 | | | 
09.04.2020, 14:01
| Forum Veteran | | Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Zürich
Posts: 931
Groaned at 16 Times in 14 Posts
Thanked 794 Times in 428 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | how does one follow the "all days" strategy? by investing the same amount every day? then how does one know how long one should ration the amount per day to invest?
I remember you once also said that DCA is also not good. | | | | | That's simply too much work, and the transaction fees would eat up your potential profits.
That simulation of "all days" is extreme, I would prefer (i.e. it would be more realistic) if it was something like "on the 1st of each month buy for x money".
In practice: Just put in a lump sum at the start ( statistically it's a better decision than DCA in 2/3 of the cases; yet we are emotional beings and it might be "easier to stomach" to split that up into several chunks and buy gradually).
And keep on adding monthly-or-so savings into the fund (which is essentially another form of DCA).
That is, if your intention is "buy & hold".
| This user would like to thank gipfelisturmer for this useful post: | | 
09.04.2020, 16:48
| Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: GR
Posts: 463
Groaned at 21 Times in 17 Posts
Thanked 150 Times in 128 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | Because I think the current market is overvalued, and the movement is not making sense. Production is reduced, people are not spending money, jobs are lost, and the virus situation is not under controlled. If we are not entering another leg down and a recession, I am happy to be on the wrong side of it. | | | | | Stocks were oversold hence they bounced back. This happened during the crash of 1929 as well. After 30 months they were at -86% from the top. This corona thing has a long way to go I am afraid.
| 
09.04.2020, 22:04
|  | Forum Legend | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Verbier
Posts: 21,365
Groaned at 461 Times in 352 Posts
Thanked 23,091 Times in 11,824 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | Stocks were oversold hence they bounced back. This happened during the crash of 1929 as well. After 30 months they were at -86% from the top. This corona thing has a long way to go I am afraid. | | | | | Actually for a stock picker the next 2 years will produce amazing opportunities, index funds will do poorly due to holdings in everything, so many business's will suffer Airlines, Banks & some manufactures. Car insurance will be insanely profitable for the first time in many decades as people hardly use their cars but have paid the normal premium.
| 
09.04.2020, 22:26
| Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: GR
Posts: 463
Groaned at 21 Times in 17 Posts
Thanked 150 Times in 128 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | Actually for a stock picker the next 2 years will produce amazing opportunities, index funds will do poorly due to holdings in everything, so many business's will suffer Airlines, Banks & some manufactures. Car insurance will be insanely profitable for the first time in many decades as people hardly use their cars but have paid the normal premium. | | | | | It is still too early to say if stocks will be the best investment and which stocks will be winners.
| 
10.04.2020, 09:44
|  | Forum Legend | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Verbier
Posts: 21,365
Groaned at 461 Times in 352 Posts
Thanked 23,091 Times in 11,824 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | It is still too early to say if stocks will be the best investment and which stocks will be winners. | | | | | Stocks have always been the best investment over the long hall by a huge margin. The 20th Century was amazing, let's recap, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, 2 World wars.........
| This user would like to thank fatmanfilms for this useful post: | | 
10.04.2020, 12:16
| Forum Legend | | Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SG
Posts: 10,854
Groaned at 720 Times in 527 Posts
Thanked 14,865 Times in 7,783 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | how does one follow the "all days" strategy? by investing the same amount every day? then how does one know how long one should ration the amount per day to invest?
I remember you once also said that DCA is also not good. | | | | | Careful when listening to investment advice from anonymous strangers on the interwebs. You're not going to get screwed on this forum but that doesn't make every opinion valid or suitable for your situation, honest as it probably is.
At the end of the day only you can decide. That's why you want to arm yourself at least with fundamental investment knowledge to weed out at least most of the chaff. Read a book or three and read a financial newspaper for a few years.
And do mind those bloody recurring costs, it's the only thing you know with certainty about the future.
| The following 3 users would like to thank Urs Max for this useful post: | | 
10.04.2020, 12:20
|  | Forum Veteran | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: thun
Posts: 2,450
Groaned at 70 Times in 48 Posts
Thanked 3,254 Times in 1,580 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | . . . Car insurance will be insanely profitable for the first time in many decades as people hardly use their cars but have paid the normal premium. | | | | | Those insurance companies which have nice firewall between their car insurance business and their holiday cancellation insurance business might do well.
| 
10.04.2020, 13:52
| Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: GR
Posts: 463
Groaned at 21 Times in 17 Posts
Thanked 150 Times in 128 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | Stocks have always been the best investment over the long hall by a huge margin. The 20th Century was amazing, let's recap, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, 2 World wars......... | | | | | You are missing the point. They are not the same stocks.
| 
10.04.2020, 14:04
|  | Moderately Dutch | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Zurich
Posts: 13,218
Groaned at 422 Times in 358 Posts
Thanked 18,010 Times in 8,211 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | You are missing the point. They are not the same stocks. | | | | | What stock is he refering to??? I do not see any mentioning of stocks.
For me there are a couple of points: someone who managed to retire early and live off his investments, seems to me a creditable source :-)
Secondly: unless you can trade real time, you will almost never be on time.
So for me, thirdly, I just invest every month something. Yes, one month less stock, the next month more. Over time it has built me a nice portfolio.
Working in the financial sector I know that I do not know it all..... | The following 4 users would like to thank roegner for this useful post: | | 
10.04.2020, 14:42
|  | Forum Legend | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Verbier
Posts: 21,365
Groaned at 461 Times in 352 Posts
Thanked 23,091 Times in 11,824 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | Those insurance companies which have nice firewall between their car insurance business and their holiday cancellation insurance business might do well. | | | | | I doubt the holiday insurance will do too badly either , Covid 19 will unlikely be covered, the person won't go on holiday & the insurance keeps the premium.
| 
10.04.2020, 15:49
| Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: GR
Posts: 463
Groaned at 21 Times in 17 Posts
Thanked 150 Times in 128 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | What stock is he refering to??? I do not see any mentioning of stocks.
For me there are a couple of points: someone who managed to retire early and live off his investments, seems to me a creditable source :-)
Secondly: unless you can trade real time, you will almost never be on time.
So for me, thirdly, I just invest every month something. Yes, one month less stock, the next month more. Over time it has built me a nice portfolio.
Working in the financial sector I know that I do not know it all.....  | | | | | Most companies cease to exist after 10-20-30-40 years. My point is that they are not the same companies that survived WWII, not the same companies you would buy in the 80s or the 90s. Most companies we buy today they went public after 2000 (mostly technology stocks that lift the markets).
| 
10.04.2020, 15:51
| Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: GR
Posts: 463
Groaned at 21 Times in 17 Posts
Thanked 150 Times in 128 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | What stock is he refering to??? I do not see any mentioning of stocks.
For me there are a couple of points: someone who managed to retire early and live off his investments, seems to me a creditable source :-)
Secondly: unless you can trade real time, you will almost never be on time.
So for me, thirdly, I just invest every month something. Yes, one month less stock, the next month more. Over time it has built me a nice portfolio.
Working in the financial sector I know that I do not know it all.....  | | | | | Indeed but we are in a bull market that started in 1982.
| This user groans at wantone for this post: | | 
10.04.2020, 16:02
|  | Forum Legend | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Verbier
Posts: 21,365
Groaned at 461 Times in 352 Posts
Thanked 23,091 Times in 11,824 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | Most companies cease to exist after 10-20-30-40 years. My point is that they are not the same companies that survived WWII, not the same companies you would buy in the 80s or the 90s. Most companies we buy today they went public after 2000 (mostly technology stocks that lift the markets). | | | | | As this is the Fundsmith thread, I will point out the average company held in the portfolio was founded in 1928 so 92 years ago, so please do some research rather than spamming the thread with irrelevant information.
| 
10.04.2020, 17:51
| Senior Member | | Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: GR
Posts: 463
Groaned at 21 Times in 17 Posts
Thanked 150 Times in 128 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | As this is the Fundsmith thread, I will point out the average company held in the portfolio was founded in 1928 so 92 years ago, so please do some research rather than spamming the thread with irrelevant information. | | | | | ok you have a point here. as I don't have time to look at the investments of this money manager I am not going to post in this thread anymore.
Good luck.
| 
10.04.2020, 18:11
|  | Moderately Dutch | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Zurich
Posts: 13,218
Groaned at 422 Times in 358 Posts
Thanked 18,010 Times in 8,211 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | ok you have a point here. as I don't have time to look at the investments of this money manager I am not going to post in this thread anymore.
Good luck. | | | | | Nobody forces you. But even risk managers can learn something :-)
| The following 2 users would like to thank roegner for this useful post: | | 
19.04.2020, 16:21
|  | Forum Legend | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Verbier
Posts: 21,365
Groaned at 461 Times in 352 Posts
Thanked 23,091 Times in 11,824 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | The following 5 users would like to thank fatmanfilms for this useful post: | | 
19.04.2020, 20:08
| Forum Veteran | | Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Zürich
Posts: 931
Groaned at 16 Times in 14 Posts
Thanked 794 Times in 428 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | FF, have you ever attended in person?
| 
19.04.2020, 20:26
|  | Forum Legend | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Verbier
Posts: 21,365
Groaned at 461 Times in 352 Posts
Thanked 23,091 Times in 11,824 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | FF, have you ever attended in person? | | | | | I was thinking about it this year as I was in the UK for a wedding on 29 February but something else cropped up so I could not go early.
| 
21.04.2020, 15:13
| Senior Member | | Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Port-Valais (was SFO)
Posts: 449
Groaned at 5 Times in 3 Posts
Thanked 327 Times in 182 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question
Just watched the video of the February AGM. Left wondering what Julian Robins (now a US citizen) is doing about PFIC and US income tax.
| 
21.04.2020, 15:44
|  | Forum Legend | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Verbier
Posts: 21,365
Groaned at 461 Times in 352 Posts
Thanked 23,091 Times in 11,824 Posts
| | Re: Another fundsmith question | Quote: | |  | | | Just watched the video of the February AGM. Left wondering what Julian Robins (now a US citizen) is doing about PFIC and US income tax. | | | | | Julian Roberts has lived in the US for many years. FS do have a fund for US Citizens &residents so possibly he invests via that. He is also a partner in the LLP.
He has been resident in the US since the start of Fundsmith, this is confirmed by the 2010 incorporation found here https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk
Fundsmith LLP, then filing history page 2 at the bottom
| The following 2 users would like to thank fatmanfilms for this useful post: | |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Thread Tools | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | All times are GMT +2. The time now is 06:39. | |