How do you invest the Cash portion?
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Re: How do you invest the Cash portion?
What about the superb Gyroscope, by Dismemberment Plan?
You there, Ephialtes. May you live forever.
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You see, for the longest time I've kind of lamented choosing "Smith1776" as my username.
Because now changing my avatar to any other historical thinker looks incongruous.
If only I could now be Newton1687 haha.
Because now changing my avatar to any other historical thinker looks incongruous.
If only I could now be Newton1687 haha.
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You can have it changed. Greg, who made an appearance here recently, was 1NV3ST0R or something like that once upon a time.
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Hehe, dualstow, I personally think the PP is more like Iron Man than the hulk -- because it's armoured on all sides.
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A bit of water cooler talk here.
Which would you guys consider to be safer for the cash portion of the PP, assuming you could only pick one?
1) A ladder of 1 - 5 year federal government treasuries
2) A fund with 0 - 90 day commercial paper obligations?
Which would you guys consider to be safer for the cash portion of the PP, assuming you could only pick one?
1) A ladder of 1 - 5 year federal government treasuries
2) A fund with 0 - 90 day commercial paper obligations?
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2) because interest rate swings will cause volatility for 1). Cash is zero-ish duration almost by definition.
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When it comes to bonds these things are highly efficient and I have no idea why we try to over analyze them. It just isn't hard if you aren't buying a fund. Your return is the interest coupon +/- the par value discount/premium.
The two options provided are time vs. credit risk...treasuries are categorically safer and the interest will be fixed. Commercial paper is more risky as compared to treasuries and the interest return will float/adjust rather quickly.
If the question truly is safety defined as I get all my principal back with interest, no contest.
If the question is where do you think interest rates are going...Och's guess is as good as anybody else's guess.
The two options provided are time vs. credit risk...treasuries are categorically safer and the interest will be fixed. Commercial paper is more risky as compared to treasuries and the interest return will float/adjust rather quickly.
If the question truly is safety defined as I get all my principal back with interest, no contest.
If the question is where do you think interest rates are going...Och's guess is as good as anybody else's guess.
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Right, it's very interesting to see who prefers what kind of risk.
Myself? Seeing what happened to the Reserve Primary Fund with its commercial paper, I prefer the longer duration federal notes personally.
Myself? Seeing what happened to the Reserve Primary Fund with its commercial paper, I prefer the longer duration federal notes personally.
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what money markets can invest in has changed drastically since the reserve fund failed . i owned that money market too
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That is true.mathjak107 wrote: โMon Sep 09, 2019 4:41 pm what money markets can invest in has changed drastically since the reserve fund failed . i owned that money market too
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Re: How do you invest the Cash portion?
Regarding the below....
1) I Bonds. The limit is $10,000? Plus, if you overpay your taxes by $5,000 you can purchase another $5,000 with your tax refund? Is that what you do?
2) Can you give more description of: "1-3-6 months TBills in auto-roll at Fidelity"
3) Obviously you have no concern regarding FDLXX when I wrote:
"Similarly going to Fidelity I see that the composition of the Fidelityยฎ Treasury Only Money Market Fund (FDLXX) is:
Normally investing at least 99.5% of total assets in cash and U.S. Treasury securities.
In addition, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its assets in U.S. Treasury securities.
Its current composition is:
U.S. Treasury Bills 72.23% (81.33% / 9/10/19) , U.S. Treasury Coupons 28.64% (23.00% / 9/10/19) , and Net Other Assets (0.87%) (-4.33% / 9/10/19)"
4) Not following this what you wrote (primarily what the abbreviations represent): "(whichever has the best interest rate at the moment), ITOT, IJS (I have a Golden Butterfly, not a pure PP) o IAU."
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1) I Bonds. The limit is $10,000? Plus, if you overpay your taxes by $5,000 you can purchase another $5,000 with your tax refund? Is that what you do?
2) Can you give more description of: "1-3-6 months TBills in auto-roll at Fidelity"
3) Obviously you have no concern regarding FDLXX when I wrote:
"Similarly going to Fidelity I see that the composition of the Fidelityยฎ Treasury Only Money Market Fund (FDLXX) is:
Normally investing at least 99.5% of total assets in cash and U.S. Treasury securities.
In addition, the fund normally invests at least 80% of its assets in U.S. Treasury securities.
Its current composition is:
U.S. Treasury Bills 72.23% (81.33% / 9/10/19) , U.S. Treasury Coupons 28.64% (23.00% / 9/10/19) , and Net Other Assets (0.87%) (-4.33% / 9/10/19)"
4) Not following this what you wrote (primarily what the abbreviations represent): "(whichever has the best interest rate at the moment), ITOT, IJS (I have a Golden Butterfly, not a pure PP) o IAU."
Thanks
Vinny
anato wrote: โFri Jul 05, 2019 12:36 am 3 components for me:
1. I Bonds (every year, as many as I can get)
2. 1-3-6 months TBills in auto-roll at Fidelity
3. $10k-ish in a Fidelity cash account, in FDLXX
The dynamic is fairly easy: when the balance in the cash account reaches $11k (and no big expense is on the horizon), that $1k becomes a T-Bill (whichever has the best interest rate at the moment), ITOT, IJS (I have a Golden Butterfly, not a pure PP) o IAU.
Long term treasury bonds are all in the 401k and HSA (CA resident, so I need to avoid paying state taxes on that HSA), I don't keep cash in them except for the $1-2k building up for the next (mostly bond) purchase.
Once a year, I ransack the T-Bills to get as many I Bonds as I can.
Rinse and repeat.
If some big expense is on the horizon (e.g. new car), I just make sure I keep that money ready available in either the cash account or (if not happening in the next month or so) T-Bills, in excess of my target 20% allocation.
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Re: How do you invest the Cash portion?
It seems that if one is a single person (with no trust) then the I Bond limit is $10,000 plus $5,000 via using a tax refund (which would, of course, require one to overpay taxes by at least $5,000)?
Vinny
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boglerdude wrote: โFri Jul 05, 2019 3:27 am Welcome to the forum OP
I use ibonds and Orion's 4% checking
With some effort you can buy more than 10k ibonds or EE bonds each year
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=213142
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What are you defining as "the core"?
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Thank you for the response. And regarding point #2 below. I fully understand that a major component of the Permanent Portfolio is safety with cash, thus the many exhortations to invest strictly in U.S. Treasury securities. I would NOT be tempted to chase cash.
Vinny
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jhogue wrote: โFri Jul 05, 2019 2:57 pm Welcome to the forum.
I think the above suggestions will probably work out just fine for you.
That said, consider the following points:
1. Keep in mind that the purpose of Cash in the PP is to always hold the safest and most liquid asset possible in case one of the three volatile assets exceeds its 35/15 bands and needs to be rebalanced. Cash will smooth out your portfolio returns over time.
2. Investors in the HBPP have discovered that one of the four assets will almost invariably lags the others. Right now, that lagging asset is Cash. That makes it tempting to make the mistake of chasing yields in Cash by trying to substitute higher-yielding securities like unbreakable CDs or intermediate term Treasurys in place of more liquid, shorter-duration Treasurys. Donโt do it.
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Yep, I try to overpay taxes. Then $10k for each one of me, my wife and 2 kids... so plenty of room there. It would mean my additional contributions for the year are north of $200k (never happened )
Just that: I buy TBills at Fidelity, and I select auto-roll, so then they mature Fidelity uses the proceedings to buy more of the same duration.
No concerns, as close as cash I can get without having to bother selling TBills for each and every expense.
They are iShares ETFs, which trade for free at Fidelity
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Just the bulk of holdings. I donโt keep a fixed percent in one or the other. When the auction for 2-yr notes came out earlier this year I jumped on it because the potential rate was 2.75%*.
I like the treasury money market because I can sell notes to the sweep account and then the the next day purchase stocks, gold, bonds or cash. I tend to hold all bills and notes to maturity, although it would be easy enough to sell the if I were in a jam.
*9128285B2 2-year notes. Know that the advertised rate for an auction issue is merely a guideline. You donโt know what youโve got until the auction is done. Thatโs why โ as I said in the response to your pm โ many people prefer the secondary market. I think we have a stickied guideline to buying treasuries, btw.
I like the treasury money market because I can sell notes to the sweep account and then the the next day purchase stocks, gold, bonds or cash. I tend to hold all bills and notes to maturity, although it would be easy enough to sell the if I were in a jam.
*9128285B2 2-year notes. Know that the advertised rate for an auction issue is merely a guideline. You donโt know what youโve got until the auction is done. Thatโs why โ as I said in the response to your pm โ many people prefer the secondary market. I think we have a stickied guideline to buying treasuries, btw.
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I finally got the answer to one question I'd been asking various places. Can one use Treasury Direct within a retirement account? And, the answer was NO.
Therefore, with my belief that income producing investments (such as Cash) should be in retirement accounts that means I would not be able to buy I Bonds for placement in those retirement accounts.
Vinny
Therefore, with my belief that income producing investments (such as Cash) should be in retirement accounts that means I would not be able to buy I Bonds for placement in those retirement accounts.
Vinny
anato wrote: โFri Jul 05, 2019 12:36 am 3 components for me:
1. I Bonds (every year, as many as I can get)
2. 1-3-6 months TBills in auto-roll at Fidelity
3. $10k-ish in a Fidelity cash account, in FDLXX
The dynamic is fairly easy: when the balance in the cash account reaches $11k (and no big expense is on the horizon), that $1k becomes a T-Bill (whichever has the best interest rate at the moment), ITOT, IJS (I have a Golden Butterfly, not a pure PP) o IAU.
Long term treasury bonds are all in the 401k and HSA (CA resident, so I need to avoid paying state taxes on that HSA), I don't keep cash in them except for the $1-2k building up for the next (mostly bond) purchase.
Once a year, I ransack the T-Bills to get as many I Bonds as I can.
Rinse and repeat.
If some big expense is on the horizon (e.g. new car), I just make sure I keep that money ready available in either the cash account or (if not happening in the next month or so) T-Bills, in excess of my target 20% allocation.
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A few questions for you...
1) First the oddball one. How do you get current news to appear under your posts -- even long after you have composed them?
2) I have read here how some people have created automatic ladders in Fidelity. I did call Vanguard (my investment company exclusively) to learn all about buying bills and bonds through them. They did not seem to offer any form of automatic buying? Is that true? You have to manually make your own ladders?
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Vinny
1) First the oddball one. How do you get current news to appear under your posts -- even long after you have composed them?
2) I have read here how some people have created automatic ladders in Fidelity. I did call Vanguard (my investment company exclusively) to learn all about buying bills and bonds through them. They did not seem to offer any form of automatic buying? Is that true? You have to manually make your own ladders?
Thanks
Vinny
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As I just stated, if my belief that an income producing investment such as cash belongs in a retirement account then that eliminates any I bonds as Treasury Direct does not work with retirement accounts.
Since you are with both Vanguard and Fidelity and use do autoroll at Fidelity can you verify that Vanguard does not seem to offer the autoroll feature. When I talked to them a short while ago about the mechanics of buying bills and bonds they did not seem to bring up the autoroll feature. It seemed like it was all up to the investor to do it manually.
And, again, if I'm going by the pure prescription of owning cash from Tex's and Craig's book, which I believe to be 100% Treasury / one year then it seems the best options are Vanguard's US Treasury money market fund or buying various T-Bills which have maturities no longer than a year. In this area I am definitely prizing ultimate safety over any form of yield improvement. Therefore, that would seem to basically eliminate your first and third third, leaving only your middle third.
But thanks for the detailed, thorough explanation!
Vinny
Since you are with both Vanguard and Fidelity and use do autoroll at Fidelity can you verify that Vanguard does not seem to offer the autoroll feature. When I talked to them a short while ago about the mechanics of buying bills and bonds they did not seem to bring up the autoroll feature. It seemed like it was all up to the investor to do it manually.
And, again, if I'm going by the pure prescription of owning cash from Tex's and Craig's book, which I believe to be 100% Treasury / one year then it seems the best options are Vanguard's US Treasury money market fund or buying various T-Bills which have maturities no longer than a year. In this area I am definitely prizing ultimate safety over any form of yield improvement. Therefore, that would seem to basically eliminate your first and third third, leaving only your middle third.
But thanks for the detailed, thorough explanation!
Vinny
sophie wrote: โSat Jul 06, 2019 2:29 pm Check out the numerous threads on cash. There are so many options it's ridiculous. It depends on your time horizon, tax situation, and how much you value simplicity. One approach is to divide your cash allocation into thirds: the top third is easily accessible cash (savings account, money market fund), the bottom "deep" third can be long-term holdings like Series I bonds or 5 year CDs, and the middle third is, well, middle (e.g. autorolled Treasury bills).
I happen to have high state/local taxes, so the highest yield for me right now is the one month Treasury bill, which I hold at Fidelity on autoroll. I use treasury money markets (Vanguard and Fidelity) and series I savings bonds also.
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You do raise another question that I have. In my most recent response, I stated that I'm valuing ultimate safety over any yield improvement.
However, it seems that I am / would be tempted by the $500 bonus. That would exceed all the income earned on a 2%, $20,000 investment for a full year, which would be $400.
Seems like an way to easily earn a not so small amount of money with not much work.
Vinny
However, it seems that I am / would be tempted by the $500 bonus. That would exceed all the income earned on a 2%, $20,000 investment for a full year, which would be $400.
Seems like an way to easily earn a not so small amount of money with not much work.
Vinny
dualstow wrote: โSat Jul 06, 2019 5:36 pmTD sent me an offer of a $500 bonus if I deposit 20K. So 2.5% After that, the savings rate is 0.10% I looked up Allyโs rate because I have checking with them and thought, ooh, 2.10%, not bad. (There are other offerings from TD that are higher, but without the bonus, I think).
Not really worth opening and closing accounts.
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Thanks for well putting into words my basic agreement with all you stated!
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jacksonM wrote: โSun Jul 07, 2019 6:57 pm T bills for me too. Some of it is in various money market accounts at Fidelity and Vanguard for convenience sake but basically if I have a big bunch of cash it goes into T-Bills.
As for why I do this, it's because that was what HB suggested in his book and also the authors of the newer book by the folks who originally started this forum. They seemed to have spent more time thinking about these kinds of things than me and showed facts and figures for why it worked in the overall scheme of things so I didn't see any reason to delve any further to come up with my own plans.
Especially true nowadays when the best you can hope for with cash beyond what they recommended is is a minuscule improvement that doesn't really justify the risk of doing something else.
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Re: How do you invest the Cash portion?
Does anyone use SHV for cash?
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My apologies. I just saw this post for the first time and realized it was for me.
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2) No Vanguard ladder as far as I know, although I havenโt really explored.
vnatale wrote: โMon Oct 07, 2019 8:00 pm A few questions for you...
1) First the oddball one. How do you get current news to appear under your posts -- even long after you have composed them?
2) I have read here how some people have created automatic ladders in Fidelity. I did call Vanguard (my investment company exclusively) to learn all about buying bills and bonds through them. They did not seem to offer any form of automatic buying? Is that true? You have to manually make your own ladders?
Thanks
Vinny
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2) No Vanguard ladder as far as I know, although I havenโt really explored.
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i like shv for cash ... shy is to bond related when rates rise ....shy is nice when the trend is down but it moves to much when rates go up up.
as it is gold and long term rates seem to move together . i would not want anymore correlated movement by using shy . shv is far less rate sensitive then shy .