Readers: Happy
Dec
2023
Are interval funds right for you?
An interval fund is a type of closed-end mutual fund that doesn’t trade on public exchanges. Interval funds are among a broader class of limited liquidity structures—that including business development companies, tender offer funds and non-traded REITs—are meant to be more accessible to retail investors with lower minimums, no drawdowns, simplified tax reporting and regular liquidity windows (intervals). Interval funds have investment minimums as low as $25,000 to $50,000 and are open to accredited investors. They typically provide redemptions up to 5% per quarter. Most carry some cash reserves or a liquidity sleeve alongside their core investment strategy in order to make that liquidity available. Interval funds are popular as a vehicle for debt and fixed income strategies. As of 2022, about 60% of interval funds fit into this bucket. Real estate is another popular asset class for interval funds. The fund periodically offers to buy back a percentage of outstanding shares at net asset value (NAV). The rules for interval funds, along with the types of assets they hold, make this investment largely illiquid as compared with other funds. High yields are the main reason investors are attracted to interval funds. Minimum investments are often between $10,000 and $25,000 and have expense ratios as high as 3%. This is way beyond the 0.04% cost of an index fund. Your sales fee of 5.75% may lower your returns also. Calculate the impact of all costs on the fund you invest in since promises of high yield are not guarantees.
https://www.amazon.com/MasterClass-Buffetts-SIMPLE-Strategy/dp/1983485268
You only need $250 a month to create your retirement fund
Yes, because the compounding of stock returns over time, you can create a $1 million fund in about 34 years. You pay about $102,000 over time and compounding does the rest. The average annual stock market return is 11%. From 1989 to 2022, the return was 11.94% before inflation. $250 per month is manageable for most folks. That may be a new car or the total internet plus screening program fees. As long as you are not paying off a huge debt, $250 is a small price to pay for a comfortable retirement. And a $ million may not be enough since people are living longer and medical bills are getting higher. The fact remains that the Miracle of Compounding helps you attain your goal and it only takes time.
https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Compounding-Turn-day-into/dp/1470176513/
Ride the stock market for life
Since 1976, the Vanguard 500 Index fund (VFINX) has provided over 11% average annual return. Over those 47 years you could have amassed $4.7 million from $3000 annual addition (not counting inflation). Compound interest works. This is the fund Warren Buffett picked to be his sole investment for retirement. He picked a Fed fund to hold his annual income provider, moving his stock market gains and dividends to it annually. That is his advice for most of us in order to avoid the costly monthly, quarterly or annual commissions and fees of “professional” advice. For the really smart among us, a Roth IRA (never taxable) account is the best vehicle for our money. Created in 1998, the Roth IRA accumulations are never taxed so when you need cash for large expenses; you sell VFINX shares ($440 each) but pay no capital gains. After 20 years your balance is over $200,000. As the fund pays dividends you pay no tax on interest annually. As a regular investor, this is the best set up for a life of growth and income. You only have to leave the account balance alone while you add $250 or more a month. Simple, but difficult for most of us to do.
Only for the few: https://www.amazon.com/Warren-Buffetts-Vanguard-Funds-Retirement/dp/1496148592/
How did you do in 2023?
Some readers use the Vanguard Top 10 funds. Here is how they did in 2023.
2023 Total Return Vanguard Fund Long-term Return Longevity
26.21% 500 Index VFINX 11.02% since 1976
8.73% Energy 9.31% since 1984
26.48% Extended
Market 10.09%
since 1987
3.65% Health 15.17%
since 1984
13.09% International
Growth 10.04%
since 1981
27.17% PRIMECAP 13.42%
since 1984
19.23% Small Cap
Index 10.6%
since 1960
6.78%
14.92%
21.07%
16.73% Average 11.1%
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*Average Annual Returns as of
https://www.amazon.com/Vanguards-Top-Ten-mutual-funds/dp/150073909X/
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Like 1776, this
period is a test
of democracy—We
rejected an "American
fascist" once
The
Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030
Parallels of this era in the past
may hint at our future: democracy breaks apart legally
Billionaires
paid $881 million for votes in 2022
midterm elections
Nov 2020 Wealthy
discredit election process
Jan
6 2021 Direct
govt overthrow failed: guns
& bombs were ready
Trump
engaged in a "criminal
conspiracy" to stop Biden
“I
don’t f—ing care that they have weapons”
Trump was “detached
from reality”
Trump
used mafia-style intimidation on the defenseless
Trump still terrorizing
election woman
Parscale: “a
sitting president asking for civil war.”
Trump:
“Just
say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me”
GOP fascism: “RINO
hunt armed; no bagging limit” J6
comm threat
January
6, 2021 “A
date which will live in infamy”
Trump’s Supremes END
personal rights & state
laws except for weapons
WMDs
Fascism: GOP
to stop women leaving state for abortion
It’s
not a court. It’s a junta: Two Americas
Trump: President
Biden is 'enemy of the state'
Christian
Nationalist Party (CNP) replaces
GOP
Apr 9 Illustrated
Anne Frank book removed by Florida school
Apr 21 Trump: “I
am your justice”
May 9 Trump
guilty of sexual abuse
Jun 8 Trump
indicted by the United States of America
Violation
of the Espionage Act
Conspiracy to obstruct
justice
Making false
statements
Conspiracy to defraud the
Conspiracy to obstruct
Congressional proceeding
Obstruction of and attempt
to obstruct an official proceeding
Conspiracy against right to
vote
Attempted coup
d'état by
any other name
350+ people have
been sentenced to jail or prison.
Trump and His Gang Get the Mob Treatment
Aug 4 “IF
YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”
Mobster
#1 Enrique Tarrio gets 22 years
Mobster
Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years
Mobster
Ethan Nordean gets 18 years
Mobster
Dominic Pezzola sentenced to 10 years
VIOLATION OF THE GEORGIA RICO (RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND
CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS) ACT SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT INIPERSONATIN PUBLIC OFFICER FIRST
DEGREE
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE DOCUMENTS
FORGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
FILING FALSE DOCUMENTS
SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER
FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
SOLICITATION OF VIOLATION OF OATH BY PUBLIC OFFICER
FALSE STATEMENTS AND WRITINGS
Dec 2023: Trump
using Hitler language to scare us
“Wannabe
Dictator” to
run our House of “Representatives”
Jan 2025 Dictator
pardons himself: his
Supremes agree
How Govt wastes our money:
military
space plane blasts off on another expensive secret mission that lasts years
Wasted taxes: NASA
Valkyrie, humanoid
robot, works in space: costs $2 million
ME
takes Trump of ballot as insurrectionist
Court of appeals not
Supremes to decide if
Trump is above the law: insurrectionist OK?
Judge accepted new
SCAMS/SPINS:
GOP
gerrymandering in WI districts ended by Supremes: stop district separation
GOP
doubts election votes counted accurately: democracy in balance
$660 for telehealth
analysis of sinus infection: fluticasone, and an antibiotic, Keflex
Teen
kills sister during fight over Christmas gifts
Chingyuan “Gary”
Chang CA stole
$58,560 from clients, illegal securities sales.
LPL caught
violating supervision 125 clients $650,000: sales practice violations: fine
BlendJet recalls 4.8
million portable blenders over lacerations
and burns
Jobs
AI
will help you land your job in 2024
Who owns your account now?
So it comes down to
this: talk
to a lighted table lamp when you have no one else
Why some folks
don’t retire: many over 65 don’t want to take traditional retirement
SS
benefits not as great as we think they are: when
to take SS early
Living
alone is on the rise for all ages except for 21 year olds
Homebuyers are
getting
much older: costs rise faster than incomes
Ozempic
stop addiction: weight loss: stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, nail
biting
IRS
rules for RMDs has changed: changes in age to start
Miracles:
Completely new cause of
diabetes discovered: new treatment may be tested
New Advancements in
Managing and Treating
Lupus
A new study uses
vibrating molecules to obliterate
cancer cells
One AI engineer
warns, “We’re
creating God.”
Scientist can convert
planet-warming carbon
dioxide into a harmless powdery fuel
Flowers
evolving to pollinate themselves as insect populations continue to die off
“Good relationships
lead to health and happiness” Harvard
Study of Adult Development
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Our Universe is Mind-Blowing
Light is both
a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.
I
don’t think that there is any such thing as a position or a velocity of a
particle.
Everything (galaxies
to stones) in universe made of subatomic
energy ‘vibrations’
A subatomic ‘particle’
is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.
A ‘particle’ is an event;
not an objective thing. This event is set of complex relationships.
New theory may
finally unite
Einstein's gravity with the quantum world
Our Reality May Be a
Sum
of All Possible Realities
Mass–energy
equivalence: E=mc^2. At the smallest
level; Everything is moving
Energy into matter: scientists
converted light energy directly into matter in one step
In place of atomic
lattice, light
waves used to create an optical lattice with same geometry
Physics Nobel Prize:
“entanglement” 2
particles share info instantly at a distance
Quantum
mechanics violates local realism: two objects behave as single system at
distance
“It may be that gravity and quantum mechanics are
exactly the same thing,” Leonard Susskind
Gravity
might induce the collapse of quantum vibrations into 1 quantum state—our
world
Strange state
of physics that allows energy
to flow frictionlessly through a material.
Bending light from
extreme gravity reveals largest black hole
so far
Curved
SpaceTime: heavy masses and simultaneously quantum effects become visible
There is no TIME at this
level because of force fields come and go in all directions.
Universe expanding: events
may not come together like they did before: created our time.
Our planetary
system: rarest
system: only 1% of all systems with same number of planets
Stars fueled by the self-annihilation
of dark matter might have been spotted for the first time by JWST
Inside protons,
neutrons, it
is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.
Gold
made from neutron stars: collisions produce more neutrons:79 protons,118
neutrons
The proton
is so complicated science still finds new energy entities/forces every
year.
“Empty space is a
boiling, bubbling brew of virtual
particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you
can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.
New method to study systems
with long-range interactions: previously puzzling experts
The electricity we use comes
from the field around the wire not from electron itself.
Natural
‘missing law’ explain
how
universe evolved: functions increase in complexity over time
Scientists
build 'baby' wormhole as sci-fi moves closer to fact: inside quantum
computer
starts-with-a-bang/universe-expansion-not-accelerating/
Physicists knew black
holes eventually disappear particle by particle. Now they think everything
else does, too.
Astronomers
discover raw
materials for life are present all across the Universe: methyl cation
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We can apply for Social
Security online: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/
We can apply for
health care online: https://www.healthcare.gov/
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