Everything seems to be working on my end. The first thing I would try is just hitting refresh a few times. If that doesn't work, you might try clearing your cookies. If it just started today, it's also possible that it's a regional Microsoft thing that may resolve itself in a few hours. Let me know ...

It was recently brought to my attention that Artemis Capital Management (the firm run by Chris Cole that promoted the Dragon Portfolio) appears to have closed shop. If you go to their website , most of the pages are empty and even the famous "The Allegory of the Hawk and the Serpent" paper...

With regard to the Portfolio Charts fund recommendations, I wouldn't necessarily interpret the Fund Finder as a comprehensive list or even my judgment of what makes a "good" SCV methodology. In order to make sure that the charts set proper expectations, I tend to prioritize funds that shou...

I measured the PP with a real return (including inflation) that was down a little more than 18%. Yes, that's the worst year I have on record since 1970. That may not sound very good until you realize that it was still in the top third of all portfolio options and still quite tame compared to other a...

I got a set of TP-Link Deco units to set up a wifi mesh and it's awesome. Super easy to set up. Highly recommended.

Agree with the general feeling on a Chinese holding company. However, I think the location, local laws in effect and the auditing/auditor is probably more important. If the vault is in the US or UK with a western auditing firm I'm not that concerned. Move the vault to Bejing, use a non-western Euro...

The one thing that hangs me up on IAUM is the trading volume. According to etf.com, the median daily trading volume for IAUM is just $2.7mm. For reference, GLDM trades $48mm per day. Not that I have anywhere near that level of gold, but whenever a reasonable position by a small-time individual inves...

Nice research! I appreciate all the info.

What I like about SGOL is: 1) Its custodian isnt a chinese bank 2) Gold is split between london and switzerland giving some diversity 3) They publish an inventory of bars own, including serial numbers periodically 4) they publish vault inspection reports. GLDM has none of these. SGOL is a good fund...

Vil wrote: ↑Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:26 am You see the enormous impact of posting here... Holy crap.

I guess we now know that there's at least one Fed who is a fan of the Permanent Portfolio.

I don't know how they were able to pick out me, selling my Vanguard/Blackrock funds because of their proxy voting habits, among all the market turmoil but YOU'RE WELCOME EVERYONE. The hero we need. 8) I'm also thankful for this thread for pushing me over the edge to trade out of a few Blackrock fun...

It looks like things are actually moving in the right direction on the voting rights front. Vanguard just announced a pilot program that allows retail investors to have proper voting power with their shares. https://www.etfstream.com/news/vanguard-to-pilot-voting-rights-for-retail-investors-in-chall...

The problem with BlackRock is not that they offer ESG funds for people who care about those things and want to support them with their own money. Just like paying more for organic produce that is fundamentally the same product, people can pay more for ESG funds if they like. To each his own. The dee...

Plenty of gold alternatives out there. Schwab has SGOL which I've used. TLT is the toughest one to replace, probably. GLDM (State Street) is currently the cheapest gold ETF option with a 0.10 ER. For LT treasuries, I really want to like SCHQ (Schwab) because of the very low 0.03 ER. The only thing ...

Are there altenative ETFs that are not into the ESG movement? I've also thought about this, but the trick is finding an alternative that isn't doing something similar. Look past the marketing materials and self-serving platitudes of a guy like Larry Fink, and when you get down to it providers are l...

Well I certainly appreciate you taking the time to politely engage with that often-brilliant but even-more-often-curmudgeonly crowd @ Bogleheads Tyler. Let me know if you ever don't want me to post links to Portfolio Charts articles over there; I fear driving more traffic to your site and turning s...

For anyone who wants to go further down the rabbit hole with TIPS I posted Tyler's blog post on Bogleheads and there's a good bit of discussion there (with Tyler participating). I especially recommend the posts from vineviz, who may be the single most savvy bond expert (among many) on that forum: h...

Tyler, where’s the best place to alert you to typos? I found one at Looking Deeper - Going back to the TIPS mechanics we discussed, if you hold a bond to maturity then you get the full original principal pack Crowdsourced editing FTW. Thanks! But what I didn't fully appreciate until reading your ne...

My contention that there is asymmetric risk in the decision to allocate one's fixed income in nominal bonds, such as TBM, or inflation-linked bonds, such as TIPS. With individual TIPS held to maturity , their real return known with precision at the time of purchase. There is no risk to the future b...

Really? I thought it was the real CAGR for someone who has held the PP for 9 years. I thought that is why there are a lot of negative years in the one and two column, but none when you go far out. Because if you hold the PP for a long time, historically, you always get in the 4-5% real CAGR range. ...

What's your favourite restaurant in the whole world? One of my favorite restaurants in the world was always the Burger King in the Hong Kong airport. It was nothing special on its own. But after spending multiple weeks in mainland China, the opportunity to have a generic American burger with import...

Enlightening. I've read several Harry Browne books and do not remember reading this. Maybe I read it but did not retain the concept. Was this in one of his books? If so, which one? Or is this something he said or wrote elsewhere? That's from "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World". Highl...

FYI -- I published a new post today that reviewed portfolio returns in the first half of 2022, and it included a section on this topic. Halfway to Nowhere: 2022 Mid-Year Portfolio Rankings Be sure to take a look at the "stock sectors" chart in the article and think about what the resulting...

D1984 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:58 pm Does anyone here know if there is there any program (either free or not super expensive) that can do something like the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop

Try Gimp. It's a free, open-source alternative to Photoshop. And it includes a clone tool.

Posted elsewhere by Tyler: https://portfoliocharts.com/2022/05/27/proven-ways-to-protect-your-portfolio-from-inflation/#the-top4-inflation-fighting-portfolios So staying the course with a dependable portfolio is not so much about covering your eyes and ignoring current performance, but about having...