Investment Thread
- Thread starter fuse
- Start date
Areas in which I am currently invested:
Roth IRA:
Very small amount of money.
Apple, Gilead, Johnson & Johnson.
Rollover IRA:
FLBAX
FOCPX
FSCRX
FUSVX
HAINX
Current company 401k:
FCNKX
VTSNX
My grandmother gave me some Norfolk Southern stock.
I’d qualify myself as self taught, fairly ignorant and with a pretty aggressive risk tolerance.
Would like to learn more about bond funds and find some balance in my portfolio.
Overall happy with return- I watch my portfolio more than I should due to the 2000 crash. I consider adjustments quarterly.
Hope someone finds this helpful.
Roth IRA:
Very small amount of money.
Apple, Gilead, Johnson & Johnson.
Rollover IRA:
FLBAX
FOCPX
FSCRX
FUSVX
HAINX
Current company 401k:
FCNKX
VTSNX
My grandmother gave me some Norfolk Southern stock.
I’d qualify myself as self taught, fairly ignorant and with a pretty aggressive risk tolerance.
Would like to learn more about bond funds and find some balance in my portfolio.
Overall happy with return- I watch my portfolio more than I should due to the 2000 crash. I consider adjustments quarterly.
Hope someone finds this helpful.
rthomas
Member
How far away are you from retirement?
Way farther than I’d like (financially speaking).
To hit a sustainable/magic number, likely 20-30 years.
I really hope canned foot is a typo ;-)
I think they still sell pigs feet.
Edit: yep. Semi-boneless. Gets 2 stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Hormel-Pork-...UTF8&qid=1515427858&sr=8-1&keywords=pigs+feet
PackMan97
Member
I'm telling ya, it's gonna be the next big thing! I'm all in...talked to a couple of big Pork guys at the State game on Saturday. They convinced me.
OldPhiKap
Super Moderator
I'm tellin' 'ya, go long on frozen concentrated orange juice. The freeze will not be as bad as expected.
I mentioned on the other thread, the old saw was that your percentage of stocks should be roughly the same as 110 minus your age. Obviously generic advice which is not worth much. But is that still a broad rule of thumb for the typical, mid-risk-tolerant investor?
It has been. But with expected bond returns so low (without getting too geeked out, long-term expected bond returns are roughly equal to new issue coupon value), because bonds have been in rally mode pretty much since 1981, it is being re-thought. Quant types are now including a "credit" category (e.g., BIICX) and an "alternative" category (e.g., AQMIX) to go along with the more traditional categories of "equities" (e.g., JPUS) and "bonds" (e.g., TLT).
My 4th grade teacher kept a stillborn piglet in a jar of alcohol in the classroom. To teach us ... something.
At Duke, I wrote a paper on the poetry of James Dickey, and came across this gem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42713/the-sheep-child
-jk
Well-known Moderator
I thought we weren't allowed to bash the tarheels anymore.
That is one freaky poem.
Isn't that the same guy who wrote Deliverance?
-jk
PackMan97
Member
Just a note here, you don't need to win the lottery...you just need to get a hold of the winning ticket
thedukelamere
Member
Things I expected to see in the investment thread:
- Bitcoin
- Lottery tickets
- A sidebar convo about lack of investment in players during the one and done era
Things I did not expect to see in the investment thread:
-A poem about a farmer raping a sheep, begetting a mutant half-breed
But then again...
- Bitcoin
- Lottery tickets
- A sidebar convo about lack of investment in players during the one and done era
Things I did not expect to see in the investment thread:
-A poem about a farmer raping a sheep, begetting a mutant half-breed
But then again...
hurleyfor3
Moderator
Yes, I have investments. No, I don't tell people what to invest in for free, unless you're (a) my mother or (b) my source for Final Four tickets. I mean the money to invest in things has to come from somewhere.
OldPhiKap
Super Moderator
If you work in the financial industry, I understand and respect your perspective.
I don’t know that I would change my portfolio based on this thread. I do think if someone shared “hey, I had some luck with $abc” it might pique my curiousity and give me an opportunity to learn something.
rthomas
Member
I'm a believer in indexing - you don't really need a lot of paid advice for this to work.
Pick your index (mine has been the S&P 500), put money in regularly (I've been adding a little bit each month since 1995), don't look until 20 years later, and you will have an account full of fun coupons.
Pick your index (mine has been the S&P 500), put money in regularly (I've been adding a little bit each month since 1995), don't look until 20 years later, and you will have an account full of fun coupons.