Mutual Fund Advice
So I was looking at this one Fidelity Energy fund that is a great performer:
money.cnn.com/quote/mutualfund/mutualfund.html?symb=FSENX
It has a 4-star morningstar rating, and really good returns. There’s another fund of theirs I like, too:
money.cnn.com/quote/mutualfund/mutualfund.html?showpage=overview&osymb=FLSAX&sid=440152
It’s a 5-star high risk fund, but it seems pretty cool, and fairly diverse. Fidelity also seems like a great mutual fund company:
personal.fidelity.com/products/funds/?refhp=pr
Any thoughts, guys? I might take a 10-15% cut off my paychecks and auto-deposit it into a fund I set up, but I certainly could use some advice! ^_~
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Everyone seems to talk about Fidelity’s equity funds. Fidelity actually has some of the best fixed-income funds.
Michael Weiss
The Editor
The Mutual Fund Investor
http://www.mutualfundinvestor.net
The different types of mutual funds
If you want to buy a mutual fund, you have some choices to make. It’s kind of like the 50 kinds of toothpaste you can choose at Target. Except there are thousands of funds and we’re talking about your life savings. Anyway, you can pick a mutual fund of almost any imaginable type, based on many factors. For example, you could invest in a value fund, an emerging-markets fund, or a medical-device fund.
I recently decided to open an account to actively trade some stock. Not much, but enough to have some fun. There is a time and place for trading stocks. Your personality will drive your decision more than anything else.
Adam,
On 12/16/2005 the Fidelity Growth and Income FGRIX distributed dividends and capital gains to the fund owners. This causes the share price to drop sharply in one day. Your overall money is still safe.
http://personal.fidelity.com/products/funds/mfl_frame.shtml?316389204
Jamie
Paul,
My 401K is handled by Fidelity, and I noticed that on 12/16/2005 “FIDELITY GROWTH AND INCOME” FGRIX dropped by almost 10% in that one day. Even thought the market was very flat that day. How can that be? So much for security in mutual funds.
Thanks,
Adam
Hello Elliott,
Fidelity has its good points and bad … certainly some of their funds have been stellar performers but others, like Magellan and Dividend Growth, have really lagged.