Investing - Theory, News & General • Fidelity Promoting Index Funds?
I just noticed a Fidelity Smart Money email I received 2 days ago containing:MONEY LIE DETECTORIndex funds can be a low-cost, low-fuss way to start investing.True.An index fund is a type of mutual...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • From a Scale of 1 to 10, how will I do...
I’m currently renting and paying $2,150/month. Salary is in the low six figures with a potential 12% bonus. I save 10% of my salary in a 401K, and my employer matches an additional 5%. My net worth is...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • From where should I pull my money to...
My wife and I have found a house that we would like to buy and move into as our final house. It has everything we need and want (ie no need for upgrades or renovations) so we would like to move on it...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Episode 71: Matt Hougan discusses...
https://bogleheads.podbean.com/e/episod ... ick-ferri/ This is the clearest explanation of blockchain and its uses I've heard. "Episode 71: Matt Hougan discusses the basics of blockchain and...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • NVDA Windfall: How much to sell?
After seeing all the chatter about NVDA, I decided to check our investments. We bought this stock years ago for about $700. I was pretty shocked to see that it is now worth almost $300K! It is now a...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Button selection no longer works with Safari...
I've used Citibank website for years and suddenly the button selection on their website no longer is enabled when using Safari. Chrome works, but it's a PITA to use another browser just for this. Is...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Transferred EJ & E*Trade into Fidelity - Timing...
Realization EJ had me in high expense ratio front loaded funds, padding their wallets at my expense. Since, I am a Fidelity account holder (401K, 529’s and 3 youth accounts) I pulled in both EJ...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Internet security question
A good friend's schizophrenic son went off his meds a few days ago. He then posted a video on youtube saying lots of terrible stuff about his mother and giving her name, address and phone number. He...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Any value in adding gold or TIPS
Hi I’m a 40 year old moderately aggressive investor. Most of my assets are in low cost stock index funds in retirement accounts. I also have Roth and 529s for kids and a smaller brokerage account. As...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Best Place for New Car Batteries w/Installation
Any recommendations for: (1) battery type, and (2) where to have a new battery installed.l? This is for a Toyota Corolla.I’m not a DIYer on batteries, so I’ll leave it to the pros to install.I was...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Help me understand why Vanguard target date funds...
I think this is the 2nd or 3rd time I've seen this happen with this 401k - this time, a notice from Vanguard saying the Target Retirement Trust Plus will be replaced by the Target Retirement Trust...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Maui Vacation
Any of you been recently and have any recommendation for restaurants (formal and mom and pop style sit down) and any beaches near wailea with no waves or minimal for my 3 year old. thank...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Best Retirement Calculator
I know this question has probably been asked a ton, but I had trouble tracking anything down in the search.I have tried the popular ones (New Retirement and the Fire one), but am looking for a free...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Hiring Journeyman Level vs Master Level...
Being a new home owner, there are some minor maintenance and changes I'd like to make.For plumbing, this include a1) adding shut-off valves to various intakes under the sink and a2) fixing a minor...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Help me retire in 5 years
Im married with kids under 8.only have 64k eidl loan and no other debtsown my home and cars .my vanguard personal account is @712k traditonal Ira is at 129k.'I can invest 135k to my personal for next...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • An initial plan for someone in their 40's
Trying to help a family member with a plan for retirement. The person is in their 40's. They have 403b, and a pretty good job. I don't know how much they have saved up. They are not that investment...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • My portfolio consolidation plan - thoughts?
Hi everyone,I was pretty lazy over the past 5 years and haven't been keeping up with the forums like I used to, but recently I'm reading daily again and am ready to consolidate and clean up our...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Approaching retirement: should I take a 403b tax hit...
Appreciate Boglehead input.Single mom, 59, with 403b of 1.7mn after years of saving. Planning retirement at 65. Estimating that I will be close to 95% of my current income for retirement (low...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Comparison of asset allocations
I wanted to compare the following asset allocation for performance and volatility 1. 100% US index(VTI)2. 100% Global index (VT)3. 100% Intl index (VXUS)I am trying to get for the last 50 years. PV...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • suggestions for shrubs
Our bushes out front had gotten way out of hand, deer-eaten, and overgrown. Looked like a mess. So we just had a landscape company rip all that out, build a couple low stone walls, and fill in the...
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