Comments on: The Home Stretch… http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/11/23/the-home-stretch/ Investing, economics, finance and random thoughts. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:01:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Tax Loss Harvesting | Crawling Road http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/11/23/the-home-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-643 Tax Loss Harvesting | Crawling Road Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:59:53 +0000 http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=2565#comment-643 [...] I raised a few questions from my previous post where I mentioned tax loss harvesting. This information only applies to taxable investors. [...] [...] I raised a few questions from my previous post where I mentioned tax loss harvesting. This information only applies to taxable investors. [...]

]]> By: craigr http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/11/23/the-home-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-625 craigr Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:40:46 +0000 http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=2565#comment-625 If the expense ratio is low they may be a possibility. I need to read the prospectuses. What bothers me about the Vanguard treasury bond funds is they are often not 100% treasury bonds but sometimes mix in govt. agency bonds. I just need to see what they have cooking inside of these things. Long Term Corporate bonds can be used for LT govt bonds if you have ethical objections to loaning the US Govt. money. Just be aware that you may not get the deflation protection of LT Treasury bonds if the bottom falls out of the market. As always, it's best to just own LT Treasury bonds directly if given the choice. Corporate bonds should use a fund because you want to stay diversified among many different issuers in case some default. Thanks for the link... If the expense ratio is low they may be a possibility. I need to read the prospectuses. What bothers me about the Vanguard treasury bond funds is they are often not 100% treasury bonds but sometimes mix in govt. agency bonds. I just need to see what they have cooking inside of these things.

Long Term Corporate bonds can be used for LT govt bonds if you have ethical objections to loaning the US Govt. money. Just be aware that you may not get the deflation protection of LT Treasury bonds if the bottom falls out of the market.

As always, it’s best to just own LT Treasury bonds directly if given the choice. Corporate bonds should use a fund because you want to stay diversified among many different issuers in case some default.

Thanks for the link…

]]> By: Kevin W http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2009/11/23/the-home-stretch/comment-page-1/#comment-624 Kevin W Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:36:29 +0000 http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=2565#comment-624 Vanguard announced a slew of new bond ETFs: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/article/fund-announcement-11232009 Do you think any of these should replace the iShares bond funds in the standard permanent portfolio? They are tied on expense ratio, so at first glance it looks like a wash to me. However the corporate bond funds might be appealing for the folks that boycott government bonds. Vanguard announced a slew of new bond ETFs:
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/insights/article/fund-announcement-11232009
Do you think any of these should replace the iShares bond funds in the standard permanent portfolio?

They are tied on expense ratio, so at first glance it looks like a wash to me.

However the corporate bond funds might be appealing for the folks that boycott government bonds.

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