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- From: tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (gozdz,antoni s)
- Subject: Re: Daylight Robbery: GT Telecommunications Fund
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 20:24:36 GMT
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- In article <C1H3qJ.HxG@news2.cis.umn.edu> prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya Prabhakar) writes:
- > I recently chanced upon the prospectus of the GT Global Telecomm
- >Fund. This fund invests in companies around the world that have
- >a stake in the telcommunications revolution. I thought it is
- >a great way to play the globalization trend.
- >
- >Until I called them up to ask about their expenses.
- >
- >The fund charges 4.75% as sales charge on every single dollar
- >you invest into the fund. Further they have about 3.00% expenses
- >towards admin, 12b-1 and research. In total they squeeze the
- >investors for about 8% on their investments.
- >
- >Now, am I missing something or is this fund an exception to
- >the general load funds that levy the sales charge only on the
- >initial purchase.
- >
- >Satya Prabhakar
- >--
- >___________________________________________
- >Happiness, dear Phaedrus, is a passed pawn!
-
- Just a few points:
-
- 4.75% load is not out of line for load funds; just
- check any decent listing. In fact, there are quite a
- few funds that have >8% load (until recently, the famous
- Templeton World was one of them).
-
- 3% in expenses _is_ very high; yet almost everybody is
- in love with Kaufmann (3.6% annual expenses + 12b-1);
- as somebody posted here, it's the total return that
- counts, not what the manager earns.
-
- The bottom line is, nobody forces anybody to invest in
- a given fund. It's up to you to weed out the weaklings
- and the outrageous, and to invest in what you like.
-
- Tony
- tony2@cc.bellcore.com
-
-