Bogleheads

Taylor, thanks for sharing--Good Stuff!

Ken

Similar story to Chris's: Have about $10,000 of our 'casino funds' in Precious Metals and Mining--tax loss harvesting in 2008 and some profit taking in 2009. It has been a wild ride and will continue ...

I use the learnings from all three gentlemen. I use Vanguard's High Yield fund for 10% of fixed income (Ferri) but treat High Yield as 25/75% Equity/FI (Swedroe) and am somewhat of a Portfolio Junkie ...

Hi Retiringsoon,

Jack Bogle talks about Tacticle Asset Allocation in Chapter 3 of 'Common Sense on Mutual Funds'. To quote: "It is an opportunistic, transitory, aggressive policy that---if ski ...

And let us not forget Kristen Armstrong--World cycling champion and gold medalist at the Beijing Olympics. (And no, she is not related to Lance)

I'm in Rick Ferri's camp when it comes to Hi Yield--they make up 10% of my bond portfolio. But I also treat the Hi Yield as having a 25/75 equity/bond characteristic when it comes to my overall asset ...

Put me in the ST Corp camp as well. I made a tacticle move from ST Bond Index to ST Corp in Feb/March of this year. At similar durations of ~2.5 yrs the interest rate premium of 2.5% (5.1 vs 2.6%) at ...

Count me in!

For a number of years I have used Rick Ferri's approach of HY as 10% of my bond allocation (conservative 30/70%) but also use Larry's advice of treating HY as having some equity characteristics--I dec ...

Another strong vote for the Fredericksburg area--the Admiral Nimitz Pacific War museum is a must see. My wife and I spent a full day there last year.

Fredericksburg is in the heart of 'Hill Countr ...

Happy Birthday Taylor! Many thanks for your ongoing investment generosity. Happy sailing and enjoy those 'many roads to Dublin'.

Dear Jack,
Thanks for the message and most of all the creation of Vanguard, a low cost and transparent investment vehicle which has transformed the mutual fund industry. All the best in 2009!

Ken

975.5 it will be!

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