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buying corporate bonds

It looks like there are 10-year corporate bonds being offered at around 4.5 - 5% by banks such as Goldman Sachs and Ban...
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posted by ghanwani
1 comments posted 15yrs posted by ghanwani

Graham selection of bonds

I am from India. We do not have much of a bond market here. Most of the bonds are issued by the public sector (Govt own...
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posted by rj
1 comments posted 15yrs posted by rj

The next time you meet a banker ...

In the ongoing saga of how banks view the world, this article on Bloomberg today caught my attention. There is a very g...
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posted by GeorgeCFL
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by GeorgeCFL

Automatic IRAs proposed in Congress

>From an article on OnWallStreet.com: Congressman Richard Neal, D-Mass., has introduced legislation that would allow co...
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posted by BreadWithSpam
18 comments posted 15yrs posted by BreadWithSpam

Why do I have to borrow my own equity?

I'm almost sure this is a stupid question, but it seems like if I paid that portion of my mortgage (my equity), that po...
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posted by roger
11 comments posted 15yrs posted by roger

Advice on Non-US Dollar Investing?

I think it would be wise to put some of the nest egg into accounts overseas, for example Switzerland and Australia, to...
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posted by yadda
18 comments posted 15yrs posted by yadda

Black Swan

Just in case, I'm not making light of your inquiries. Understanding your investments is a basic principle. When one tri...
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posted by kkiesgen
1 comments posted 15yrs posted by kkiesgen

NY Times Discussion of 401(k) Fees

See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/your-money/401ks-and-similar-plans/24money.html A New York Times letter-to-the-ed...
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posted by honda.lioness
1 comments posted 15yrs posted by honda.lioness

Index funds

I am not in the US. Index funds are very new in my country & the index fund market isn't very mature & there isn't so m...
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posted by rj
10 comments posted 15yrs posted by rj

Medicare Supplement Plans

Hi, About how much should we allocate for a Medicare supplement plan? We are doing some planning for when my wife retir...
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posted by abbybrown
17 comments posted 15yrs posted by abbybrown

Brief note for HC reference

Just a link describing health care reform, to show government's plan (for you). It contains political bias against (don...
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posted by GeorgeCFL
0 comments posted 15yrs posted by GeorgeCFL

Company Alerts?

Needing more income, I have just invested in a market basket of the stocks of 17 large well-known American companies, s...
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posted by gary_w1
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Mutual fund fee changes...

Not mentioned here yet. I'm not American and I dunno how the fee structures work there but their regulator is proposing...
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posted by yup
1 comments posted 16yrs posted by yup

Black Swan Insurance?

Any comments on the new retail oriented funds that are being set up for this? Pimco says it can implement a 15% loss pe...
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posted by dumbstruc
12 comments posted 16yrs posted by dumbstruc