Anonymous wrote:Which Berkshire mutual fund can you recommend?

BRK-A or BRK-B. You don’t need a mutual fund. This is what you should buy if you want to be invested but protected in a downside scenario.

Okay, I just need a place to park $100,000 this December within the TSP. I guess I could put it in the usual I or C funds in the main TSP, but I want to put in the mutual fund window. I feel like we are going to have a turbulent few years coming up economically, but still I am thinking about some of these tickers in the MFW:

VITAX. BTEKX. fselx. PSLDX PISIX, DFISX, VZICX, IVNQX, FNCMX or OTPSX

Does anyone have any mutual fund (not etf) tickers that are really great buy and hold long term they recommend???

Gold is a little better than Crypto. With gold you can make jewellery out of it where as Crypto is a string of digital numbers.

Anonymous wrote:Gold.

Gold is a ponzi scheme. What is it good for? It's a shiny metal that doesn't rust -- yeah that was important 500 years ago when people were enamored with shiny things and used them to create religious icons and coins and stuff, and there weren't many durable shiny things back then. It's 2025 and we have plenty of more valuable things and all this technology ... a piece of shiny metal has no value anymore. It doesn't pay any dividends like Ford Motor Co. or Pepsi. It's just a ponzi scheme where you buy it hoping to sell it to another sucker down the road.

I put my faith in blue chip stocks and safe U.S. government bonds.

Probably could have phrased my last point better. A TDF with a date closer to now is less risky, a TDF with a date 25 years from now will be more risky. And by risky I mean the allocation between equities and fixed income assets…like bonds.

This depends on your age. If you have many years before retirement, you want to pick an allocation you’re comfortable with and stick with it.

If you’re looking for a one and done, “silver bullet” like MF, you probably want a TDF. Pick the one that most resembles your risk tolerance and use that. They’re mostly the “same”, difference being a TDF closer to retirement year will be less risky.

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Anonymous wrote:Berkshire. Target Date Fund that rebalances regularly. Shifting more to cash. Perhaps investing in distressed debt funds.

How do you shift money to cash? Isn't Trump trying to do away with the FDIC?

If he does, then move to other short term debt instruments or money market funds or short term bonds from highly rated foreign countries.

Which Berkshire mutual fund can you recommend?

Anonymous wrote:Berkshire. Target Date Fund that rebalances regularly. Shifting more to cash. Perhaps investing in distressed debt funds.

How do you shift money to cash? Isn't Trump trying to do away with the FDIC?

Berkshire. Target Date Fund that rebalances regularly. Shifting more to cash. Perhaps investing in distressed debt funds.

Just find an asset allocation you’d be happy with in a down market and stick with it. Don’t even check your balances.

Gold.

Can anyone recommend some good tickers? The sugar high can’t last forever. Things are firing on all cylinders now, but I just get that feeling we are entering a recession sooner than later for a while.