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Happy New Year to all from Thailand! :)

http://www.ipathetn.com/pdf/DJAIG_infosheet.pdf - it trades as an ETF(good for us aliens!), is backed by T-bills rather than TIPs, is cheaper than PCRIX(as the "e/r" includes the cost of the futures according to Larry Swedroe) and might hold a tax advantage as less/no income(?) but only capital...

Well my friend wanted a conservative portfolio and have access to US ETFs but not funds(Alien). He also wanted a super simple portfolio and income of around 4%. I came up with this: DVY 25%, PID 25%, TIP 25%, GIM 25% TIP was chosen over AGG as GIM holds little/none inflation guarenteed bonds...

That is about 0.1% or 1 out of every 1000 people on the planet. The number EXCLUDES primary residence. Ref: http://www.ml.com/media/48237.pdf being the 2005 Merril Lynch Wealth Report. I think it is a healthly reminder when we have all our scare-stories going on about how $1M will not be...

I am happily FIREd and am in need of a TV. Options range from picking up a used 25" TV for $120 to a new 42" wall mounted plasma/LCD screen. Also consider a used car(don't NEED it, but again a luxury). Being naturally LBYM minded I have a tough time pulling the tricker on the high end - (the...

2 (small) up days in the market while my portfolio went south.... :P Still beating the general market YTD though. Cheers!

I had a good discussion recently with Lancelot about cost of living in Thailand - he lives for about $1k/mth while my budget is about 1.5K/mth(more travel). None of us are making any sacrifices to live for this kind of money compared to our lifestyle in home country (besides living in Thailand...

YTD my base portfolio did about 3%. Commodities(11%), reits(again), EM debt as well as EM equity were the biggest winners, with my foreign developed bond fund PFUIX being down about 7% as it is not US $ hedged - a risk I am willing to continue to take. The welcome surprise for me was the...

As I currently am now in the distribution/withdrawal phase I have made some adjustments to my base portfolio - mainly giving it a bit more value twist (the EFA I had got changed into VTRIX one of my other holdings+VEIPX instead of the VTI+IJJ combo) and pursued lower e/r (The shift from EEM to...

Well I have done some homework on www.bupathailand.com and www.thaihealth.co.th but ended up with the more expensive www.goodhealthworldwide.com. On both thaihealth and the goodhealth homepages you can do instant quotes. I wanted a higher total coverage than Thaihealth had even on the most...

Another day like yesterday where GIM (now developed mkt 50%, EM debt 50% based latest Feb holding list) dips even though its sister TEI(100% EM debt) is up a couple of %. Since both run by Templeton one must assume same EM debt being picked (have not checked yet). They both hoover around the...

Never really saw this discussed before. What FIREd people have you met? Age/interests/how did they get there?/what are they spending their time on? Etc. The ones FIREd here already have told most of the above (but please repeat!). I met an American in Asia that FIREd at 38 with almost $600k...

Was again thinking the above question through and while some proudly will yell to the world "I am retired!" I would not feel comfortable doing so still being in my 30ties. Call me old fashioned :grin:. I would probably try to work a bit with offshore investments - with some good friends I have...