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- From: fajack@cc.usu.edu
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: eliminate the broker for mutual funds?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.100726.63154@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 10:07:26 MDT
- References: <1jpivrINN3av@uwm.edu> <1993Jan23.201802.12292@twg.com>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <1993Jan23.201802.12292@twg.com>, sawyer@twg.com (Bruce B. Sawyer) writes:
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- > My suggestion to you would be to place a toll-free call to either...
- > Dreyfus Family of Funds at 1-800-221-4060 or
- > T. Rowe Price at 1-800-225-5132 or
- > Vanguard at 1-800-662-2739 or
- > Twentieth Century Investments at 1-800-345-2021.
- > Tell them you want a starter kit with an overview of the funds they offer.
- > ALL of them offer a wide range of mutual funds which have no brokerage
- > commission and can be opened for a very small amount of money. Likewise,
- > the amount of successive investments can be as small as $100. All of these
- > offer telephone switching privileges, so that for the of making another
- > 800 call you can move back and forth between stock/bond funds and money market
- > funds.
- I just want to point out that you need at at least $3000 to open
- Vanguard and T. Rowe Price account. I do not consider that small amount of
- money.
- Overall, I agree that it is not worthwhile to have a broker to open a
- mutual fund account. All you need is one that meet your investment criteria.
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- Jack Teh
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