By: doriantaylor
Actually I crafted that term deliberately to account for businesses that could conceivably be something other than ad-supported content sites (Mint immediately springs to mind), but in practice yes...
View ArticleBy: MarkWolfinger
Portfolios can be protected by adopting simple options strategies. Limiting profits and losses is a sound, intelligent method for achieving financial goals – even when markets fail to rise.
View ArticleBy: mkenney
That “datacenters are expensive” caveat to Dorian Taylor’s theory may no longer even apply when a company like Foursquare can get well on there way and still just rent a handful of virtual servers in...
View ArticleBy: doriantaylor
Yeah, and even if you did it the “old-fashioned” way, it’s a bit reaching to compare scaling computational capacity to say, manufacturing capacity.
View ArticleBy: TFF
“But in reality if you turned 65 in 2009 with a “balanced portfolio” you got hosed [technical term].” Nonsense! If you turned 65 in 2009, then you probably started saving around 1970. You slogged...
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MarkWolfinger, I’ve given a ton of thought to this question… My youngest child is just entering school, and I’m tentatively targeting retirement when he graduates from college. Call it 20 years. At...
View ArticleBy: maynardGkeynes
The short answer to Duy’s question should be TIPS.* But since Duy of all people would know that, I wonder what he/she is actually asking. *How many small “investors” can really expect to do better than...
View ArticleBy: framed
Kinda late to this, but my concerns involve adverse selection rather than portfolio selection. Which stocks will be traded publicly, which will be traded privately, and who makes the decision? Will...
View ArticleBy: TFF
maynardGkeynes, if true that will be a pretty serious disappointment to those hoping for 5% real returns (the conventional investment advice). That aside, I see two potential problems with TIPS. First,...
View ArticleBy: maynardGkeynes
@TFF: TIPS probably don’t capture the true inflation, but if so, neither does anything else. For example, the BLS CPI deflator is probably used to estimate the 5% real return figure you mentioned. Same...
View ArticleBy: TFF
no-load != no-expense An expense ratio of 0.5% annually eats a quarter of the real returns, stretching the “doubling period” from 35 to 47 years. Alternatively, if held for 30 years it amounts to a 15%...
View ArticleBy: AmicusAlso
I would hotly contest that there are too many choices or even sufficient choices in most company sponsored 401(k) plans. The industry has resisted “open brokerage window” for a _long_ time. It would be...
View ArticleBy: AmicusAlso
“precisely because there are too few of them” s/b “…too many of them”. D’oh!
View ArticleBy: guanix
@AmicusAlso: Here’s a chart of the ratio of public companies to all US firms: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~gyang/charts /SGPlot94.png The total number of firms in the US has increased every year since...
View ArticleBy: y2kurtus
I make my living managing money for other people and I’ll still be the first one to advocate that any college/vocationalschool educated adult can and should take a keen interest in managing their...
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