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by hedgehog
Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:38 am
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Site suggestion: putting together the radio show archive site
Replies: 0
Views: 1728

Site suggestion: putting together the radio show archive site

The shows without descriptions: https://web.archive.org/web/20160324133 ... wne/radio/

The descriptions without working download links: http://www.harrybrowne.org/Archives/Arc ... stment.htm

Would make sense to merge them into one working whole. Thanks
by hedgehog
Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:45 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Basic Question: Dividends/Interest for ETFs and Index Funds?
Replies: 6
Views: 5035

Re: Basic Question: Dividends/Interest for ETFs and Index Funds?

Thank you for your answers, which may not answer my question. :( Could you see my original question again? I think I was quite clear what I asked. I re-read it. That is; I am not asking about taxes for aliens and brokerage recommendations; see the highlighted part. Thank you. [Not my main question ...
by hedgehog
Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:35 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Basic Question: Dividends/Interest for ETFs and Index Funds?
Replies: 6
Views: 5035

Re: Basic Question: Dividends/Interest for ETFs and Index Funds?

Thank you for your answers, which may not answer my question. :( Could you see my original question again? I think I was quite clear what I asked. I re-read it. That is; I am not asking about taxes for aliens and brokerage recommendations; see the highlighted part. Thank you. [Not my main question h...
by hedgehog
Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:13 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Basic Question: Dividends/Interest for ETFs and Index Funds?
Replies: 6
Views: 5035

Basic Question: Dividends/Interest for ETFs and Index Funds?

Disclaimer: I am European, aiming for a US based Portfolio; no home country bias here. For the sake of simplicity consider I am a US-based investor, but for even more simplicity I can or I want to access only ETFs and index funds. The basic function of owning shares in a company, for Warren Buffett ...
by hedgehog
Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:31 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Financial benefit of reading Ben Graham's book knowing Warren Buffett's alpha?
Replies: 5
Views: 4797

Re: Financial benefit of reading Ben Graham's book knowing Warren Buffett's alpha?

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't index funds unavailable in Graham and Buffett's heydays?  If so, generating even an alpha of 0 by buying 10 stocks rather than 500 (from the S&P 500) would be a win in my book. Sure, an interesting historical fact, but now we have index funds... i don't think i g...
by hedgehog
Tue Jul 01, 2014 7:02 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Financial benefit of reading Ben Graham's book knowing Warren Buffett's alpha?
Replies: 5
Views: 4797

Financial benefit of reading Ben Graham's book knowing Warren Buffett's alpha?

Full title: What is the financial benefit of reading Benjamin Graham's classic book, The Intelligent Investor knowing Warren Buffett's alpha? Buffett's alpha according to IFA.tv is not significantly better than buying a dumb index fund or Permanent Portfolio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xztbxCbq...
by hedgehog
Tue Jul 01, 2014 4:52 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: What do you think of Doug Casey? Is he legit?
Replies: 8
Views: 7366

Re: What do you think of Doug Casey? Is he legit?

By funny I mean he (always) prepares to the end of the world (not coming). All his book titles on Amazon are a variation of the title 'Crisis Investing'. "...didn't fade away into irrelevance" OK. How much extra income his speculations made for you compared to a 'dumb' Permanent Portfolio or similar?
by hedgehog
Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:25 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Robert Kiyosaki: Save - Invest - Tithe in a 1:1:1 ratio
Replies: 0
Views: 2095

Robert Kiyosaki: Save - Invest - Tithe in a 1:1:1 ratio

Full one hour presentation of maybe what he is all about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlElYCLE14s It's interesting to compare with the general view here you are supposed to have a Permanent and a Variable portfolio probably in a 1:1 ratio but how about the 3rd pillar being present with Kiyosaki:...
by hedgehog
Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:17 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: What do you think of Doug Casey? Is he legit?
Replies: 8
Views: 7366

What do you think of Doug Casey? Is he legit?

A collection of his blog posts: http://www.investorsinsight.com/blogs/c ... fault.aspx

His website looks, well... funny for me.
by hedgehog
Sun Jun 01, 2014 1:13 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: How to Read a Prospectus?
Replies: 2
Views: 2937

Re: How to Read a Prospectus?

Bump.
by hedgehog
Wed May 07, 2014 3:44 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Basic question about stocks, dividends, brokerage accounts and taxes
Replies: 2
Views: 2890

Basic question about stocks, dividends, brokerage accounts and taxes

Say I hold AAPL or any stock at dividend paying time on an ordinary brokerage account. Will the dividends be added as an extra cash balance to the brokerage account?

What are the tax consequences? Can I get a tax break if I do not cash it out but reinvest - in the same AAPL or any other - stock?
by hedgehog
Wed May 07, 2014 3:40 am
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Talmud Portfolio
Replies: 28
Views: 18427

Re: Talmud Portfolio

Bean wrote: “Let every man divide his money into three parts, and invest a third in land, a third in business and a third let him keep by him in reserve.”?
Really interesting.

I wonder how the Bible or Quran portfolio looked like.
by hedgehog
Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:40 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: PP Safe Withdrawal Rate?
Replies: 36
Views: 18828

Re: PP Safe Withdrawal Rate?

I've been wondering about this myself lately.  from http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need-for-retirement/    ..... I found this site: http://www.firecalc.com/index.php Unfortunately, I don't see that you can built a PP as the site didn't include gold historical data :( H...
by hedgehog
Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:26 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: PP Safe Withdrawal Rate?
Replies: 36
Views: 18828

Re: PP Safe Withdrawal Rate?

@EdwardjK

Are you answering to me or to @murphy_p_t ? It is totally not clear.

If you are answering to me. No, I am not concerned, I just asked a simple - and hopefully interesting - question to which your answer is not really an answer ) But thanks.
by hedgehog
Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:20 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: PP Safe Withdrawal Rate?
Replies: 36
Views: 18828

Re: PP Safe Withdrawal Rate?

You may want to discuss elderly care and such further here: http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/permanent-portfolio-discussion/elderly-care-and-alternatives-idecide-org-mydirectives-com/ Back to the topic: I wonder what is your safe withdrawal rate for - You do want your nest egg to last for ever f...
by hedgehog
Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:17 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Elderly care and alternatives - IDecide.org - MyDirectives.com
Replies: 0
Views: 1551

Elderly care and alternatives - IDecide.org - MyDirectives.com

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/permanent-portfolio-discussion/pp-safe-withdrawal-rate/15/ this topic got derailed so why not have the topic'sown thread? What do you think of these? http://idecide.org/ http://www.mydirectives.com/ I am not from such a developed country where you have an actual ...
by hedgehog
Fri Mar 14, 2014 3:42 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Credit Suisse 2012 Year Book With Heavy Inflation Discussion
Replies: 1
Views: 1905

Re: Credit Suisse 2012 Year Book With Heavy Inflation Discussion

Current version of the paper can be found here: https://www.credit-suisse.com/us/en/news-and-expertise/research/credit-suisse-research-institute/publications.html Some help needed reading the charts I am looking at page 38, Australia in the 2014 PDF: - Cumulative real returns from 1900 to 2013 - it ...
by hedgehog
Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:49 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Robin Hood App
Replies: 16
Views: 9001

Re: Robin Hood App

According to http://www.cnbc.com/id/101453072

It is live for early birds. Anyone in?
by hedgehog
Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:37 pm
Forum: Other Discussions
Topic: Investing through ING Sharebuilder
Replies: 27
Views: 13715

Re: Investing through ING Sharebuilder

I am not a US person. I heard ShareBuilder is kind of an innovative service. Can you explain why?
by hedgehog
Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:03 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: What are some good personal finance books esp. considering the UK system?
Replies: 8
Views: 4223

What are some good personal finance books esp. considering the UK system?

Most books have a US orientation and I have heard most of them even if I obviously haven't read all. The same thing over and over. Ramit Sethi has a separate UK version of his book besides the US version. Besides him, what are some recommended books for 1. the UK 2. OK, or in general / the US as wel...
by hedgehog
Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:15 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Non resident aliens and tax on dividends
Replies: 8
Views: 6138

Re: Non resident aliens and tax on dividends

Is an ETF considered a cash dividend in this regard?
by hedgehog
Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:48 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Crawling Road blog post - Permanent Portfolio Performance and Historical Returns
Replies: 12
Views: 9012

Re: Crawling Road blog post - Permanent Portfolio Performance and Historical Returns

Thank you button.
craigr wrote: For me, one of the biggest mistakes an investor can make is assuming the past will repeat into the future.
Ain't it the case that history repeats itself (think wars) if we don't learn from it?
by hedgehog
Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:07 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Fee-Only Advisors - NAPFA - National Association of Personal Financial Advisors?
Replies: 8
Views: 4093

Re: Fee-Only Advisors - NAPFA - National Association of Personal Financial Advisors?

In the interest of full disclosure, I actually thought about setting up an advisory firm in the past. In the interest of full disclosure, I opened the topic/asked the question because similar thoughts have arisen in me as well. I am from Europe. I am thinking of advice for international clients. Ev...
by hedgehog
Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:00 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Crawling Road blog post - Permanent Portfolio Performance and Historical Returns
Replies: 12
Views: 9012

Re: Crawling Road blog post - Permanent Portfolio Performance and Historical Returns

I don't think I put Sharpe/SD in that post. I'm not a fan of Sharpe/SD as they are misleading in terms of actual risk. And mostly I don't talk much about these risk measures because they are rearward looking and sometimes project a false sense of security. Over time the common measures tend to miss...
by hedgehog
Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:38 pm
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Fee-Only Advisors - NAPFA - National Association of Personal Financial Advisors?
Replies: 8
Views: 4093

Re: Fee-Only Advisors - NAPFA - National Association of Personal Financial Advisors?

@Libertarian666
Of course I don't need an adviser. I just had to ask it, OK? ;)

@moda0306
Thanks, very interesting. I kinda share your experience.