 Paul Merriman answers questions from FundAdvice visitors and listeners to the SoundInvesting radio show. Feel free to search our archive of questions, or submit a question to Paul!
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So many funds invest in the same "hot" companies, almost as if there were a Top
50 list, and have consequently produced high returns. Isn't this risky for investors? |
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How important is the portfolio turnover rate of a fund? |
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What is the P/E ratio, and is it important to a mutual fund investor? |
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I have been doing mutual fund research on the Internet and I have
found Strong Funds. I wonder if these are good funds. I do not have a
lot of money to invest each month and I’d like to invest it wisely. I
know Strong has two new funds, focusing on Internet and technology
stocks, and I was considering investing in them. What do you think? |
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Q. Where should my IRA money be invested? There are so many choices that it's hard to figure out.
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I’m 56 years old and work for a public school district, from which I
expect to retire in about 10 years. I have IRAs worth about $73,000 in
B-class shares in six funds with deferred loads and high expense
ratios. I wonder if I should sell them (and simply take the loss by
paying the exit loads) and invest in no-load funds with lower expenses.
These funds were chosen for me by a bank, and as I later learned more
about mutual funds I realized I had made a big mistake of going to the
bank for advice. I purchased three funds in June 1996: MFS Emerging
Growth (megbx), Putnam Growth & Income (pgibx) and AIM Value
(avlbx). The other three, Alliance Premier Growth (apgbx), Alliance
Technology (atebx) and Putnam Voyager (pvobx), I bought last January.
Alliance Premier Growth has an expense ratio of 2.18 percent and
Alliance Technology’s ratio is 2.38 percent. Expenses of the other
three funds are each over 1.5 but less than 2 percent. What should I do? |
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I just became a grandmother, and I want to set up a Roth IRA for my
grandson to save for his college days. I don’t know where to start. Can
you advise me? |
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How do fund managers determine how many stocks to hold in their portfolios? |
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How important is the experience of a mutual fund manager? |
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What percentage of one's portfolio should be invested in mutual funds? |
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