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  • I just don't like mutual funds. I think they're a rip-off. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted. -- Jim Cramer
  • Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. -- Ron Chernow
  • Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. -- Alex Berenson
  • Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. -- Scott D. Cook
  • The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. -- Ron Chernow
  • To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell. -- Suze Orman
  • Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. -- Ron Chernow
  • Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed. -- Alex Berenson
  • There were two qualities about the mutual funds of the 1920s that made them extremely speculative. One was that they were heavily leveraged. Two, mutual funds were allowed to invest in other mutual funds. -- Ron Chernow
  • What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. -- Ron Chernow
  • I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records. -- Jim Cramer
  • If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities. -- Uday Kotak
  • There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles. -- Jim Cramer
  • During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high position at some of the companies that were doing that, I knew that law would be useful. -- Robert Shapiro
  • Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds. -- Simon Mainwaring
  • I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons. -- Ron Chernow
  • I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results. -- Kenneth Fisher
  • The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund. -- Alex Berenson
  • And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street. -- Peter Schiff
  • Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%. -- Charles R. Schwab
  • Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors. -- Mark Hulbert
  • Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors. -- John C. Bogle
  • Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds -- Michael Steinhardt
  • Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors. -- David F. Swensen
  • Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management. -- Barry Ritholtz
  • Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts. -- Ralph Goodale
  • Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research. -- Peter Lynch
  • Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. -- Scott D. Cook
  • The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing. -- Tony Robbins
  • If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds. -- Peter Lynch
  • Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors. -- Joel Spolsky
  • Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud. -- Michael Lewis
  • When you diversify your mutual funds, you are diversifying something that is already diversified. Diversifying mutual funds is like taking high octane gasoline & adding water & then adding orange juice to it. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • [A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of households held nearly two-thirds of all such assets in 2013 -- Janet Yellen
  • Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether. -- Peter Lynch
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