Crawling Road » index funds http://crawlingroad.com/blog The Permanent Portfolio, Investing, Finance and Random Thoughts. Tue, 22 May 2012 21:55:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= The Crawling Road Money Show focuses on investing, finance and economics. We discuss the Permanent Portfolio and other topics to make investing simple and successful. Craig Rowland clean Craig Rowland podcastsxml@crawlingroad.com podcastsxml@crawlingroad.com (Craig Rowland) 2010-2012 Craig Rowland Simple investing for success. investing, permanent portfolio, indexing, stocks, bonds, cash, gold, harry browne, john chandler, craig rowland, craigr, crawling road Crawling Road » index funds http://crawlingroad.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://crawlingroad.com/blog Standard & Poor’s SPIVA Report – Passive beats active…as usual. http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/05/standard-poors-spiva-report-passive-beats-active-as-usual/ http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/05/standard-poors-spiva-report-passive-beats-active-as-usual/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:00:48 +0000 Craig Rowland http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=6939

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Just going over some data on actively managed vs. passively managed funds and wanted to post the Standard & Poor’s Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) report link: S&P SPIVA Report Cards S&P is the creator of the S&P 500 index plus a variety of other domestic and international stock and bond [...]

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A poster on the forum brought up a great question on whether index funds would be forced to buy the upcoming Facebook IPO. The worry is that the index funds will load up on the IPO and take a loss later as the IPO price comes back down to Earth. No, this isn’t likely to happen. IPOs are, [...]

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Doing some research recently I’ve found that almost 9 out of 10 of the trades on any given day on Wall Street are between professionals, not individuals. Think about that for a second. When you go to make a trade, 9 out of 10 times you are doing it against someone that does it for a living. And not [...]

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The Permanent Portfolio allocation is 25% stocks, 25% bonds, 25% gold and 25% cash. In this series of posts we're going to talk about how to implement each one of these components to take advantage of the economic cycles of Prosperity, Inflation, Recession and Deflation. We begin this series with discussing the 25% stock allocation and Prosperity.

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