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roberta | Can you get rich quick from mutual funds like you can with stocks? |
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jerrold
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Mutual funds are not designed to appreciate in price quickly since they offer wide diversification (frequently hundreds of stocks). It stands to reason that some of those stocks will rise, but others will decline. Naturally you expect (or at least hope) that they will all rise, but the more stocks owned by the fund, the greater the chance that some will decline. If you own one stock, and its price rises substantially within a short time, you will get rich quick. With a mutual fund, this cannot happen. The diversification in a mutual fund is designed to minimize risk. |
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bdfaulkner
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If you are looking to get rich quick, i'd play the lottery, gamble online or go to the casino.
You could try to pick up some "penny stocks" but there is a huge risk there. One "penny stock" im watching right now is Skin's Footwear TICKER: SKNN....they are getting ready to launch their product in January. |
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vicky v
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yes |
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Michael
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Yes, you can. In my opinion, your best shot is to invest in sector funds and rotate your money to catch the hottest sector. If your timing is right, this actually will do better than individual stock picking, and carries less risk. |
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mmmkay_us
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no there is no such thing as "get rich quick" |
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Frank Castle
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No. |
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muncie birder
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Not so quickly, no. The thing that prevents you from getting rich so quickly is that mutual funds invests in a broad diversity of stocks, so even if 1/2 of their investments double in price in one year, which is very very unlikely, the other half does very much less or perhaps even decline in price.
But if you can find the right stock and have the conviction to invest in it and stick with it even though it has doubled your money, which I might add most people can not, then there is the possibility of making a "killing", as some people did when Microsoft went public and as many many other stocks have also done. It is not beyond the relm of possibility to make 100x your initial investment, although I can not say that I ever have. I am more of a 2x to 5x man myself. |
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titleist484
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absolutely not. mutual funds are long term investments. slow and steady wins the race.
In response to STEVEN, the anti-mutual fund guy down there....
He fails to mention you are taking a huge amount of risk investing in individual stock. Mutual funds hedge risk, but in return for knowing you will not lose ALL of you money (very possible with stock, not at all with funds), you should expect lower returns. |
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STEPHEN J
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Don't buy mutual funds. They don't give returns as high as stocks do. The mutual fund managers and any other employees all have to get paid, which cuts into your earnings, bc of this, they pay advisers to recommend them, which further cuts into your earnings.
So advisers sing their praises, about how they provide diversity and can protect you against a bad period for any one sector. The thing is, if you do a little research, you can diversify on your own. However, the best option is focus. Warren Buffett focused on becoming the best investor he could, and now, he's probably the best investor alive, worth several billion dollars.
Stocks will always beat mutual funds bc of the costs involved with funds. With stocks, you buy them and are done. |
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barry852
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No way. But if you don't understand individual companies on a very deep level or have inside information (which is illegal to trade on), mutual funds are the way to go. In fact, not being invested in some diversified portfolio is the worst thing to do. At the very least you need to be in the money market. A rule of thumb is to have (100 - your age) invested in an equity only mutual fund, but this is only if you are investing for the long run (15 years plus). The rest you must spread across the money market, bonds, property, and some international funds.
Be careful to not to pay too much fees in commission, costs and so forth. do your homework. some advisors/brokers will simply invest you in products that give them the highest commission. don't stress too much about which investment company you go for: any reputable company is fine, just don't put your money under the mattress.
DO NOT put your money in 2 or 3 stocks unless you can afford losing all of it.
Be wary of "hedge funds", some charge exhorbitant fees, and it remains to be seen whether they will be any good in the long run. |
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Xango Hill
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Yes!!! Follow your heart if it says yes, then go for it.... |
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soporofic
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the factor is now a days markets in India are run by some operators to ignite either greed or panic in small investors . they will make us shake our hands off the stock and they would grab it . so it is always advisable to resort to mutual funds as you can not know the inner vibration of the market as a small and uninformed investor/trader and eventually will loose money . |
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