Hello all,

just to know what is in your opinion the 2 best ETFs to have in the PP for stocks.

Thank you for giving me your opinion.

Hello

What is the most solid broker in US and EU?

In america i found IB and TDameritrade, in Europe dont know.

Regards

Hello I now understand more about PP and your minds, which i agree. What is for you, the limit of money that you want to reach in a PP or overall in savings. This means, when will you start to put money in other stuff a part from investments. Saving for investment has no limit? Let me know your aims...

Hi, I think you are right. Just puting all the saving is a PP, that has fluctuation, is VERY difficult. Going all CD's to PP+VP+CD it is hard for my mind, but I think I will do like that. Even in the broker applied in Assets, the money is not safe? Thank you!!! Hello, After so many years saving only...

Hello,

After so many years saving only for CDs it is VERY diffcult to put 75% of it in a PP here in Europe 

Any comments to inspire me?

Just another fantastic answer.

k9 to president!

Frugal, are you able to buy gold coins (Austrian Philharmonic, American Eagle, Canadian Maple Leaf, etc.) at Portuguese banks? Hi, I'll check what they sell. What do you recommend? I'm not very happy to buy over internet and pay before seeing the gold. :-\ If I lived in Portugal, based on my curren...

Hi, our friend k9 suggested http://www.coininvestdirect.com Can you please give me more places to buy from europe? Thank you very much. I thought they sold it over the counter at many banks in Switzerland and Austria. MediumTex, it is an honnor to receive you here. Well, strangely for me it is more...

Hi,

our friend k9 suggested http://www.coininvestdirect.com

Can you please give me more places to buy from europe?

Thank you very much.

k9, fantastic explanations! a) Well, Portugal ever had higher yields than richer countries, we are used to it. Now we are being helped by IMF and BCE.     In this case the cash should be where? ALL in a foreign country, is it safe? b) You all PP lovers, make 80-90% allocation in US-PP of your total ...

Here's what I meant.  ETF - Fund Provider VTI - Vanguard TLT - iShares SGOL - ETFS SCHO - Schwab That's 4 asset classes managed by 4 separate companies. Yes, an ETF has more risk than directly holding the assets but by dividing your money across multiple ETF providers you help minimize your exposur...

The problem in the text you quoted is that you now converted it back to a purely financial portfolio (stocks + REITs + bonds) :) As for 4% CDs : the problem is that CDs are not the safest asset ; they are a (relatively low) risk bond between you and the bank. In a tight-money recession, if the bank...

I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about commercial websites here, so moderators please warn me if what I'm doing is wrong, but coininvestdirect (google will give you their precise url) sells bullion coins in Europe at rather good prices (20 francs Vreneli : buy 254, sell 269, + shipping of course...

IF, in this hypothetical world, the financial strategies I think you're talking about (holding government bonds, fiat currencies, etc etc the whole doomsday platter) "goes to hell" or whatever, the only INVESTMENT that would make sense, to me, is something that functions as currency.  So ...

I see.

Thanks Greg.

HELLO!

what is the best US broker to open account for PP creation ?

I live in eurozone, do you think it is a bad idea? I am trying to diversify also, but if any problem occurs with the US broker, i will have difficult to handle, being so far.

Please let me know your opinion.

Hi,

Do you have any place online to speak in realtime?


If you use messenger please send me a Private message.

Tks

Hello,

100% of your savings are in PP and VP?

What assets you have on VP?

IF, in this hypothetical world, the financial strategies I think you're talking about (holding government bonds, fiat currencies, etc etc the whole doomsday platter) "goes to hell" or whatever, the only INVESTMENT that would make sense, to me, is something that functions as currency.  So ...

Hello everyone! I've been studying these lazy strategies but I found that we are too much exposed to the Financial MARKET. This means that one day if anything bad happens to the financial World we will be in bad situation. What REAL assets can we invest? Real stuff, land, timber, silver, gas, etc Pl...

Why do you say you can't own gold directly ? I guess in Portugal 20 Francs coins or British Sovereigns are easy to buy / sell, right ? Hello, That has a big spread and higher cost, to buy real gold coins!? Where do you think i can buy that? Tks :) 20 Francs Francais -Marianne, Rooster, Ouro 291,08 ...

clacy wrote: frugal,

If I'm not mistaken you are European.  I believe that many ETF's in Europe are synthetically constructed, which is important to consider as these would be much more dangerous, IMO.

Hi,

Why? And what is the solution for a european citizen.

Regards

Perfect, now i understand. Thank you Tarentola. Help me here again, VP can have: - comodities like silver, anymore with the same behaviour that you explained, no currency risk - bonds, which ones? - reits from all world - emerging markets - land? - house? ?... I am sure there are others here better ...

Good stuff. I like TDAmeritrade because of their wide assortment of PP-friendly commission-free ETFs (VTI, IVV, TLT, EDV, SHY). They charge $10 for other trades, though. eTrade is nice too because through then you can trade PERM commission-free. Hi, when you trade PP funds instead of each asset ind...

Hello, 1st - GOLD and BONDS directly is perfect. Unfortunately for the EU-PP I don't think I can. 2nd - what do you think about opening an account in INTERACTIVE BROKERS for the VARIABLE Portfolio ? Do you think it is safe for a foreign citizen? If any problem exists (broker banrupcy or State proble...