Best 18 quotes in «mutual fund quotes» category

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term - is that fund managers have been passive participants in corporate governance.

A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions.

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

The fund scandals shined the spotlight on the fact that mutual fund managers were putting their interests ahead of the fund shareholders who trusted them, which had much more substantial consequences in the form of excessive fees and the promotion - as the market moved into the stratosphere - of technology funds and new economy funds which were soon to collapse.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

True love is unconditional. And if it is a 'Conditions Apply' scenari, then it isn't true love. It is as good as a mutual fund.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.