Monday, July 28, 2008

Is your Mutual Fund on the Lemon List?

How often do you look at the mutual funds you own? Don't forget the mutual funds that are in your companies retirement plan.

I came across a cool tool called the Mutual Fund Lemon List. Here's what this web site has to say about itself. This list has been around for 10 years now. Who knew?

The new "Mutual Fund Lemon List" shows you which mutual funds are costing investors money, plain and simple. Included are those funds that have underperformed their one-, three-, and five-year benchmarks.

How many funds are we talking about here? The total number of funds that made the Lemon List last quarter: 2,000+! The total assets in these funds: $1,000,000,000!

That's not a misprint. $1 trillion is currently languishing in these underperforming mutual funds. And I'd be willing to bet that you have at least some assets committed to these funds.

If you have a fund on this list. It's time to dump the fund.

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