Dividend Stocks Are Not Bond Proxies [View article]
Bell Atlantic bought (merged with?) GTE back in the early or mid 1990s. Wow, haven't thought about that one in a while. I owned GTE back then for clients when I was a retail broker.
Why It's Hard To Get Yield Just Using ETFs [View article]
Exactly, that is what turned out to be the incorrect chart that i found when i first compared the two. I posted it as a warning of sorts that the Yahoo charts can appear to be incorrect. It was Brad comment I was referring to when I said someone noted a 96% correlation. Similar to Brad's follow up comment above a reader on my blog noted that changing the dates slightly might help with the problem Yahoo has.
Dividend Stocks Are Not Bond Proxies [View article]
Married for 63 years? To say that is awesome would be going far enough.
You said you've owned Verizon since 1972 so obviously you had the original AT&T. What did you do with the other Baby Bell stocks? If you don't still own them then that implies some active decision making.
Any type of strategy *can* work for anyone. If you own no bonds and feel your strategy has been successful and met your needs (not second guessing, simply pointing out a question that people need to answer for themselves) then it has been right for you. Conversely there will be people who have been successful and met their needs using just bonds.
To the extent you wish to stay engaged with markets (if you are reading this site then you probably plan to continue to engage) then part of the work would be some sort of forward looking study to maintain a basis for expecting what you have done to continue to work.
'Beating The Market' Makes For An Incomplete Discussion [View article]
You say that there was no gain from 2000-2011. In that period VINEX and SPY were both negative. What sort of result would you expect from the equities you buy (funds or otherwise) when the market is down? The funds available to you may indeed have been terrible but it is not realistic to think you will be up 20% in a down 20% world.
Action To Take In Your Portfolio In Today's Market [View article]
For a couple of years before the bear market I said these are the things I am looking out for--they in in the third to last paragraph, but I forgot to include the 2% rule which is also something I have been writing about for a while.
I think the following link is the first real warning and you will note it is dated December 2007. http://bit.ly/nO0R5D
Further, the blog post which you have commented on describes much of what I was writing about in 2007 and 2008, not sure how you missed that entire thread (I take from your comment that you did not follow this thread).
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
As Red Sox announcer Jerry Remy would say, every day is a good day for ice cream:-)
'Beating The Market' Makes For An Incomplete Discussion [View article]
Dividend Stocks Are Not Bond Proxies [View article]
Why It's Hard To Get Yield Just Using ETFs [View article]
'Beating The Market' Makes For An Incomplete Discussion [View article]
Depends on the five year period.
Dividend Stocks Are Not Bond Proxies [View article]
Dividend Stocks Are Not Bond Proxies [View article]
You said you've owned Verizon since 1972 so obviously you had the original AT&T. What did you do with the other Baby Bell stocks? If you don't still own them then that implies some active decision making.
Any type of strategy *can* work for anyone. If you own no bonds and feel your strategy has been successful and met your needs (not second guessing, simply pointing out a question that people need to answer for themselves) then it has been right for you. Conversely there will be people who have been successful and met their needs using just bonds.
To the extent you wish to stay engaged with markets (if you are reading this site then you probably plan to continue to engage) then part of the work would be some sort of forward looking study to maintain a basis for expecting what you have done to continue to work.
Dividend Stocks Are Not Bond Proxies [View article]
My Analysis Of The CNBC.com ETF Portfolio [View article]
My Analysis Of The CNBC.com ETF Portfolio [View article]
'Beating The Market' Makes For An Incomplete Discussion [View article]
So there is an education issue here. An active manager (professional or otherwise) is not going to be up 20% in a down 20% world.
'Beating The Market' Makes For An Incomplete Discussion [View article]
Counterfeit Rally? [View article]
Counterfeit Rally? [View article]
Action To Take In Your Portfolio In Today's Market [View article]
I think the following link is the first real warning and you will note it is dated December 2007. http://bit.ly/nO0R5D
Further, the blog post which you have commented on describes much of what I was writing about in 2007 and 2008, not sure how you missed that entire thread (I take from your comment that you did not follow this thread).