Why Mutual Fund Performance Figures Are Misleading

Topics:
Investment and Capital Markets
Tags:
Benefits,
Finance,
Human Resources,
Investment,
Merriman Capital Management,
Mutual Fund,
Mutual Funds,
Retirement Plans
Source:
Merriman Capital Management

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Overview: The article looks at the investment returns of mutual funds and show why many investors never get the returns quoted in advertisements and magazine articles. Thanks to government regulations, the return figures that funds are allowed to quote are now standardized throughout the industry. Yet one will see that those figures don't necessarily represent the real returns that real people get in the real world.

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