A better headline might be: Whitebox Getting
Out of Mutual Fund Business.
Not exact matches
The author, Fraser Smith, is a Vancouver - based financial planner, who devised the eponymous strategy to take advantage
of the fact that while the interest paid on a mortgage for a personal residence is not tax - deductible, any interest on a loan taken
out to make investments (in
mutual funds or stocks or a private
business) is deductible.
Like almost all his contemporaries, De Goey started
out selling
mutual funds with deferred sales charges, but later become one
of the early adopters
of the fee - based, no - commission
business model.
He calls the
mutual fund business «fat and flabby» and is
out to actually do something about the sorry state
of affairs with Steadyhand:
As it was, my buddy decided to follow through with cashing
out the stock
mutual funds in his retirement accounts (closed at the end
of the
business day on Monday), only to have the stock market roar back nearly 5 % the next day.
Investors have the right to redeem or switch
out of an affected
mutual fund class up to the close
of business prior to the effective date
of termination and will not be required to pay any redemption fees, sales charges or other fees associated with the class termination.
However, having worked for two firms which went
out of business and after I was married and had my child, I found I had little time to spend on valuating individual stock purchases and moved to investing, via ACH and monthly, in low - expense
mutual funds (Vanguard, Schwab, Fidelity, etc.).
If it's a stock or ETF that is easily market traded, the investor may be
out for no more than literally mere seconds; for a
mutual fund, the investor will generally be
out for 1 day (as
mutual fund companies may not know how to handle a buy and sell order that both arrive at the
mutual fund on the same day at the close
of business!).
If Vanguard went
out of business, what would happen to an investor who owned Vanguard
mutual funds?
Or their relationship is new, and the life company wants to send the
mutual fund family as much new
business as possible during the honeymoon phase, so they won't get buyer's remorse, and back
out of their selling agreement.
Considering the variety
of proposals floated recently to restrict money market
mutual funds, one need not be paranoid to think that people at some government agencies really want to put MMFs
out of business.
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