Personal Finance: How to pick a mutual fund
Quick ReadLook beyond the hype and evaluate investment products, like mutual funds, based on their structure and a portfolio's needs.
Photo credit: AP | When all the investment numbers start to blur, evaluate why you want to invest. (Feb. 17, 2012)
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Next month something very dramatic is going to happen to most stock mutual funds. In fact, it's already started to happen.
The dramatic event is this: Those funds will hit the three-year anniversary of the nadir of the market in March 2009. And that means their three-year-return numbers will start to look amazingly good.
Think I'm being hyperbolic? The most widely held mutual fund --...
