Ifund$

[nitehawk42]

10/12/07
The EAFE was up $1.02 yet the I Fund was up only $.04. What is with this?

 

[Minnow]

what's up Nitehawk... welcome to the message board....

do some digging about fair valuation through the I fund sheet on tsp.gov and then refer to the many discussions throughout 350zCommTech's I fund thread (he does one each month) about the phenomenon known as fair valuation. We all have a little fun on that thread trying to figure how much Barclay's will take from us on the days when the market drops after 11:30am eastern time but generally 350z will nail it (he missed by just little today but usually he or SCHAGAN or a couple of others are very close if not dead on).

btw, when you understand and can deal with fair valuation completely, it'll be time to retire

 

[not_too_shabby]

As said by Minnow, you need to learn about fair valuation.

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Originally Posted by squalebear
I want to learn more about "Fair Valuation". Any links come to mind?

We seperated out a couple of conversations that expalin the FV process for exactly this purpose:

http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/showthread.php?t=3868

http://www.tsptalk.com/mb/showthread.php?t=3111

 

[Wildboar53]

Please correct me if i state this wrong ----

The EAFE doesnt show dollars up. It shows a percentage up (or down as this afternoon dived). That 1.02% amounts to $0.26 . then you throw the -FV at it and you end up with a 4 cent gain day.
Which is better than the 3 cent loss yesterday.