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If you decide you want to learn about treasuries, here's one discussion, that helped me with that:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=250059

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A family member has a good chunk of $$$ sitting in a rather low-interest rate bank account and is interested in moving into one-year CDs. I think for 1 year, Treasuries might be better, if it is a taxable account? Currently yield is about the same but no state income tax on the Treasuries. Aside fr...

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It surprises me, that on this forum direct real estate is not looked at as another way to diversify one's portfolio and is being criticized so often. I don’t think this forum is particularly anti real estate. Yeah, I think it's maybe just anti claims of things like routine 38.75% returns via owning...

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From a prior post, so I don't have to write it out again: Buy a property at $100K, $20K down. Monthly rents of $900-$950. I personally buy in markets with 6-8% long term appreciation, but lets be very conservative and use the general longer-term real estate appreciation value across the entire U.S....

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At Schwab, I took about 35 months at 3.05% and ~3.5 year at ~3.2% at the end of last week. But with their commission structure on secondary, only those with 10 or more available tend to be worthwhile. If I had waited to today, I may have done a little better from what I see. I had figured the marke...

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That's not really how you're supposed to do it either. I'm not the arbiter of what is "supposed" to be done, but it's the exact same comparison, whether you subtract ERs from the index or add them to the funds. Apologies for that, I was going to do it differently but then changed my mind and decide...

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VaR wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:23 pm
That's not really how you're supposed to do it either.

I'm not the arbiter of what is "supposed" to be done, but it's the exact same comparison, whether you subtract ERs from the index or add them to the funds.

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According to the links above, the benchmark returns were 21.41%. Expense ratios: .11% vtiax and .17% for vgtsx Returns: 27.55% vtiax and 27.40% vgtsx Subtracting the expense ratios off the top of these returns gives me 27.44% and 27.23% which are no where near the benchmarks. So there must be some ...

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My guess is, like credit card rewards, they will clamp down on this eventually. I mean, to pay out 4 figures and me never make a trade cannot pay off for them. I guess it depends on what the ratio of churners to new customers is. I don't understand why most credit card companies have not gone the A...

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ThriftyPhD wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 10, 2018 8:48 pm
Four days before maturity.

Thanks

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But many money market funds have a healthy dose of CD's in their portfolio. I did not know that. I guess they must be worthwhile for them, after-all, despite mostly getting no FDIC insurance due to the amounts. I guess you could look up the CUSIPS of some to see if they were issued as short term or...

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1) age: 26 2) marital status: single 3) driving history: this is my first car 5) state of residence: NJ You will pay a lot. https://www.valuepenguin.com/best-cheap-car-insurance-new-jersey#average Quotes will vary so you are going to need to divulge information to a number of insurance companies at...

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You can read about pretty much every available prepaid plan here:

https://www.prepaidphonenews.com/2011/0 ... s.html?m=1

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One option with the T-bills is to do a 6 month ladder, with 1/6 of your fund maturing each month. In Treasury Direct, you can set them to reinvest until you need the money, then turn off reinvestment and have the matured bills deposited to your account. How many days prior to the reinvestment date ...

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Another Tip: If you are going to buy a secondary market CD at a premium, you should double check the bank's credit worthiness. As pointed out above, FDIC does not cover the amount you have paid at a premium. Bankrate.com has a "Safe & Sound" rating system that you can plug in the name of the bank a...

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dm200 wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 11, 2018 8:25 am
At Vanguard - no commission on new issues.

That is the case at Fidelity, Schwab, and most others as well.

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just some facts about my first brokered CD order The minimum order is 10K; if you order ten, that's 10K. It says price 100; it seems like the price should be 1000? The calculate button on the order page helped me get it right. I've just bought my first few recently. The minimum varies at least at S...

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Posts below are from May, the TDA offer is valid through end of September, IIRC. Schwab matched the TDA offer for me and others. I'm moving just over $100,000 into a new Schwab Roth IRA account. The Schwab representative has told me that they'll match any monetary offer by another firm so long as I ...

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M* analyst report says: In late 2017, the series began making changes within the bond sleeve. It's reducing exposure to an intermediate-term bond fund to 45% of the bond sleeve to make way for an unconstrained bond fund and a hedged international-bond fund, which will take 10% and 15% of bond assets...

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I usually got my progressives from pearl. Last year I tried costco. They are dramatically inferior - much more distortion depending on my head position. That said I still use the costco glasses - unless I keep switching my glasses I won't realize the increased distortion and they are much less expe...

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I month treasury is over 1.8%, to me a CD should at least pay more than a treasury (and savings accounts) to be worthwhile. What about 2-3 year brokered CDs at about 2.8%-3.1%? Thought of that but this is my mom’s IRA and she is in her mid 80s. Not sure I want to tie up her $$ that long in case of ...

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I month treasury is over 1.8%, to me a CD should at least pay more than a treasury (and savings accounts) to be worthwhile.

What about 2-3 year brokered CDs at about 2.8%-3.1%?

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Checking an old annual report, here covering the end of November 2007, net assets were $50.8 billion. Looks like it was then invested in mega caps as it does today; I don't imagine asset bloat to be that huge an issue. But was the argument that even 10 years ago it was too large, and in multiple de...

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Wellington has underperformed its composite index over the past 10 years, a classic case of a fund becoming too big to outperform ($100 billion in assets) and turning into a closet index fund. Another example of recency bias and skating to where the puck was. Or is it, perhaps, at least partly beca...

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At Schwab, I took about 35 months at 3.05% and ~3.5 year at ~3.2% at the end of last week. But with their commission structure on secondary, only those with 10 or more available tend to be worthwhile. If I had waited to today, I may have done a little better from what I see. I had figured the market...

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My observation is that successful landlords are able to treat tenants was replaceable temporary objects instead of people because to make money you have to do repairs in a very cost efficient way that is likely very different than you would have done to you home or with your family. Which leads me ...

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As an example, a $25K down payment on a $120K property, would yield $2.5K per year - thats your 10% income figure. I guess I would see $2500 per year on a $120,000 property as 2.1%. You are just leveraging that up by borrowing. While the properties may appreciate in value, they may also decline or ...

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M* analysis of the DFA Five-Year Global Fixed Income also says the same thing:

...prioritizes the markets with the steepest yield curve...
...it targets the portion of the yield curve with the highest expected returns...

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This is the real point that markets are priced on the perception of the potential for future earnings, no one cares what a company made this year, or last year and so on. For some companies investors are looking 3 to 6 months out for some they are looking 5 to 10 years out. But they are always look...

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Some of the posts above are really getting a bit snippy about what is a bog-standard valuation prediction. Agree, this happens frequently on here. Any reasonable estimate of expected returns is treated as if it should be interpreted as a precise prediction of what is going to happen over some preci...

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The giant spike in P/E was known as the great recession. As earnings go to 0, P/E does go to infinity, this is usually not a reason to expect low long term returns. Your statement implies that earnings go all the way to zero and that price remains constant. Neither happened during the great recessi...

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The giant spike in P/E was known as the great recession. As earnings go to 0, P/E does go to infinity, this is usually not a reason to expect low long term returns.

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The one big difference between historical & forward looking numbers this year is tax reform. The historical numbers do not capture this known positive for earnings in 2018. Packer Yes, it would be interesting to know what the past 10 years of earnings would've been with the lower corporate tax rate...

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As promised ... Let's say that the yield curve did not remain static, which is the assumption on which the expected return and roll return were based, but instead increased at all terms by 20 basis points over the one-year holding period. This is how the realized returns would compare to the initia...

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Meanwhile on anther page, M* analysts have expected returns at over 9% for US stocks.

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Of course you can do whatever you want with bonds. But that's not something that I have ever seen suggested by Larry. So there's really no reason to believe his suggestion has anything to do with the roll down return. I'd guess it's just based on a some "normal" or average yield curve. The average 2...

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If you're a novice investor, I would steer clear of ETFs, simply because you're going to too tempted to trade them frequently, usually when a fund is doing well (buying high) and selling laggards (selling low). This is especially tempting with VG having no-fee ETF trades now, which takes away the s...

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A search for "rolling down the yield curve" or "roll down return", finds descriptions relevant to bonds without all the commodity related ones.

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I thought Larry's suggestion of 20 bp per year was just related to getting adequate compensation for extending, as stated here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-important-considerations-when-building-bond-portfolios/ I would not think it was based on trading bonds in order to collect the maximum roll ...

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When there's no third party involved in arranging the tow, I think you can be on top of someone's pile, just call and hire whichever towing company can come immediately. In the age of smartphones, there's really no value in having a dispatch service as an intermediary. My Visa tow call said within a...

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A new Hyundai typically has five years of free roadside assistance (for that car only). I would check the owners manual for the details and the phone number to call in an emergency. Keep the number handy. Call the dealer if you can't find the information, before you need it. There is an important n...

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Two points about AAA. First, it covers any vehicle you're in, not just your normal vehicle. Don't know if manufacturers RA works like that. Second I discovered while making hotel reservations one time that AAA had roughly the same rates as the online "wizards", but the AAA rate was fully refundable...

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If you are in a rental, why would you not just call the rental company?

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Personally, roadside issues have been rare for me, and I can call a tow truck company myself as easily as calling AAA. I've never used the service, but many Visa cards (I think all Visa 'signature' level cards) come with various extra services including dispatching roadside assistance for a flat-fe...

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When asking these brokerages if they'll match other institution's bonuses, can I do it over email or chat or is it better to call? I emailed local Schwab branch for an appointment, included a link to the offer I was asking them to match and how much I intended to transfer. I was called back very qu...

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Taxes are one consideration in deciding best location for whatever she chooses to invest in. https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Tax-efficient_fund_placement But that needs to be based on her actual tax situation, convenience and the need to take RMDs are additional considerations. To me TIPS vs. CDs lo...

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Why an ETF, instead of a plain old mutual fund, eg. VTAPX? Wouldn't TIPS in taxable and CDs in IRA make more sense, since the TIPS would be exempt from state income taxes? For a direct comparison, look at a 2-3 year CD, at maybe 2.8-3% nominal vs. real return for an individual TIPS with 2-3 years to...

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VASIX ER is 0.11%. You may see 0% in some places but that is bad data that ignores the underlying fund costs. It is a fund of funds, the 0.11% represents the costs of the underlying funds. VASIX adds no additional costs, so that's where they get 0%. I recently saw a report that the dollar weighted a...

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I get it. The brightest stock analysts cannot beat the market with their actively managed funds… But why can’t those same bright ones at least identify 25 dogs out of 500 large companies? Or 20? Or even 10? What exactly makes something like that so very difficult to accomplish? Have you heard of "d...

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Pretty sure it's too late to file any claims on that, anyway.

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