Friday, March 20, 2020

JPMorgan counting on us buyandhold investors to save them


Turn off your RMD auto-distribution: don’t sell shares now
Those of us with automatic RMD distributions may want to suspend this service temporarily. We have until December 31 each year (unless this is your 1st year) to take the amount required from qualified accounts in order to pay tax on the gains. Taking your RMD at the bottom of the market will cost you more precious shares than previous years. Don’t LOCK-IN your losses! I put an alarm in my cell to tell me to switch RMD distributions back on in July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov or December just in case I forget. We must take our full calculated RMD by December 31. Our past schedule is void. Hopefully the market will regain some of its 25% losses by then. You can do this on Vanguard’s account summary page with the link in right column:
Required minimum distribution”

It took 4 years for the stock market index to recover from 2008 lows
Depending on your portfolio profile, it will take time to recover from this stock market correction. If you use the stock market as your checking or savings account, you will suffer when you sell. If however, you are a long-term investor, just turn your head from the daily gyrations and BUY like Buffett. Last year the stock market gained 31%. The long-term average is still 11%. If you pay your advisor 2% you will have to wait a longer time. If you think of your money in terms of short- and long-term reserves, this correction has no impact on your ultimate goals. John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, said that you can control what you pay for advice not control the market. Giving away 2% of your long-term money will decrease your final accumulation by up to 63%. “Over a 50-year investing lifetime, that little 2 percent fee will erode 63 percent of what you would have had. As Bogle puts it, “the tyranny of compounding costs” is overwhelming.”

Why market timing does NOT work
JPMorgan found that the 40 best days accounted for more than the entire S&P 500 return from 1993–2013. If you miss the best days trying to time the best exit and enter days, you end up with returns just above the inflation rate: 3.79%. Buffett says: “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” We need patience while it is going up and going down. “A very low-cost index is going to beat a majority of the amateur-managed money or professionally-managed money.” Why? Because no professional has beaten the market return over time. They say they have but they picked two of their lucky days to market their hype. Research: from 1871–2016, the 5 most positive monthly returns in S&P 500 history came in the 1930s as the U.S. came OUT of the Great Depression Time to BUY: smart money moves to Vanguard.

JPMorgan counting on us buyandhold investors to save them
Speculators who send stocks down by selling to avoid the lows in a panic like the current one are counting on us long-term investors to bail them out according to JPMorgan. Strategists at the bank reckon there’s a good chance that buy-and-hold managers like pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds and the like are ready to stabilize markets with stock buying in order to rebalance their portfolios away from bonds. Stocks have fallen so much that many institutions will be forced to sell bonds to rebalance their holdings. Some analysts say that rebalancing is not necessary since stocks and bonds eventually rebound to their original ratios in the long term. Rebalancing is actually selling winners before their time. It is a form of market timing. Tortoise not hare wins.

How teacher 403b plan advisors get paid
Teachers may be losing HALF their potential retirement funds to advisors and plan sponsors. Some 403b plans are actually annuities with excessive fees—2.5% a year plus recordkeeping fees, maintenance fees and contract fees. You might be contributing a great amount of your salary every year—$4,400 a year—but plans are taking $2,000. If you invested in stocks and your account grew to $500,000 by age 66, you would be paying over $12,000 a year for few services. Services would be in the form of a telephone service center, not a live advisor. Even though your school organization is charged by law to provide fiduciary duty (best options for you), they contract it out to an insurer or other “third party.” There are so many ‘mouths’ to feed that you are left with the crumbs. 401k plans at larger organizations are now repaying their workers after many years of overcharging for retirement fund services. Your teacher union may have already started action against your 403b plan administrator. Robbing you blind.

Who got rich from the last bailout?
Your tax dollars are going to make many rich people richer. During the last bailout crisis, even the foreign banks and profitable firms  got money they did not need. None of them said no. This time Boeing, which killed a lot of people from bad management, wants $60 BILLIONS of our money. The whole leisure class industry wants $BILLIONS including The Boss’s hotels, golf resorts, and global properties. Most of those crying for bailouts had large surpluses from huge profits during the last 12-year bull market. They spent it on themselves—buybacks, CEO bonuses, more jets, etc. Remember, many of these firms have paid no taxes for years. Like The Boss, they have used every trick in the book to avoid paying their fair share. An unbiased analysis of this situation would be that America is a socialist country for the rich. We pay subsidies to profitable firms and have been doing so for decades. Subsidies to the elites is what American is all about. Even our Reps use info illegally. Lobbyists tell our Reps what to subsidize in return for election money. Why are we still providing oil, coal and gas subsidies to profitable companies? Trump pays oil/gas companies when the oil/gas market price falls. He promises agribusiness price guarantees and support payments to keep that group voting for him. The national debt has surged from $20 trillion to $23 trillion since Trump started. He promised to pay it all off.

File your taxes for free
TurboTax and other for-profit tax prep firms are due to raise prices soon. If you have your documents, use your favorite software now and file your tax now for refund. The payment, if any, can be in July; the filing should not. Rumors confirmed: filing delayed to July 15. Check your state for deadline. The federal and state filing can cost you nothing at https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/. Another site has no cost or restrictions: https://www.creditkarma.com/tax. And remember you can usually reduce income and thus tax by making a deductible contribution to your IRA. File now for refund: 90 day interest-free extension if you owe.


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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracy—do we really want ‘low-IQMobster?

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Mob Boss and his lieutenants have not been tested since it is a hoax
Mobster’s mob will test everyone else but the Boss and VP
Mobster: “The markets are going to be just fine, just fine.”
Mobster’s hotels/clubs get $650/night/SecretService guards
Mobster to hide bad news on jobs: re-election in view



Opioid lawsuit lawyers to get over $3 BILLION: Prosecutors get vote $. Victims get __?

His ‘Hoax’ proves His Wall is not worth the money: businesses still hire undocumented

McConnell’s bailout to his ‘friends and family’: "industries of national importance" Socialism


SCAMS/SPINS:
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GOP asking sitting judges to retire so The Boss can install his kind of ‘justice.’
GOP hinders changes in voting measures to block more Dems casting votes.



GOP conspiracy Jones pushing his products to treat corona: propaganda of worst kind.
Politicians, foreign and domestic, using pandemic to move public fears!
US leadership reached its bottom with corona: Just propaganda game to them.

You can be murdered in your bed by police: ‘The Public’ reported guns in house!
Gun and ammo sales surge in US with coronavirus fears. ‘Better safe than sorry’?

New hack strategy: I got an email from vendor with link to special document: FAKE
William & Katherine Alverson Healthient caught fraud to shareholders shares $4 mil
Stephen Peters VisionQuest caught $10 million ponzi loan notes fraud
Banks claim to help victims IF you can find branch that’s open: Still 24% interest charge
Wall Street Pros are panicking for qtr bonus: smart money moves to Vanguard to buy.

Avoid Alzheimer’s: study shows curiosity and an aversion to conformity keeps brain fit.
Health care sharing ministries policies cost this person $40,000: Saved by ObamaCare.
Hand sanitizer kills girlfriend in deadly fire.  
911 calls to police for toilet paper: OR police complain of calls—use salt-water sponge!

MSC Meraviglia Miami passengers flew home: no one tested before spreading to country
Keep track of all the FAKE virus info: eg: blacks NOT immune to virus; test NOT costly


Evangelicals’ Dead Sea Scrolls are fakes: $ millions spent--faith was not enough. Like Lost Ark

Jobs
An estimated 200,000 nursing positions to go unfilled at hospitals across the country. 
Amazon needs 100,000: corona self-quarantine drives online orders and takeout.

Doctors sleep in basements garages to protect their families. Hospitals full.

Who owns your account now?
Retailers forced to give sick leave: do you go to work sick for pay or lose job?

Miracle:
Out of blood? The “Hoax” causing shortage: BYOB bring your own? We can’t make it.

CA man provides toilet paper to those in need from those who share: Hoarders note!

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