Personal Investments • Portfolio Ideas/How am I doing
Your portfolio is a bit messy and really would not align with my personal philosophy. 1) decide on your international equity allocation. If 30% for example then my default equity portfolio would be...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Concerns About SIPC Coverage Limit
typical bankruptcy, over 95% of assets are recovered. This means that 500k coverage in a typical bankruptcy will ensure that nobody ... under $10MM will lose any money.SIPC info on how it works:As an...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • US Nonresident Aliens - Vanguard freezing legacy accounts
Apologies for the long posts.Absolutely none needed. More is better. Thank you for all of this.In short, on the call today and in writing, Vanguard insisted that we can continue to maintain the...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Instant Pots
Chicken Chile Verde - https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-co ... rde-recipeThis is one of my favorite pressure cooking recipes.Outside of that I don't do stews/soups/sauce-heavy cooking often, so I...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • investments for custodial Account
I would do 100% VOO or similar without hesitation. 8 years is a long timeStatistics: Posted by alexbogle — Tue Nov 05, 2024 4:03 am — Replies 3 — Views 162
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Benefits of Quicken in 2024, time to set...
I don't believe I'll ever be able to kick Quicken to the curb. It's helped me more times than I can count. Yes, I'm not happy with it going subscription but if that's what was needed to keep the...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Thoughts on hearing aids
The strongest Costco hearing aids (Phonak) did not improve intelligibility for me so I don’t use them.To survive this problem I found an app (CaptionCall) that converts voice to text on the phone. The...
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Personal Finance (Not Investing) • Expecting twins! Financial (and life)...
Great advice so far ..Especially this>>>>.Oh, and get as much sleep as you can now. Kid's change your dynamic for the rest of your life. Hop on the wave, and ride. (Stay young)I'd...
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Personal Consumer Issues • Looking to install a home EV chargier in Europe...
This is mostly a hobby/project for us rather than something we're doing for economic benefit. But there is a lot of space available for solar which we hope to integrate into the home and EV charging....
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Demented Spouse - Furious at Vanguard
I think you wrote it right. Mom will have control of the money. But that is not the same as depositing it to an account that doesn't have his name on it. Come about this another way and see that there...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Buying Bed For Apartment
Unless someone else is paying or you can fit everything in your car does it make financial sense to move “disposable” IKEA furniture?Statistics: Posted by furwut — Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:39 am — Replies...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Need help with allocation of funds
Didn’t realize you are a Federal employee. I suggest rolling over that Rollover IRA to TSP, and use the C fund, I fund and G fund instead using Duckie’s guidance. Substitute C for FSKAX, I for FTIHX...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • How to invest your portfolio when rolling over a 401K...
... We're meeting with a financial advisor at Wells Fargo,...Wells Fargo is the absolute last place I would go for investment advice. There are many less expensive / better advisory choices, OR, you...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Portfolio review request - late 50's
I hate to suggest doing anything hasty but if you are going to change your asset allocation I would be tempted to do it on Monday before the election on Tuesday just in case that has a big negative...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • I dont understand buybacks. Do you?
The price at which a company buys back shares matters. If a company buys back shares for less than they are worth (their “intrinsic value”) then that purchase is accretive to the value of each...
View ArticleNon-US Investing • U.S. Citizen Moved to Spain > Maintaining...
I have never heard of this rule that you can't be buying MFs or ETFs if you live abroad, even if you're US citizen. Technically, the rule is that US mutual funds can only be sold to US residents. ETFs...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • 50 MILLION PORTFOLIO :)
80% VTI.20% US Treasuries.80% VTI.20% US Treasuries. 100% Rich parentsStatistics: Posted by Chan_va — Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:37 am — Replies 7 — Views 719
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Out of room in tax deferred but still need more bonds...
Currently 24% federal tax bracket plus 4.95% state. Trying to get AA to 65s/35b. What would you buy in taxable?ThanksStatistics: Posted by nassau34 — Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:41 am — Replies 0 — Views 9
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • cross country drive in a 10 year old vehicle,...
What kind of thinking is involved in researching someone's posting history? seems.....odd.I research the posting history of almost every 'new-to me' username I see at bogleheads.org.Especially the...
View ArticleForum Issues and Administration • To the Moderators - Thank You!
I love the no drama format that the mods enforce. This is the first forum I've been on that doesn't have a lot of bomb throwing. Good work.Statistics: Posted by bogles the mind — Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:42...
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