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- From: jwg1@gte.com (James W. Gish)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Long-term invests for college stdnt?
- Message-ID: <JWG1.92Nov17134133@harvey.gte.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:41:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.184912.4038@memstvx1.memst.edu>
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- In-reply-to: langston@memstvx1.memst.edu's message of 12 Nov 92 00:49:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.184912.4038@memstvx1.memst.edu> langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:
- I'm not looking for advice on budget, saving, etc... I can find that anywhere
- and is too trivial...I can look it up myself. What I would like to know is,
- is there a cheap, easy way for someone on a very limited income to make long
- term investments in stocks and/or bonds? (I'm talking about someone who might
- have roughly $100.00 per month available...I _told_ you I was poor...that's
- 25% of my net monthly income)
- If there is such a way to invest, how would one go about getting involved
- in it? (by this, I mean, who do I send the money to and what do I tell 'em?)
-
- Any help would be appreciated... I'd actually like to have a somewhat
- financially trouble-free life...or at least be able to put some money
- somewhere where it'll draw morethan the 5% my savings account makes
-
- I recommend choosing some no-load, long-term growth mutual fund and
- setting up an automatic purchase plan from your checking account.
- Authorize the mutual fund company to withdraw $100/month from your
- account. This is about as "trouble-free" as you can get. It has the
- added advantage of "dollar-cost averaging", a fancy phrase that just
- means that you end up buying more shares when the cost per share (Net
- Asset Value, or NAV) is low and fewer shares when the NAV is high.
-
- Before you invest in anything however, you should have a cash reserve
- should some emergency arise. You wouldn't want to have to tap into
- your mutual fund holdings during an emergency if the NAV of your
- mutual fund was low.
-
- There are lots of publications out on choosing mutual funds.
- Morningstar is a mutual fund rating company that has a publication
- available at some libraries. Brokerages and mutual fund companies
- usually have free literature available upon request.
-
- Any recommendations out there for an intro to mutual fund picking? I
- can't think of any offhand.
- --
- Jim Gish (jgish@gte.com)
- Sr. Member of Technical Staff
- GTE Laboratories Inc.
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