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The investor's dilemma: how mutual funds are betraying your trust and what to do about it
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication Date
c2008
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mutual Funds: A Painful Birth
In the Beginning
A Good Idea
Cracks in the Good Idea
Chapter 2. Searching for Rational Investors in a Perfect Storm
A Perfect Storm
A Simple Survey
The Fortune 10 Test
The Performance Test
Value Investing: A Behavioral Finance Perspective
Chapter 3. The Anatomy of the Stock Market
The Stock Market
Chapter 4. Investing at Warp Speed
Sell It All Every Year?
Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund
Investing Blind
Chapter 5. Greed Is Good: The Appeal of a Publicly Owned Fund Management Company
T. Rowe Price
Profitability
How to Make 80 Percent a Year without Breaking the Law
Conflicts of Interest
Grow the Assets
Who's Watching the Store?
The Greed Factor
Candor Becomes a Casualty
Form over Substance: Shame on the SEC
The Failure of Candor Runs Deep
As Good as It Gets?
Chapter 6. The Investor's Dilemma: Long on Life Expectancy, Short on Income, and Searching for Guidance
A Crisis of Moral Imagination
How the Other Half Lives...
Everyone Agrees: We Are Frightfully Poor Investors
And Now a Word from Pogo...
What Pogo Forgot
Of Bubbles and Swans
Are You a Patient Investor?
Chapter 7. The Industrialization of Mutual Funds
Margin of Safety
Economy of Scale
How the Marketing of Mutual Funds Came to Look like Soap
Franklin Resources-A Study in Economies of Scale
Industrialization
Retailers, That's Where the Money Is
The Death of Security Analysis
Asset Allocation
Rebalance My Portfolio ... You Said What?
A Witch's Brew
About Those Benchmarks ...
Wrapping Up the Benchmarks
Managing by Rote Can Hurt ... Badly
Chapter 8. Through a Window ... Darkly
The First Story behind Those Numbers
Multiclass Fund Shares
Now Here's a Stealthy Way to Influence a Broker's Advice
"Soft Dollars"?-Hey, That's My Hard Cash
Revenue Sharing
Corruption by Committee: The Story Gets Worse
Devious and Deceptive?
What's Missing from the Disclosures?
Some Particulars
Boards of Directors: Watchdogs or Lapdogs?
Some Unresolved Questions
Chapter 9. How to Pick a Mutual Fund
An Overview
Back to Pogo ... and You!
Buy a Mutual Fund?
The Good Funds Fairly Shout Out Their Strengths
What to Look for in a Stock Fund
Price and Value
Index Funds
Two Stock Funds
Notes
Index
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9780470117651
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