Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors. — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%. — Charles R. Schwab Copy Share Image
Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Affected hundreds of thousands of ordinary Canadians who have invested in mutual funds that invest in income trusts. — Ralph Goodale Copy Share Image
In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
True love is unconditional. And if it is a 'Conditions Apply' scenari, then it isn't true love. It is as good as… — Ravinder Singh Copy Share Image
In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term -… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Maybe you'll take the cash out. So a credit card company or a bank that goes into the business of saying we're… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Rip Van Winkle would be the ideal stock market investor: Rip could invest in the market before his nap and when he… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“Simply switching to home-brewed coffee will save you an average of $64.48 per month (or $2 per day) or $773.80 per year.… — Benjamin P. Hardy Copy Share Image
Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't.… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Good news is extrapolated into strong market expectations which are often not realized. As important, investor expectations are negatively correlated with model-based… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change"… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
We need a federal government commission to study the way our financial services system is working - I believe it is working… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like… — Kevin Bales Copy Share Image
“Then came the so-called flash crash. At 2:45 on May 6, 2010, for no obvious reason, the market fell six hundred points… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street. — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will. — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors. — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image