A Review of Bernstein's No Brainer and Smart Money Portfolios [View article]
Add TLT to the Bernstein portfolio, and use the tactical strategy described here ( http://seekingalpha.co... ), and you improve the performance with only quarterly updates:
S&P 500 (SPY) futures slip 0.3% and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) -0.3% as global markets continue to sell off. Europe's down less than 1%, but the real damage was in Asia, with the Nikkei off 6.4%, Shangahi down 2.8%, and the Hang Seng -2.2%. U.S. Treasury yields helpfully back up a bit, the 10-year off 5 bps to 2.18%. TLT +0.9% premarket. [View news story]
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
Not making as much money as is possible by methods that do not focus on dividend growth as the primary criterion?
But as one comment above suggests, you guys don't seem to be interested in maximizing profits (actually you do not seem to believe that the profits are real). Like a good Buddhist you want to just have 'enough'. That's why I mentioned that in my world religion and investing do not mix.
Do Performance Comparisons To S&P 500 Matter To Dividend Growth Investors? [View article]
You have done quite well. Congratulations.
I evaluate strategies on the basis of the performance of the alternatives that are readily available without any effort. A simple way to do so is to go to Monrningstar Fund Selector page and find the number of Five Star funds with average risk or less that beat all of the YTD, One Year, Three Year, Five Year and Ten Year (using all of these eliminates one trick wonders) annualized returns of what you are trying to evaluate. If the number of such funds is large, the strategy is not worth the effort. Ideally you want no more than a handful of funds to beat your returns. Sometimes even the funds that beat your returns may not be as good as your strategy because, for instance, their drawdowns may be much larger.
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
As I said, if you want to mix up religion with investing, good for you. I would rather discuss religion somewhere else. I would not look for peace of mind via investing.
I have also seen some strategies of investing based on astrology.
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
Good for you, if you are willing to pay the opportunity costs of being wedded to a specific ideology of investing - that is in case you are able to discern what those costs are, and are not blinded by shiny objects.
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
If you monitor them there is no problem. Just as you monitor DG stocks. Even my SPY (in 2006/1/18 thru 2008/1/9, 2009/7/13 thru 2011/8/9, 2012/1/11 to-date, TLT otherwise) position has more than doubled (156% total return) since 2006. You just need to know when to get in and get out. Since June 2008, my SPY position has done (much) better then the portfolio of the top guru of the DG investors on SA.
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
I just buy growth stocks and monitor them, and sell them when they are not growing. Somehow in every scenario I can conceive of, my portfolio continues to grow.
A Review of Bernstein's No Brainer and Smart Money Portfolios [View article]
YTD 5.4%
1 Year: 17.4%
3 Years: 13.8%
5 Years: 10.36%
Do Performance Comparisons To S&P 500 Matter To Dividend Growth Investors? [View article]
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
If your goal is different, all glory to you. Go for it.
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
Whatever you want to get you will get it in the end.
S&P 500 (SPY) futures slip 0.3% and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) -0.3% as global markets continue to sell off. Europe's down less than 1%, but the real damage was in Asia, with the Nikkei off 6.4%, Shangahi down 2.8%, and the Hang Seng -2.2%. U.S. Treasury yields helpfully back up a bit, the 10-year off 5 bps to 2.18%. TLT +0.9% premarket. [View news story]
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
But as one comment above suggests, you guys don't seem to be interested in maximizing profits (actually you do not seem to believe that the profits are real). Like a good Buddhist you want to just have 'enough'. That's why I mentioned that in my world religion and investing do not mix.
Do Performance Comparisons To S&P 500 Matter To Dividend Growth Investors? [View article]
I evaluate strategies on the basis of the performance of the alternatives that are readily available without any effort. A simple way to do so is to go to Monrningstar Fund Selector page and find the number of Five Star funds with average risk or less that beat all of the YTD, One Year, Three Year, Five Year and Ten Year (using all of these eliminates one trick wonders) annualized returns of what you are trying to evaluate. If the number of such funds is large, the strategy is not worth the effort. Ideally you want no more than a handful of funds to beat your returns. Sometimes even the funds that beat your returns may not be as good as your strategy because, for instance, their drawdowns may be much larger.
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
I have also seen some strategies of investing based on astrology.
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]
I did just fine. thank you.
Bill Gross's Dreadful Analysis Of The U.S. Economy's 'Wounded Heart' [View article]
This is a good niche that Mr. Kostohryz has created for himself on SA.
Bill Gross's Dreadful Analysis Of The U.S. Economy's 'Wounded Heart' [View article]
Dividend Growth Investing And DRIPs Work Under All Conditions [View article]