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- From: pjweaver@ralvm29.vnet.ibm.com (Paul Weaver)
- Subject: Re: 10 Highest Yielding Dow Stocks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.141231.37536@watson.ibm.com>
- Sender: pjweaver@laettner.raleigh.ibm.com (Paul Weaver / 3-9097 (PJWEAVER@RALVM29) D30A/061)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:12:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.020028.1483@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, pmd@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Phil Dickens) writes:
- |> I have been interested in the idea of buying the 10 highest
- |> yielding Dow stocks and holding for a year. Unfortunately,
- |> I don't have the cash to buy 100 shares (or any reasonable
- |> facsimile thereof) of each such stock. My question is this:
- |> Merill Lynch has a fund which does buy the 10 top yielding Dow
- |> stocks and I could buy a piece of that. Of course the drawback
- |> is the 2.75% sales charge, plus some unclear (to me anyway)
- |> "management charges" (I think on the order of .1%).
- |> Does this sales charge seem unreasonable to fellow netters??
- |> Is there some other fund that does this for a lot less??
- |> Does this idea seem reasonable??
- |>
- |> Any comments greatly appreciated.
- |>
- |> Thanks,
- |>
- |> Phil Dickens
-
- 2.75% is probably considered a low-load fund. I thought most of the ML funds
- charged more on the order of 8.5% though?? The management fee is probably more
- on the order of 1%, and nearly all funds have fees of this order.
-
- If you are simply looking for a fund that is income producing, I would instead
- look for a no-load fund from 20th Century, Fidelity, Vanguard, etc. You don't
- need to have the top 10 Dow stocks in order to produce good income. And in fact,
- you'll probably do better without them.
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