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- From: mincy@think.com (Jeffrey Mincy)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Banner Fund International
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:24:52 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <1k3r0mINNhtj@hpfcbig.sde.hp.com> fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz) writes:
- >As an experiment I opened an account with Banner a few months ago.
- >(What the hell, it's only $200, right?) So far I'm not impressed.
- >It looks like the December return was about 1.4%. Less than 20%
- >per YEAR, not per MONTH.
-
- I hope you aren't seriously expecting 20% return per month. 20% per
- month means that your money goes up by a factor of 9 each year.
- The best mutual fund returns for 92 were in the 30-50% range.
-
- 20% per year is actually a pretty decent return.
-
- >Not sufficient return to justify such
- >a risky venture, in my opinion.
-
- If you aren't being rewarded for assuming extra risk then you probably
- shouldn't be assuming the risk. Of course it helps if you have a
- reasonable concept of reward.
-
- >If it turns out that December was a bad month, and the return is
- >actually much better than that, I'll let you now.
-
- I usually define a bad month as a month where goes down in value,
- or at least underperforms some other reasonable metric.
-
- >Gary
- --
-
- -- jeff
- mincy@think.com
-