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This year’s international markets are doing well mostly because of Korea and Taiwan
If you look at a broad ex-US ETF like VXUS and compare it to a broad US ETF like VTI or VOO, you’ll see that VXUS is outperforming the US market. But this doesn’t tell the whole story. If we divide VXUS into its component regions, the picture starts to …
Tax straddle treatment for downside protection of portfolio with puts
I'm reaching the age/portfolio size where a fast 50% drawdown (say over 6 months) would be a headache, while a 3-5 year grind down wouldn't bother me nearly as much (due to other income, margin, etc.) I'm considering spending \~3%/year on staggered puts to protect my core buy-and-hold SPY and …
Who will be the long term AI winners
Who are the big winners long term? The market is currently pricing the compute supply chain, the labs and hyperscalers as the winners but I’m not so sure. 5 years from now the world will be completely different and i think the biggest impact will be in places that are …
Merrill Lynch Index Funds Reinvestment Options
I want to purchase a S&P 500 index fund through ML, but the reinvestment options are confusing me. Can someone simply explain the difference between: Capital Gains and Dividends and Capital Gains Only. Also the tax implications. (There is a cash option, but i understand that one.)
Is there any way to invest as an American abroad?
Hallo, Is there a way to invest in ETFs? Atm I'm investing in individual stocks, which works ok. But I would much rather put my money in an ETF and let it do its work. Or at least have both options. I can't open an American bank account and don't …
14 years of EPAM sys. - from growth to idle speed
Epam retrospective analysis makes a valuable lesson to how public company governance can make or destroy itself. Back in 2014, when first Russian/Ukranian crisis broke off with Crimea annexation, CEO and management had made a decision to take advantage of such situation. With deliberate decision to exploit local currencies plunge, …
Tencent open sourced a 770B model and on its own blind test it loses about four times in ten
Tencent published Hy4 preview on 28 August under Apache 2.0, weights included, commercial use permitted. It is a mixture of experts, 770B total parameters, about 49B active per token, with context stated above 1M. The number that stuck with me came from Tencent's own evaluation. 163 internal experts blind rated …
Is putting $10k into real estate a reasonable move or am I overcomplicating this?
I have about $10k beyond my emergency fund and retirement contributions. I've been staring at my account for weeks like that will magically cause it to acrue interest without having to explore yet another investing channel. Most of my money is already in index funds, and real estate sounded interesting …
Earnings have been the largest contributing factor to the recent 2-3Y stock price increases
Could you imagine without the war, where we would be right now? Insane that earnings have been so strong that they’re completely ignoring disastrous macroeconomics. I really can’t help but sometimes think about where we would be right now if there was no war lol
PSNL looks like an opportunity with limited downside yet substantial upside if the Tempus merger falls through
TLDR: PSNL has very limited downside risk (low single digit %) due to an earlier merger agreement with Tempus and yet potentially triple digit % return if the merger deal is to fall through, which looks increasingly likely after the Moderna cancer vaccine update - especially after considering the stock …