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... value
each year as capital gains. Fortunately, there are now “tax-efficient”
index funds designed for taxable accounts, which are generally able to
avoid capital gains. In 199 9, Vanguard created ... data in the daily paper and your quarterly statements.
As an example, I’ve listed the returns for 199 8, 199 9, and 2000 for
some of the most commonly used stock asset classes:
Asset Class...
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... the roads and public safety made travel a danger-
ous, slow, and extremely uncomfortable endeavor.
At a stroke, the railroads made overland travel cheap, safe, rapid,
and relatively comfortable. ... financial chaos of Paris arrived a most extraordinary
Scotsman: John Law. After escaping the hangman for killing a man in
a 1 694 duel, he studied the banking system in Amsterdam and e...
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... economic impact as
largeasthat of financialjournalism. Just as many automobilepur-
chasers will buy on the basisof a favorable reviewinCar and
Driver,aglowing
money manager storycanmove vast amounts ... given
to an industry forum in 199 7, in which he began by noting,
This February, two portfolio managers, Suzanne Zak and Doug
Platt, left IAI, a fund company based in Minneapolis. As
Suz...
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... withdraws his cash. Here’s a reason-
able stock allocation for Sam:
• 20% Vanguard 500 Index
• 25% Vanguard Value Index
• 5% Vanguard Small Cap Index
•15% Vanguard Small Cap Value Index
•10% Vanguard ... to accommodate a taxable
emergency fund:
•12% Vanguard 500 Index
•15% Vanguard Value Index
• 3% Vanguard Small-Cap Index
9% Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index
• 6% Vanguard REIT Index
•1.8...
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... Fund,
261
Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund, 99
Vanguard Tax-Managed Small-Cap
Index Fund, 99
Vanguard Total International Fund,
255, 256
Vanguard Total Stock Market Fund,
104, 246
Vanguard Value Index ... Capital Index Europe,
Australia, and Far East (EAFE), 31,
32, 1 09, 117–1 19, 2 89
Morningstar Inc. Principia Pro software,
98 , 152, 205
Morningstar Inc. Unpopular Funds
Strategy, 2 09...
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... the traditional
mutual fund is referred to as “open-ended.”)
There are advantages and disadvantages to ETFs, all relatively
minor. The advantages are that they can be run more cheaply than an
open-ended ... withdrawal rate
would actually have depleted all the portfolios in about 15 years. This
means that a “penalty” of about 1.5%–2% was extracted by “the luck
of the draw.” In other words,...
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... financial chaos of Paris arrived a most extraordinary
Scotsman: John Law. After escaping the hangman for killing a man in
a 1 694 duel, he studied the banking system in Amsterdam and even-
tually ... uncomfortable endeavor.
At a stroke, the railroads made overland travel cheap, safe, rapid,
and relatively comfortable. Even more importantly, the steam engine
was undoubtedly the most...
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... million. At that point, the fund’s performance turned
around, and it gradually began to accumulate assets again, finally
reaching the $1 billion mark in 199 8. In that year, it beat the S&P 500
by ... financial and
economic data to forecast market direction. If we have learned any-
thing over the past 70 years from the likes of Cowles, Fama, Graham,
and Harvey, it’s that this is a fool’...
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... Sheltered
International
Vanguard Tax-Managed MSCI EAFE Open-end * 0.35% $10,000/NA 324 Taxable
International
Vanguard International NA Open-end none 0.64% $3,000/$1,000 91 0Sheltered
Value
Fidelity Spartan ... of a finan-
cial advisor just to gain access to DFA? Probably not. Their tax-man-
aged, foreign-small and foreign-value funds carry expenses which are
0.2% to 0.6% higher than Vangua...
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... formeris finan-
cially healthyand universallyadmired, withlegendary management,
a steadily growing stream of earnings,
and a hugepileof cash on
hand for emergencies. The latterisasick puppy, having ... nomenclature. In
common parlance, theshares ofgood companies arecalled “growth
stocks,” and those ofbad companies
arecalled“value stocks.” Let’s
considerfor a moment, Wal-Martand Kmart....