forum: Personal Finance (Not Investing)
- Topic: Buying an "investment" condo II
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Re: Buying an "investment" condo II
Thanks for the tips!
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 8:10 pm
- Forum: Personal Investments
- Topic: Long term buy/hold investing choices
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- Views: 637
Re: Long term buy/hold investing choices
Sorry for the delayed reply, but I just want to thank you for your advice.