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- From: lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib)
- Subject: Re: Index funds
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:10:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.161050.19855@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <185067@pyramid.pyramid.com> jmuth@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (John Muth) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.190354.9575@mobil.com> etpeters@dal.mobil.com (E. T. Peterson(Eric)) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan18.212330.4527@news.eng.convex.com>, Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.COM> writes:
- >>
- >>|> An index fund always will trail its index
- >>|> because the fund has expenses and must retain cash on hand, but the
- >>|> index doesn't.
- >>
- >>A small point:
- >>"Cash on hand" will cause the index fund to do better than the index
- >>during a year in which the index declines.
- >
- >I doubt it. An index fund, by definition, attempts to stay fully invested
- >in whatever market the index covers. Any cash on hand is so small compared
- >to the equities that, even in a declining market, the income from the cash
- >won't cover the fund expenses. Therefore the index fund will STILL trail
- >the index.
-
-
- What about dividends? An index goes down when dividends are declared
- and the stocks go ex so the money is kind of "lost" however an index
- fund presumably re-invests this money (or distributes) it so as far
- as the investors are concerned the money isn't lost.
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