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It is not enough to say that particular mutual funds have very excessive and most excessive expense ratios. In addition, these high cost funds are associated with negative portfolio characteristics that include more risky and less diversified portfolios, higher trading costs and lower earnings....
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For investor and institutional class index mutual funds that track the S&P 500 Index, there are just 25 funds with statistically low expense ratios (management fee findings are found above). However, there are only five index funds - all investor class - with statistically very high and...
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For investor and institutional class index mutual funds that track the S&P 500 Index, there are just 25 funds with statistically low expense ratios (management fee findings are found above). However, there are only five index funds — all investor class — with statistically very high and...
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The basic purpose of this study is to test for the existence of an investment life cycle for individual common stock investors. It is hypothesized that the life-cycle theory of investment incorporates relevant socioeconomic attributes of individual investors, which, in various combinations,...
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The analysis reveals that the following relationships exist regarding risk-return behavior in independent (usually receives no help) versus consultative (usually receives help) investment decision making, One, investors who usually make consultative decisions are willing to accept a lower risk...
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This study extends previous inquiries concerning positive (as opposed to normative) aspects of common-stock investor behavior and provides preliminary empirical evidence on the association between risk/return preferences and expectations for specified investor attributes.Part I of the study...
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In summary, the ex ante evidence suggests strong preference relationships for the three sets of risk-return variables analyzed. Further, there appear to be differences among the nature and shape of the relationships as evidenced by the statistical tests: one, the association between risk and...
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