Comments on: What Exactly Do You Do with Something That Could Be the Deal of a Lifetime? http://thefinancebuff.com/what-exactly-do-you-do-with-something-that-could-be-the-deal-of-a-lifetime.html like a friend telling you about money ... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:31:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Pelon http://thefinancebuff.com/what-exactly-do-you-do-with-something-that-could-be-the-deal-of-a-lifetime.html#comment-1805 Pelon Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:39:06 +0000 http://thefinancebuff.com/2009/04/what-exactly-do-you-do-with-something-that-could-be-the-deal-of-a-lifetime.html#comment-1805 Something I always find amusing is to read a mutual fund manager's forecast for the coming year and then compare it to a horoscope reading. While they tend to talk about different subjects, the format is always the same. There are just enough positive and negative predictions to make the predictions at least partially correct. It sounds like the Vanguard experts are doing the same thing. In fairness, I would expect that a lot of this is due to lawyers. If a Vanguard guy comes out and says this is the best time to buy stocks, but the market goes down another 50%, someone could file a lawsuit. Something I always find amusing is to read a mutual fund manager’s forecast for the coming year and then compare it to a horoscope reading. While they tend to talk about different subjects, the format is always the same. There are just enough positive and negative predictions to make the predictions at least partially correct. It sounds like the Vanguard experts are doing the same thing.

In fairness, I would expect that a lot of this is due to lawyers. If a Vanguard guy comes out and says this is the best time to buy stocks, but the market goes down another 50%, someone could file a lawsuit.

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