Jeff DeMaso

540 posts

Quick Take

Out of the Oven

Vanguard has decided that after 15 months in the oven, Multi-Sector Income (VMSIX and VMSAX) is ready to eat. Vanguard seeded the global income fund with $25 million when they launched it in October 2021 but didn’t allow outside investors to participate—until now. Yesterday, I was scratching my

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Weekly Brief

Big Tech in The Crosshairs

Dept. of Justice sues Google | Municipal money market yield update | Mutli-Sector Income's special distribution

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IVA Research

Growth Stocks Being Marked Down

FUNDS FOCUS — LARGE GROWTH FUNDS

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Quick Take

Weathering Government Shutdowns

With the U.S. government’s finances bumping up against the debt ceiling, I’m (not surprisingly) hearing from concerned investors on both sides of the political aisle asking what this means for our investments. First, we’ve been here before. And it’s important to recognized that we’ve

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Weekly Brief

Vanguard’s Service Still Stagnant

The 60/40 portfolio lives | Inflation check-in | Vanguard service issues | Beware phishing attempts

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IVA Research

Big Index Fund Fails?

The Morningstar headline grabbed me. “Why Are These Big Index Funds Underperforming?” By definition index funds, if they’re doing their jobs properly, don’t outperform or underperform. They simply match their benchmarks less a bit for their expenses. Generally, when talking about outperformance or underperformance it’s active funds

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