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- From: tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (gozdz,antoni s)
- Subject: Re: Mutual Funds Fees - 12b-1s, in particular
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 13:08:49 GMT
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- In article <1efiomINNge8@agate.berkeley.edu> braver@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Braverman) writes:
- >All other things being equal, if I'm trying to decide between two
- >mutual funds, A and B, whose total annual fund operating expenses
- >are the same, but fund A doesn't charge 12b-1 Fees, whereas fund B
- >does, is there any reason to prefer A over B or vice-versa? That is,
- >as an investor, am I only interested in to bottom line operating
- >expenses (which already include any 12b-1 fees, if any), or does the
- >presence of 12b-1 fees have some hidden sinister consequences?
- >
- >thanks for the info,
- >
- >Michael Braverman
- >braver@cs.berkeley.edu
-
- Except that they subtract those fees year after year
- after year from your investments and provide little or
- nothing in return (read commentaries in Morningstar),
- no, there are no sinister consequences...
- BTW, Founders attempts to impose those damn fees on
- Founders Special, vote NO!!!
-
- Tony
-