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CyberBob

DanMahowny wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:02 pm
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Same for me.

DanMahowny wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:02 pm
Net worth tripled since then too.

Also same for me. We're Boglehead twins

CyberBob

Does your PDF document have to stay in PDF?
If not, convert it to Kindle format by emailing it to your kindle using the Send to Kindle convert function. Once you do that, you can change font sizes and such just like any normal Kindle book.

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Here's the full list.
Total Stock declaration date is September 20.
https://investornews.vanguard/find-out- ... his-month/

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I always find looking at the web server logs amusing. Just last week I was getting a lot of probes from a purported Chinese IP address. They were looking for a vulnerability in a particular contact-manager program. It seems that whoever was looking isn't too sophisticated, because not only do I not ...

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Hi Fidelity www listed below for International Index funds, which fund is the equivalent to VG VTIAX? 1) FSPNX - Fidelity® International Index Fund - Institutional Class - https://fundresearch.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/summary/315911735 FSIVX - Fidelity® International Index Fund - Premium Developed...

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It's often discussed that you don't need much of an ex-US stock allocation since the large U.S. companies are all international and get a significant part of their revenue from outside the U.S. So it's interesting that iShares is debuting a 'Pure' U.S. revenue ETF that consists of companies that do ...

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That's a great idea that we should keep up-to-date on Sharpe's allocation. Maybe we should add it to the wiki. It looks like your numbers from the spreadsheet are as follows: CRSP U.S: $25,089,806.00 FTSE All-World ex U.S.: $20,585,441.00 Citi: USBIG: $18,860,820.00 Citi: WorldBIG - USBIG: $18,373,2...

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For anyone interested, here's Graham's entire 1963 speech Securities in an Insecure World.

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triceratop wrote:...pure treasury funds from iShares...

That's probably the reason for the change. Vanguard's current treasury funds aren't indexed and don't have ETF shares. After this benchmark change, Vanguard will have pure treasury ETF's to compete with that big iShares volume.

CyberBob

Here are a couple of rebalancing calculators that are pretty cool:

https://www.bee-man.us/finance/portfolio_rebalance.htm
http://optimalrebalancing.tk

CyberBob

In my cash management account I use SPRXX -- Fidelity Money Market. The current yield is 0.96%. They liquidate it at the end of each day to reconcile debits in the account. Isn't the FDIC-insured deposit sweep account your core position for the cash account? How do you get an automatic draw from SP...

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25,089,806/22,271,698 is about 53/47 US/Ex-US for the equity portion... Yep, right in-line with the Total World Stock Index fund (VTWSX/VT), which Sharpe would seem to prefer to use for simplicity and not having to rebalance, but doesn't, as he mentions in the video, because it's still a bit more e...

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The June 30 end-of-quarter numbers are out for the indexes that Sharpe mentions in the video. So to keep the portfolio allocations up-to-date for anyone who is interested, here are the numbers (in millions of USD): 25,089,806 - US stocks - CRSP US Total Market Index 22,271,698 - ex US stocks - FTSE ...

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W. Bernstein advocates not having money in stocks that you need for the next 10-15 years. (can't find the exact spot where he says this, but this is my memory - might have been a straight "15 years", and I am adding the "10"). Wow - this is a long time, and very few retirees can afford to have 15 y...

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It's not possible fore every investor to own that fund. And even if they did, the price would have been bid up so far that the future returns would be extremely low. It's silly advice. If everyone tilted towards small-value, it wouldn't even be a tilt anymore, but would simply be a new current make-...

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https://www.abebooks.com
I just bought a mint used copy of Bill Bernstein's book The Birth of Plenty in hardcover for $4.57, and that included postage.

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Jack Bogle has mentioned Dodge & Cox and Longleaf Partners.

CyberBob

blueman457 wrote:(although cyberbob I might take you up on your offer!)

Sorry Blue Man, but the early Bogleheads got the worms...er, routers. All three Airport Expresses have now been spoken for.

CyberBob

William Jennings, a professor of finance at the Air Force Academy, along with William Reichenstein, a professor at Baylor University have written an academic paper on how to calculate the value of a military pension.

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blueman457 wrote:(although cyberbob I might take you up on your offer!)

I've got two left now. Somebody snapped up the third one.
Although, if you've already got one, adding two more as extenders should be more than enough, unless your house is hotel-size

CyberBob

Airport Expresses work stupendously well as extenders for another Airport/Express. I had three of them in a three-story 7,000 square foot house and there wasn't a dead-spot anywhere, even in the backyard. I actually have three spare Expresses I'm not using right now and wondering what to do with the...

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Financial guru Bill Bernstein had an interesting answer to the Social Security now/then question: There are two possible goals with SS: 1) buy the optimal amount of longevity insurance for a given input, or 2) optimize your total amount of SS benefits. Both are valid goals, but let's assume you want...

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Lapham's Quarterly

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When's the June meeting?
Are the meetings still on the second Saturday of every other month? In this case, June 10th?

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ribonucleic wrote:Is it a certainty that Vanguard will immediately process a seven-figure purchase order - even for a money market fund?

Vanguard has a list of large transaction limits by fund. For some funds it's as low as $100k, but for money markets it is $50 mil.

https://advisors.vanguard.com/VGApp/iip ... ments/ltqt

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E-filed on March 19. A couple weeks later I got a letter instructing me to call the IRS to verify my identity. Did that within a couple days and the guy on the phone said it could take up to another nine weeks for the refund to arrive. That happened to me last year. The good news was that they said...

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What is the reason for discrepancy between your and SIFMA source data ? Sharpe talks in the video about the indexes that the Vanguard funds follow. Essentially, they simply aren't quite as total as the SIFMA numbers. For example, the funds don't include municipal bonds or money markets. SIFMA does,...

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Note: For the bond indexes, I used the market-value numbers rather than the par-value numbers. Hmmm, thinking about it, I wonder if Par Value wouldn't be a better number to use. Especially since the bonds aren't going to be sold now at their market values, but rather held long-term until maturity a...

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I looked up the indexes mentioned by Sharpe in the video. CRSP US Total Market Index Market cap: $24,541,947 million FTSE Global All-Cap minus US Market cap: $21,356,625 million Note: The FTSE Global All-Cap index (the index followed by Vanguard's Total World Stock Index fund) actually shows the glo...

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Sharpe's "World Bond/Stock Index" that he is wishing for actually exists. It's the MSCI Global Capital Markets Index. There were even rumors about ten years ago that someone might start a fund based on the index. Still waiting. Unfortunately, MSCI took the index in-house in 2006 and so the...

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Google Finance takes the latest quarterly dividend and multiplies it by 4. The accuracy of this method assumes that each quarterly dividend will be the same. They aren't, and so the Google number isn't too accurate. In fact, if you look at the Vanguard dividend page for VT , you'll see that last yea...

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As a general comment from a long-time Apache user (not sure about Wordpress, it's been a few years), it's a common misconception that user authentication should always be done in .htaccess files. However, in general and according to the Apache manual, you should only use .htaccess files when you don...

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I've always been partial to the RMD method where the withdrawal percentage is essentially 1/life expectancy. It has the disadvantage that withdrawals are a lower percentage early on (especially if you retire very early), but at the same time, taking less early on is psychologically comforting that y...

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Just for fun, I went down that rabbit hole many years ago and stayed because I liked it. That is, I have no GUI even installed on my machine. No desktop environment like GNOME or KDE, but just a window manager. Specifically, Ratpoison, which is awesome because it is keyboard only, no mouse input ava...

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Check out the chart in this article: https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor ... ds-of-war/

It kind of looks like war isn't necessarily bad news for stock returns. During World War II, large-cap stocks 16.9% and small-cap 32.8%. Those are big numbers. Korean War, Vietnam, Gulf War all positive returns.

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A new Vanguard message about VTWSX came out today: As of 02/24/2017, the expense ratio on Vanguard Total World Stock Index Investor Shares has changed from 0.25% to 0.21%. Not quite as good as an announcement about Admiral shares would be, but you gotta love the downward trend. Wasn't it 0.50 when i...

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...I am upset about it is fraud in the instance of a lost or stolen card. When the charge is run as a CREDIT, and the card has been stolen, we get the funds back due to an unauthorized transaction rather easily. However, when the vendor decides to change the transaction to run as a pinless debit (a...

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Is there an error in labeling the very first graph in this article? Under Bogle's model portfolio, the blue color is labeled as "US Treasury Bond Funds". Bogle has never advocated treasuries only in his model portfolios as far as I know. In the article, it gives an example fund as Vanguar...

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It's on the 'Portfolio & Management' tab on the Vanguard site:
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/ ... =INT#tab=2

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They also now have Plus, Premium, and Advisor Network levels, all of which give you some contact with a Certified Financial Planner (CFP). Maybe they are thinking that people like the human touch more than they originally thought.

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I actually use Emacs all of the time, since my entire operating system is built around it. My window manager is Ratpoison , which is all keyboard driven Emacs keystrokes. My web browser is Conkeror , which is all keyboard driven Emacs keystrokes (although, I added Vi/m J and K up/down commands to th...

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Just buy the two funds separately. Total Stock Index Admiral (VTSAX) 40% Total Bond Index Admiral (VBTLX) 60% The advantage of a combined balanced fund is that it does the rebalancing for you, but that's not too hard to do with two funds. When you make withdrawals, just withdraw from whichever fund ...

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You should check out the book Unconventional Success by David Swensen (who runs the endowment fund for Yale University).
He gives some reasons why Treasury bonds should be considered a 'core' asset class, while corporate bonds are 'non-core'.

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You don't transfer it from your bank, you give Vanguard your account info and let them pull it via ACH. Thanks for the help. Are there limits to the transfer If I do it on the Vanguard site? Please explain "pull it via ACH" ?? Thanks again. Under your account online, go to the 'Account Ma...

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You don't transfer it from your bank, you give Vanguard your account info and let them pull it via ACH.

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So you need to use your credit cards and put that debit card away except for special emergencies. Credit cards are insured. Debit cards are not. Let's not spread disinformation here. According to the law, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA), Electronic Fund Transfers (Regulation E) Section 100...

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Currently, the organization is looking for volunteers. So far, there aren't any. That is a great summation of how I was able to retire at 42: I always volunteered. The results over the years were fabulous for me. I never worried about job security, as I got to be relied upon so much that layoffs ne...

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This is a very interesting speech for anyone interested in Graham.
Unfortunately, since Jason Zweig updated his website, the link in the original post no longer works.
Here is an updated link: A REDISCOVERED MASTERPIECE BY BENJAMIN GRAHAM.

CyberBob

The ETF is 0.14 and the fund is 0.25. The fund has always been more since there aren't any Admiral shares yet.

But looking at the numbers from the semi-annual report, it looks like the expenses are soon to drop to 0.23 for the fund and 0.11 for the ETF.

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...most brick and mortar banks I know, e.g. Wells Fargo, Chase, and Bank America, combine banking, savings, checking and credit card on the same web portal. Does anyone know why the online banks are different? Because they aren't actually the issuing Bank. For example, the Ally card, even though it...

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