Recent content by JohnEyles

Not to disagree with the main point of your post, but I've lost about 6.5% of my principal since I bought into VWEHX almost exactly a year ago. Of course I've made probably slightly more in dividends during that year ...

Congratulations, I think you've just given a very succinct and intuitive argument of the benefits of portfolio diversification !

Haven't read the whole thread, so maybe this has been mentioned ... Buy blood meal at the garden supply store and sprinkle it around the perimeter. Repeat after significant rain.

Called Vanguard and they gave a disappointing vague answer ... Anyone know if the Vgd "managed payout" funds will pay QDI (qualified dividend income that gets favorable tax treatment) or is it all ordinary income ?

I think what he meant to say was "as excited as a little French schoolgirl on Bastille Day". French schoolgirls are a useful rhetorical device. For example, after reading the description of Coast Guard parachute rescue swimmers in "A Perfect Storm" (great book, do not confuse with the...

Don't forget the taxi drivers !

Good arbitrage (is that the right word) now ! ISM and OSM are about a dollar apart. Even with bid/ask spreads, a person ought to be a able to make 50- cents a share or so by swapping 'em.

I was talking 3-month and 6-month Treasury Bills.

So is it just me, or do these guys figure they're above the law and don't have to send out a 1099 ? I sure haven't gotten one. At the website, you can go to "Manage Direct" and then down into "taxes" and it kinda gives you the info, but without really dividing it into "line" amounts. I guess...

Thanks folks. Looks like those of us still holding these things have some extry-big dividends coming up !

Never mind. I was not computing the fraction of a year's interest carefully enough; I thought a day plus-or-minus would not really matter, but it's actually one-part-in-30, which is about 0.1% for the numbers we're talking. Oddly, Excel, (at least the several years old OSX version I'm...

Has anyone recently tried to reproduce the interest calculation for ISM/OSM ? For ISM for 2007, I show the following per-share dividends (in reverse order, last one is Jan 07): $0.09057 $0.09359 $0.09734 $0.10067 $0.09818 $0.09923 $0.09480 $0.08478 $0.09748 $0.07717 $0.07124...

In my experience, the only change has been the amount of dividends which is qualified.

Good point, thanks. Main thing is, I thought I could only deduct half of my meals if doing it this way, but maybe I'm wrong. Also, I may not have all the receipts (since I sent them to client for the reimbursement), but I guess that only matters if audited.

Maybe so, but I read the relevant IRS document differently. The talked about the expenses being "accountable" or some such, meaning if I justfified them tomy client (with receipts and such) then the client should not report them on the 1099.