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- From: gs38@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Gopalakrishnan Subramaniam)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Mutual Fund Expenses
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.194013.2478@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:40:13 GMT
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- Mutual fund sales loads and expenses
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- Not every fund charge heavy sales load on investments.
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- Look at my earlier posting on no load mutual funds with excellent returns.
- if you did not see it, let me know and i shall post it again.
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- Expenses: Usually for a big fund (assets over 1 billion) expenses should be
- 1% or less. For small funds it can be as much as 2.5%. However, when the
- fund reports its yearly returns it includes the expenses but excludes the
- sales load. Expenses cover market research, advertisement, admin., etc.
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- Turnover rate: This is another important factor to be considered in mutual
- fund investing. It measures the amount of trading the fund manager does each
- year. A turnover rate of 100% is equivalent to selling all the fund's assets
- and buying an equal amount of assets in the same or different stocks. More
- trading means the fund manager changes his opinions on the stocks too often
- OR he is generating commissions for his brokerage. Either way it is bad for
- the fund holders. Good funds have turnover rates less than 100%. However,
- adverse market conditions can force higher turnover rates.
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- Sales load, expenses, and turnover rates play a major role in bear markets
- and a lesser but still a significant role in bull markets.
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- Look at the fund's performance in 1987 and 1990 to get an idea of the bear
- market performance of the fund. Be sure to deduct any upfront sales load.
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