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- From: gs38@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Gopalakrishnan Subramaniam)
- Subject: Mutual Funds
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- I screened the mutual funds based on the last year and last 5 years
- returns. The following information may be of good use to you in
- making your investment decisions.
-
- [Fund types are designated as follows:- G = Growth GI = Growth & Income
- FS = financial S = target sector SG = small company growth TK = technology
- CV = convertible securities]
-
-
- CATEGORY I
- ---------
-
- FUNDS WHICH RETURNED AN AVERAGE OF 20% OVER THE LAST YEAR AND THE PAST 5 YEARS
-
- Only NO LOAD funds are given here.
-
- FUND NAME TYPE 1 yr 5yr RECOM. 800 number min. inv.
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Century shares FS 27 20 yes 321-1928 500
-
- FAM Value fund GI 25 23 yes don't know
-
- Financial-Invesco
- financial FS 27 27 yes 525-8085 250*
- leisure S 23 24 yes 525-8085 250*
-
- Skyline sp. eq. SG 42 25 yes 458-5222 1000**
-
- * may be 1000 in 1993.
- ** closed for new investors but a similar fund will be offered to new
- investors from Feb 1993. Recommendation is not for the new fund.
-
-
- CATEGORY II
- -----------
-
- FUNDS WHICH RETURNED AN AVERAGE OF 20% OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS BUT THEIR
-
- 1 YR RETURN IS BETWEEN 10% AND 20%
-
- Only NO LOAD funds are considered here.
-
- FUND NAME TYPE 1 yr 5 yr RECOM. 800 number
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Brandywine G 16 22 338-1579
-
- CGM cap. dev. G 18 23 yes 343-7104
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- Fidelity Advisor EqPG I G 10 27 544-8888
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- Financial-Invesco tech. TK 19 26 yes 525-8085
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- Kaufman SG 11 34 yes 237-0132
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- Meridian G 16 22 don't know
-
- Nicholas-NicholasII SG 17 20 414-272-6133
-
- Price Funds (T.Rowe Price) 638-5660
- New Am. G 10 21
- Sci. Tech. TK 19 25 yes
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- 20th Century Gift-trust G 18 25 yes 345-2021
-
-
- CATEGORY III
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-
- FUNDS WHICH RETURNED AN AVERAGE OF 30% OVER THE PAST 5 YEARS.
-
- FUND NAME TYPE 1 yr 5 yr RECOM. 800-num. Load
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kaufman SG 11 34 yes 237-0132 0%
-
- Vista - Growth&inc. GI 15 32 yes 348-4782 5%
-
- Financial-Invesco Health -14 31 no 525-8085 0%
-
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- CATEGORY IV
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-
- BEST FUNDS IN 1992:- FUNDS WHOSE RETURNS WERE MORE THAN 30%
-
- FUND NAME TYPE 1 yr 5 yr 800number Sales Load
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fidelity Select
- auto S 42 18 544-8888 3%
- finan FS 43 19 544-8888 3%
- reg.Banks FS 49 26 544-8888 3%
- S&L FS 58 23 544-8888 3%
- software TK 36 20 544-8888 3%
-
- GT Global Amer. G 32 20 548-9995 5%
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- John Hancock Spcl Eq. SG 30 28 225-5291 5%
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- John Hancock Freedom
- reg banks FS 47 24 225-5291 n.a.
-
- Mainst. GI 31 -- 5%
-
- Oakmark G 49 -- GROW-OAK 0%
-
- PaineWebber Reg.fin. FS 39 23 647-1568 n.a.
- reg. banks FS 38 - n.a.
-
- Parnsus G 37 19 999-3505 3%
-
- Regis Fund ICMSC SG 32 -- ---- 0%
-
- Rochester Funds- Conv. CV 31 14 716-383-1300 3%
-
- SIFE Trust FS 34 17 n.a.
-
- Skyline Spcl. Eq. SG 42 25 458-5222 0%
-
- Venture RPFGl. FS 34 - 279-0279 5%
-
- Note: n.a. not available. May not be available to new investors Or may be
- available through some special susbcriptions.
-
- CATEGORY V
- ---------
-
- Best fund groups
-
- 1. Janus Funds. Best funds are Janus Fund and Janus twenty. Janus twenty
-
- is closed for new investors. Janus Fund is conservative and perform well
- in a bear market. Fund's objective is growth. Telephone transfer facilities
- available for switching between funds or to safe money-market accounts.
- Minimum investment is 0 if you invoke automatic monthly investments of atleast
- 50 dollars. Otherwise min. invt. is 1000. All the funds are NO LOAD funds.
- Janus Fund has good rating in a bear market (Forbes)
- Tel. No.800-525-3713
-
- 2. Financial-Invesco.
- Probably the best NO Load fund group. Telephone switching possible.
- Minimum investment is 250 (may have changed to 1000 in 1993) per fund.
- They have sector funds like Health, technology, leisure, as well as other
- conservative funds to suit to every one's needs.
- My recommendations are financial, leisure, and technology sector funds.
- Conservative investors consider Industrial Income fund which invests mainly
- in dividend producing stocks. Also they have balanced funds and money market
- funds for safety.
- Tel. No. 800-525-8085
-
- 3. Fidelity Group.
- This group offers the large variey of funds. Some have load while some
- don't. Best funds are ContraFund (Contrarian Investing), OTC portfolio, and
- Low-Priced Stock fund. In the select sectors they have a wider spectrum of funds.
- There were four sector funds in the financial sector which appear in the previous
- category tables. Other sectors include energy, auto, env, communicatins, comp,
- etc. If you can predict which sector would do the best this group would suit
- very well as you can keep changing between various sectors as many times as you
- want. Sales load is 3%, but exchanging between funds is free except for a
- nominal charge (it is 7.50 per exchange if shares are held for 30 days, otherwise
- 0.75% of the exchange amount). minimum investment is usually is 2500, but 1000
- will keep your fund in operation (i.e. if your balance in the fund falls below
- 1000 they will close your fund and send the cash proceeds to you).
- Tel. No. 800-544-8888
-
- GENERAL COMMENTS.
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-
-
- Among the growth funds, I like Oakmark. They have 3 funds. Oakmark fund, Oakmark
- international, and money market. New funds with 150 to 200 million in assets they
- have lot of room to grow. I looked at their holdings and I am quite impressed.
- The fund does not limit to just small company stocks. minimum is 1000 per fund.
- no sales load. Tel. No. 800-GROW-OAK
-
- Best small company growth fund: Two funds stand out. Kaufman fund and Skyline
- spcl. equity. However read their prospectuses to see how they performed each
- year. Minimum for Kaufman fund is 1500. Skyline is closed for new investors
- but a new fund is in the offering.
-
- The following funds perform very well in bull and bear markets (Forbes)
- Century Shares 800-321-1928
- CGM capital dev. 800-343-7104
- Janus Fund fund 800-525-3713
-
- Nicholas -nicholas fund a conservative fund (ave. return 10% for 5 yrs)
- is a very low risk stock fund(source: Forbes). 414-272-6133. The small
- growth fund appearing in Category II is also administered by them.
-
- I prefer No Load funds. If you buy the funds directly you do not pay
- Broker commissions. For funds with huge sales loads it may or may not
- make a difference going through a broker For the broker may derive his
- commissions from the upfront sales load.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Verify the accuracy of the information before investing.
- Always read the prospectus carefully for hidden charges, turnover rate
- (prefer less than 100%), etc. Total expenses for the fund should be less
- than 2%.
-
- Comments welcome
-
- gs38@cunixf.columbia.edu
- or
- subram@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu
-
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