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Tracking VGPMX ( Prec. Metals & Mining) vs. VGENX (Energ

 
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fillol



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PostPosted: Sun May 16, 2010 10:01 pm    Post subject: Tracking VGPMX ( Prec. Metals & Mining) vs. VGENX (Energ Reply with quote
How closely does VGPMX track VGENX? I've held the Precious Metals and Mining Fund for a long, long time. I know it's not a pure gold fund, but it has a good portion of assets in gold mining stocks. Now that everybody and his brother is touting gold, I wonder if I wouldn't be better off in the future with the the Vanguard Energy Fund. I suspect that VGPMX could take a much larger fall than VGENX in these times of peak oil. I consider both of these funds speculative.

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Braumeister



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
They appear to track pretty well, with metals doing better than energy.
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stratton



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PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2010 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Braumeister wrote:
They appear to track pretty well, with metals doing better than energy.

The last 10 years yes.

Not if you go back to 1984.

You see that gold miners were pretty dead until 1999.

Paul
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