Author Archive: indexfundfan
indexfundfan
March 27, 2006
The big debate of the benefits of adding CCF (collateralized commodities futures) funds to a portfolio continues on the Diehards forum (48981). As for myself, I had previously bought PCRIX as part of my Precious Metal / Commodity asset class allocation but decided to eliminate it due to difficulties in re-balancing and performing DCA (PCRIX is a transaction-fee fund at VBS). I replaced it with VGPMX instead.
The new ETF DBC sounds interesting but I would defer any consideration until the expense ratio is lowered to at least below 0.8%.
indexfundfan
March 27, 2006
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 introduced a FREE checking account that is supposed to provide FREE domestic and international wire services. That might be another viable cheap option.
indexfundfan
March 27, 2006
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
