indexfundfan @ indextown

I have been looking at various international money transfer options. The following three looks interesting: www.customhouse.com www.orderwires.com www.xe.com Xe seems to be using the transfer services of Custom House and I came across OrderWires from a Google Ad. Another option is to use Citibank’s online international wire service at $30 a pop. Recently, Washington Mutual [...]

Vanguard Diehard enels today posted (49075) a link to asset classes returns from 1927 to 2005. This is a valuable resource for any future use when I might want to run various portfolio return/risk scenarios. I am saving a copy of the file. Here is the link — http://www.tamasset.com/Site/TAM.html

Recently, I generated an interesting chart showing how my asset allocation has evolved since 2002. I started out with a 100% equity allocation, being modelled along Larry Swedroe’s two parts of “value” equity to one part of “blend”, and with roughly equal allocations to US large-cap, US small-cap and International equities. Subsequently, I added REIT, [...]