Now that I use debt to finance hard assets like income property, I fell like I have something better to safeguard
my family than mutual funds.
Not exact matches
Glass Lewis customers collectively manage nearly $ 8 trillion and include more
than half of the top 15
mutual fund families *, more
than half of the top 15 institutional money managers * and more
than half of the top 15 public pension
funds.
Rather
than setting up
mutual funds as separate trusts, they can be organized as a corporation that includes a
family of
funds under the same umbrella.
So, time now for something of a follow - up to my suggestion of a year ago that a
family unit should own no more
than ten
mutual funds.
According to legendary investor John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard
mutual fund family, dividends have provided more
than 40 % of the total return of equities for the last 40 years.
ProShares is part of the $ 25 billion ProFunds Group, the world's largest manager of short and leveraged ETFs and
mutual funds.1 ProFunds Group also includes the family of more than 100 ProFunds mutual funds and manages the Canada - based Horizons BetaPro F
funds.1 ProFunds Group also includes the
family of more
than 100 ProFunds
mutual funds and manages the Canada - based Horizons BetaPro F
funds and manages the Canada - based Horizons BetaPro
FundsFunds.
One longtime
fund director, at a smaller
fund family, pulls in more
than $ 1 million a year overseeing some 170
mutual funds.
Some possibilities: Warren Buffett, David Swensen, Other great investors, Insiders, Hedge
funds,
Family offices, Retail investors who buy / sell stocks rather
than mutual funds.
ProShare Capital Management is part of ProFunds Group, which includes the
family of 64 other short and leveraged ProShares ETFs, as well as ProFunds, which offers more
than 115 ProFunds
mutual funds.
They haven't been able to do one thing of value better
than competing
families of
mutual funds for a long time - and they more
than likely never will again.
Just the fact that they don't close their bloated
mutual funds is proof that they care more about maximizing their income at the
family level,
than getting above average investment performance for their
fund shareholders.
These are things most
fund families do, but they excel at enticing Registered Representatives to sell more of their
mutual funds than any other
mutual fund family.
As financial advisors increasingly adopt ETFs, the wholesale shift from actively managed
mutual funds to passive investment vehicles is driving more inflows to ETF providers like Vanguard and Blackrock and State Street and
than all other
mutual fund families combined... and leading
mutual fund companies into a mad scramble to figure out what they have to do to once again appeal to financial advisors.
My Broker Dealer and wholesaler and sales manager all very much want me to use them, I'm too lazy to maintain a supply of
mutual fund prospecti or learn the paperwork for more
than one
mutual fund family, and they have the fanciest sales brochures to help me close the most deals.
From the investor's point of view, there isn't anything American
Funds has or does better
than any other
mutual fund family.
Advisors that use more
than one
mutual fund family, because they want better investment performance for their clients, are usually left out of these parties.
Josh Shores, CFA is senior analyst and principal with Southeastern Asset Management, a value - oriented investment firm managing more
than $ 30 billion in assets, including the highly regarded Longleaf
family of
mutual funds.