Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Aug 20, 2025 6:49 am I remember when you were the Hal in 2001. Guess I’m old too!
…Your friend, Dave


…Mountaineer

You figured out I am an AI bot!!

It's good to see that some of the forum members are still alive. It had been 6 days of darkness. How about the rest of you? Are you still on the bright side of the grass? ;) Hi Mountaineer, All good "down under". Spring will be here in a week so some more travel is likely. Still quite imp...

Enjoy!

Richard Werner explains concept and Alasdair Macleod explains in detail.
(and no, it's not an end of the world talk and we shall all be eating dogfood )

Following from BoglerDudes comment...

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Individ ... _bond_fund

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:51 pm What size TV are you guys rocking at home? Was it a good purchase?

Heh Heh, Had to reply. Gave this to a friend so he could listen to his record collection. Was my parents TV & Radiogram! Still working in 2025

https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/400989

Way back, if my memory is correct, there was a British forum member called Clive. I believe he advocated holding a 50% long term bond allocation in a bond ladder. Each year a bond would mature and you would purchase another 30 year bond. It would appear that ensured you never sold a bond at a loss a...

Have also been watching this series. Very professional. Suggest watching the Malaya series from the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/@theprinciplesofwar/videos

Reminds me more of Marc Fabers portfolio.... <snip> Earlier, we saw that he advised investors to allocate their portfolios with equal percentages in various asset classes like the equity market, the bond market (BND), real estate, and precious metals (GLD) (RING). https://marketrealist.com/2017/08/w...

Let HB answer your queries
Spent hours listening to these on a long interstate trip couple of days ago. Highly recommended.

https://www.youtube.com/@harrybrownearchives5823/videos

🔍 I’d really like to hear how others using the Permanent Portfolio are handling this. Do you adjust your rebalancing strategy to reduce the tax hit? 📬 Looking forward to hearing your thoughts. 1. Funds are in a Superannuation Account (Retirement Savings Plan) 2. Use a Vanguard Ready Made ETF (VDCO)...

I suspect you will find this interview from a few years back helpful... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4_U6bS-cU4 From my perspective, and it is just my opinion, I see Gold as capital and the other three PP holdings as investments. The key point being, there is always a risk the value of your inve...

Just out of curiosity, back tested US PP against an international version. (VASIX/GLD)
Note that Gold/Shares/Cash&Bonds are 17%/17%/66% in both versions so allocations match (still within PP rebalance bands)

Seems similar for last 10 years using free version of Portfolio Visualiser.

Portfolio Charts is your friend!

Ah. I’ve actually heard a few episodes of ‘Have Gun Will Travel’ on a cassette of old radio shows (already old shows when I was a kid). I don’t remember the ‘Case of’ part The name of the show was "Have Gun, Will Travel". I interpreted that to mean if he had his gun he'd travel. You may w...

Option 2: Permanent Portfolio Global ✅ Maximum diversification (geographic + currency) ✅ Broader exposure beyond US/Europe ⚠️ Hard to find global long-term bond ETFs that fit the classic PP idea ⚠️ Higher complexity and potentially more costly to rebalance Easy to do if you wish. Get a LifeStrategy...

The true explanation!

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8qGOe2K0o

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzP87HVCWw

While I cannot comment on the US PP performance, I am "very" pleased how the PP has done in Australia. If I just had the Vanguard conservative etf (VDCO) and not 25% Gold....well the chart says it all. Perhaps some other forum members from various countries could post their results? Nothin...

Well if nothing else, I am thankful Trump has inspired me to read Bastiat. ;D <snip> There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty and property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world wher...

Well, here's an interesting thread over on BogleHeads regarding rebalancing. Mathjack will be happy as Kitces gets a mention. This is the link that referenced his paper => https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.udel.edu/dist/a/855/files/2020/08/Rebalancing-Strategies.pdf and the BH link https://www.bog...

FWIW...

Found this link to many gold/silver charts => https://www.monetary-metals.com/data-science-charts/
Does anyone actually successfully use any of these?

I'm in the US, and I don't invest internationally because foreign investors are treated differently. However, if I lived in a country w/ a smaller stock market, I would probably invest internationally. For any Non-US folk, this site may be useful... https://passiveinvestingaustralia.com/personalisi...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:06 pm How is it February already?? The year just started. Fack.

How is it February 2025 already?? The year Decade just started. Fack

Fixed it for you

Thanks PointedStick,

I suspect your post has made many non residents much happier about their US domiciled PP !

Enjoy! https://passiveinvestingaustralia.com PS: Non US citizens setting up a US based PP..... <snip> Unfortunately, the US has draconian estate tax (death tax) laws for non-Americans. For countries without a tax-treaty agreement, the threshold is $60,000. Above the limit of your country, the US wil...

Following BelangP over on Reddit