Jeff DeMaso

461 posts

IVA Research

In The Mixing Bowl

Our Portfolios follow a simple recipe: Partnership with the best that Vanguard has to offer and patience with the vagaries of the markets. The results of that recipe can be found on the Model Portfolio tab. Of course, Dan and I have tweaked the recipe’s ingredients—the individual funds

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Weekly Brief

Day Trading Is Hard

A potential path for inflation | Vanguard fired TimeSquare from International Explorer

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Less Can Lead To More

My recipe for investment success isn’t complicated: Partner with the best managers and funds that Vanguard has to offer, then try to keep from second-guessing yourself. That means, remain diversified, keep costs low (a given if you stick with Vanguard solely) and spend as much time in the markets

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Weekly Brief

Headlines Are Not Investment Advice

Supply chains back to normal | Ray Dalio's comments

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Corporates: Good or Evil?

Channeling my grandkids, it’s been a not so good, very, very bad year for bonds in 2022. As we know the bond market has been a source of much investor angst—to put it lightly—Jeff and I will continue to try and bring our perspective to questions you

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Quick Take

Manager Musical Chairs Continue at Vanguard

As investors question whether they should bother owning a foreign stock fund, Vanguard is raising big questions about one of its active options, International Explorer (VINEX).

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