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I would prefer a total stock market fund if it's going to be their only investment, but if it's the first of many funds I'd go with the S&P 500 Index Fund.


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Why not just walk over to Vanguard and buy the S&P 500 index fund?
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ED ROYCE We would fund the whole project with grants and funds.
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TODD CAMPBELL But if you move the money into offshore funds, this income will roll-up tax-free inside the fund.
JUSTIN MODRAY If you are holding a lemon, a once-hot fund, it's time to sell. Funds on the Lemon List are doing D-...
ED FOSTER You don't want a fund that had its best years with $5 million in assets.
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DAVID KATHMAN I'm very glad to see it close. We've been cautioning investors not to expect as much from it because...
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ROBERT ROBBINS For the first three years of its existence, the fund lost an average of 57% each year.
DAN LEFKOVITZ The aim of the S&P 500 is to emulate the entire market, not necessarily do better than the market. I...
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GREG CARLSON If those funds have a good, long-term record, you can stay within a fund family.
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GEORGE CHAN Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windo...
BARRY RITHOLTZ If things go right with fund-raising, all of this will be under construction this year.
FRED HAHN This is not a high-yielding fund relative to its category. The median yield of the utility funds we ...
DAVID KATHMAN We view this strategy as practical, both from an investment and time-to-market standpoint as reenter...
ROBERT DENNISON We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.
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LAWRENCE YORK Fund companies are increasingly looking at this as a retention tool. Perhaps its one way to keep you...
CHRISTINE BENZ We're seeing both real estate and hedge fund become more uncertain now, and if it's going to happen,...
CHARLES DE VAULX The stock market trend is surely up and the gains in the first three days this week have wiped out t...
AJIT SANGHVI Investors who had been less aware of mutual fund taxes had a rude awakening in 2000, when many funds...
DUNCAN RICHARDSON The concentration of stocks is concerning. An active fund manager would not put a portfolio together...
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SCOTT KAHAN A small fund won't have to exhaust its 'Varsity' list of stocks.
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KARI PINKERNELL Markets go up more than they go down. But it's been a ruthlessly declining stock market, so the fund...
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JAMES LANGE Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline.
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MELANIE SWAN It's not a tame fund. It goes its own way.
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TODD CAMPBELL If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its ...
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CRAIG ROSS Discrimination is on its face wrong. Funding it with state tax dollars is unacceptable. We feel that...
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AMBROSE BIERCE ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A m...
AMBROSE BIERCE YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the So...
AMBROSE BIERCE Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
AMBROSE BIERCE Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscie...
AMBROSE BIERCE One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was onc...
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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