After scratching my head a bit at
the sheer number of funds and attendant loads, annual expense ratios, and maintenance fees, I went through the exercise of establishing a comparable portfolio using only Vanguard index funds.
Not exact matches
Bill Coughran, a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital and a former Google senior vice president
of engineering, said the
sheer number of security startups receiving
funding makes it difficult for any one
of them to stand out.
We showed how it is practically impossible to make a «passive» choice given the
sheer number of index
fund options in almost every market segment.
In fact it rivals meat, egg and dairy industry
funded research papers for the
sheer number of errors and misleading statements.
But the
sheer mass
of indexes for which ETFs are available has exploded in size, with the
number of new indexes to track growing almost as quickly as the
number of new
funds that follow them.
No, that used to be the case but with the
sheer volume
of loans now only a very small
number of loans are being
funded quickly.
Shopping around for a mutual
fund can be a tall order when you consider the
sheer number of offerings and the quirks and nuances associated with each one.
«As we near our goal
of a no - kill nation by 2015, we are thrilled at the
sheer number of people who visited all
of the locations over the weekend,» said Maddie's
Fund president Rich Avanzino.
 I am time and again surprised by the creativity
of their
fund raising activities and events, and the
sheer number of events they hold.