Mutual Fund Quotes

The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

True love is unconditional. And if it is a 'Conditions Apply' scenari, then it isn't true love. It is as good as a mutual fund.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

Without getting into brothels, there are ethical capitalists the problem is that there aren't enough of them. It is not "just a few bad apples" that have been evident in our corporations, our investment bankers and our mutual funds, but so many that one has to concede that the barrel itself needs some work.

The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.

Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

I believe Washington should be a more active participant focusing on the issue of why corporate shareholders and mutual fund shareholders are not given fair treatment by corporate management and mutual fund management. We need to develop a national standard of fiduciary duty to ensure that these agents, if you will, are adequately representing the principles - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund shareholders - whom they are duty bound to serve.

Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term - is that fund managers have been passive participants in corporate governance.

The fund scandals shined the spotlight on the fact that mutual fund managers were putting their interests ahead of the fund shareholders who trusted them, which had much more substantial consequences in the form of excessive fees and the promotion - as the market moved into the stratosphere - of technology funds and new economy funds which were soon to collapse.