Mutual Fund Quotes

• Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

  Peter Lynch

  People, Perfect, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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

  Peter Lynch

  Homework, Stomach, Equity

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Decision, Training

  Venita VanCaspel (1978). “The new money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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

  John C. Bogle

  Roles, Investors, Principal

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

  Charles R. Schwab

  Investing, Investment, Index Funds

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• There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

  Benjamin Graham

  Responsibility, Investing, Shame

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

  Ron Chernow

  Responsibility, Safety, Individual

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

  David F. Swensen

  Investing, Return, Fees

  "Yale’s Swensen Says Index Funds Best Plan for Most Investors" by Kelly Bit, www.bloomberg.com. January 31, 2012.

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• There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Accountability, Wealth

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• How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or savings accounts? Income property is the most historically proven asset class in America, if not the entire world. I rest my case.

  Jason Hartman

  Class, America, Income

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• Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

  Ron Chernow

  Boys, People, Giving

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

  Tony Robbins

  Scary, Failing, Truth Is

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Retirement, Government, Ideas

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

  Suze Orman

  Fund, Mutual, Sells

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• Mutual funds charge 2% per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another 3-4 percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals. I think it's disgusting. It's much better to be part of a system that delivers value to the people who buy the product. But if it makes money, we tend to do it in this country.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Thinking, Years

  Charlie Munger's comments on business and investing topics at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 1, 2004.

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• The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

  Ron Chernow

  Safety, Workplace, Argument

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

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Matter, Ability, Trade

  "Justice Delayed". FTSE Global Markets, May/June 2005.

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

  John C. Bogle

  Witchcraft, Built, Has Beens

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.440, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Michael Steinhardt

  Horrible, Firm, Customers

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

  Ron Chernow

  People, Relentless, Industry

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

  Scott D. Cook

  Investing, Easy, Individual

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• Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

  William J. Bernstein

  Zero, Return, Doe

  William J. Bernstein (2002). “The Four Pillars of Investing”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Research, Ratios, Corporations

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• In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

  Paul Samuelson

  Past, Guarantees, Investing

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

  Mark Hulbert

  Alternatives, Investing, Rational

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