Personal Investments • Fallen Angels or BB Corporate
Do Fallen Angels have a special attractiveness because at one point they were investment grade, or one should look at them like a high yield bond, most likely BB. I remember Swedroe saying somewhere...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: Can't swim after 4 lessons at Y. Am I a bad...
I can relate to this, can swim and enjoy it. Except doing laps for exercise - tell me to go back and forth in a line and I flounder. I can't even turn my head well enough to breathe while doing the...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: Can I Deposit 6k In Cash Without IRS...
A post responding to a subsequently removed comment has also been removed.Statistics: Posted by ClaycordJCA — Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:51 am
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Re: VTIAX expense increase: why?
Interestingly, this increase is not reflected in VT/VTWAX, meaning the commonly cited expense ratio argument for holding VTSAX+VTIAX over VTWAX (VT) is a bit weaker.Statistics: Posted by Claudia...
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Investing - Theory, News & General • Re: International (Non-US) versus US...
Volatility is not probability. I believe they use std deviation of the price history in the equation above. This is a deterministic quantity. Probability on the other hand is likelihood of something...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Re: Fallen Angels or BB Corporate
There may be funds that specialize in this, have not looked. In the recent past I owned USHY index fund that held a broader universe of high yield bonds. But credit spreads have narrowed to the point...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Re: To What Extent Do You Subsidize Adult...
What is interesting is that financial education was lacking. My dad was quite frugal on the day-to-day but willing to spend on bigger things like vacations, which I think is a good way to go. But they...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Re: HVAC maintenance contract still worth it?
I am generally not interested in any maintenance contracts but this is my one exception. Have had a furnace repaired same day at 6-7pm in winter “because i am a contract customer”. Otherwise you wait...
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