Comments on: Permanent Portfolio Results 2008 – A Disaster Averted

By: Complicated costs. Simple saves. | Crawling Road

Complicated costs. Simple saves. | Crawling Road — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:38:11 +0000

[...] foreign stocks, etc. is no guarantee that a bad bear market can’t come up and bite them all at once. I didn’t go back and run the performance numbers, but my quick look predicts that over the [...]

By: craigr

craigr — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:09:26 +0000

I am not familiar with european bond funds. Sorry.

By: JDB

JDB — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:50:50 +0000

Craig,

I had a long post being lost because of a wrong CAPTCHA-code. It’s quite late already so I’ll summarise. I’m in europe and found that euro bonds and indices don’t perform as well as US’s. So i’d like to find, especially, US treasury bond etf’s (both long and short) denoted in euro. Do you know if they exist and do you know there name or isin?

Thanks very much

JDB

By: Johnny White

Johnny White — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:29:07 +0000

Found what I have been looking for, for several years. Kiplingers first turned me on to
Permanent Portfolio last year, and it did fabulous as you all know. 3 losses in 26 years
is good enough for me. Johnny White, Mobile, Ala

By: Crawling Road Blog Featured on Money Talk | Crawling Road

Crawling Road Blog Featured on Money Talk | Crawling Road — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:20:40 +0000

[...] the performance of the Permanent Portfolio in 2008 using much of the information provided on the 2008 year in review page. He also talks about performance of the mutual fund and other aspects of the portfolio [...]

By: Being Right Can Still Mean You’re Wrong | Crawling Road

Being Right Can Still Mean You’re Wrong | Crawling Road — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:49:36 +0000

[...] market call but completely wrong in how the markets will react to it. You may also want to read the 2008 year in review post where I also talk briefly about the inability of investment gurus to have predicted what was going [...]

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:18:15 +0000

Craig,

Thanks. We have a stable value fund that has earned ~5% per year over the past 10 years so I’ll probably use that for 75% of my money and use an S&P 500 index fund for the remainder. The problem is I have to keep my money in my 401k since I am an active employee. Don’t have a choice about gold, though.