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Posted: Thu 13:04, 22 Aug 2013 Post subject: hollister WHAT THE SEC REALLY THINKS ABOUT MUTUAL |
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These funds are also sold and managed on pure hype, short termtrading, and with key information withheld from the public. Allof these factors I teach finance students and investors toavoid! The industry confuses investors by focusing on pastperformance, which should not be a factor to consider. Manymutual funds are able [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] to cheat the public with excessive feesbecause investors don't understand how these big costs destroytheir [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] profit. Mutual funds have no interest in educatinginvestors because it is easier to hoodwink the ignorant!
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Let's go into the details of why non-indexed mutual funds aresuch a bad deal. When Arthur Levitt became the head of theSecurity Exchange Commission in 1993 he had to sell off all ofhis individual stocks so that people would not claim that he wasdoing any dirty inside dealing. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] He decided to put the cash fromselling off his stock portfolio into mutual funds.
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