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| zerolikedis |
 Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:17 am Post subject: ok What mutual funds? |
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What funds are you investing in??
Large Growth?
Large value?
Medium blend?
Medium Growth?
Small Growth?
Small value?? |
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| stockmarkettips |
| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: |
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| How about small cap mutual funds, they look attractive to me now. |
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| remotivator |
| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| How about some of these foreign indices? Everything I look at seems to be going up like the space shuttle high double or even triple digits. It's starting to make me wonder why I anyone would go with some blah-zay, 8%-gainer American fund when you can go with some Canadian growth fund doing 28 or 46. |
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| poornewb |
| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| Mainly large growth with 20% in international, but I do have 20 to 30 years to go. |
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| mkheifetz |
| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Even though I am a beginner, the best is the plain boring old index fund, especially if you buy it from Vanguard, copying the S&P 500. |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| remotivator wrote: | | How about some of these foreign indices? Everything I look at seems to be going up like the space shuttle high double or even triple digits. It's starting to make me wonder why I anyone would go with some blah-zay, 8%-gainer American fund when you can go with some Canadian growth fund doing 28 or 46. |
Foreign markets are much more volatile than American ones, and some of them (Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America) don't exactly have a strong tradition of protecting investors' capital. The attitude that you can only win with foreign funds and American ones are condemned to mediocrity will get you burned.
Canadian exchanges are notorious for their loose listing requirements. |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| mkheifetz wrote: | | Even though I am a beginner, the best is the plain boring old index fund, especially if you buy it from Vanguard, copying the S&P 500. |
If you are a beginner, then I would definitely advise putting a fairly large chunk of your portfolio into a low-expense index account. Vanguard should leave you less than 20 basis points off the market index. Once you become more experienced, it is reasonable to expect that you can beat the market by a few percentage points each year, which can really add up over time.
I wrote an article about starting to invest in stocks for real, if you read it, it would make me feel good. Until then, practice up in the simulator here. 
http://www.einvesting.com/viewtopic.php?t=1804 |
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| efflandt |
| Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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My Principal 401k in order of 2005 performance (4% YTD 2006):
Int'l Small Co. (widely diversified, 18% 10 yr ave.)
Int'l Growth (relatively new, 27.7% 3 yr ave.)
U.S. Property (owns commercial property/apartments, 10.3% 10 yr, more stable than bonds)
Med Co Value (10% 10yr)
Small Co Value (12.5% 10 yr)
Med Co Blend (11.75% 10 yr)
These all beat our Large Co. Index fund (similar to S&P 500) and seem the best short and long term mix of our 30 available options.
I also started self directing about 10% of my retirement funds (IRA/Roth IRA) to learn investing before a large 5 yr IRA CD expires in a few months.
As far as those runaway foreign ETF's, I don't know if they are going to pull back like last year for a summer buy opportunity, or just keep on going. I found a list of 10 of them which together gained 20% in 2005. One I bought with e$ Monday was up 3% closing Tuesday, slipped 0.43% today, but gained 4.55% after hours. |
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