Buyer's Guide to the Lowest Cost No Load Mutual Funds 2023

by Lawrence J. Russell

Overview

2023 Edition

With this book, you can easily find the lowest cost and most broadly diversified no-load mutual funds that are available for direct purchase without having to pay a financial advisor. This eBook lists over 250 of the most cost-efficient no load mutual funds organized into 30 asset classes and explains why a very low cost lifetime index investment strategy is preferable.

The author holds a BS from MIT (1975), an MA from Brandeis University (1979), and an MBA from Stanford University (1982) and is the Managing Director of an independent California Registered Investment Adviser firm.

This book's content are:

1) Overview, objectives, and perspective

2) Rational investment fund selection
* Never pay adviser sales loads or 12b-1 fees
* Choose funds with the lowest management fees
* Select funds with the lowest portfolio turnover
* Avoid large actively managed funds
* Choose mature investment funds
* Avoid very small investment funds
* Screen to eliminate significantly inferior fund performance

3) The lowest cost no load mutual funds available for direct purchase (200+ funds in 30 categories)
* Global and International Stock Mutual Funds
* US Total Market & Multi-Cap Stock Mutual Funds
* US Domestic Stock Mutual Funds by Market Capitalization
* Global/International Bond Mutual Funds
* US Taxable Bond Mutual Funds
* Municipal Bond Mutual Funds
* Real Estate/REOC/REIT Mutual Funds
* Money Market Mutual Funds

Chapter 4: Buying no load mutual funds
* Where to purchase investment funds
* Buy mutual funds from companies doing business directly with the public
* Do not purchase funds through high cost channels
* The financial services industry and the cost of financial advisors
* Too few low cost funds & Far too many high cost funds
* Vanguard and Fidelity
* Do your research and do it BEFORE you buy
* Buy funds only to implement a very long-term buy-and-hold-and-hold strategy
* How many investment funds should I own?
* Should I invest in dividend stock funds?
* Target date mutual funds may not be your best choice

5) Bond and cash investment fund considerations
* Invest in fixed income securities through low cost bond index funds
* Bond mutual fund fees
* Scarce low-cost international bond index mutual funds
* Screening cash investment funds

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044222014
Publisher:	Lawrence J. Russell
Publication date:	11/09/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	601,257
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lawrence J. Russell is a California Registered Investment Adviser and the developer of the VeriPlan lifetime financial and investment planning software application. His background also includes corporate and start-up business management, long range planning, and investment management. The author holds a BS from M.I.T. (1975), MA from Brandeis University (1979), and MBA from Stanford University (1982).

His knowledge of personal financial planning and investing has been developed through:
* management of Lawrence J. Russell and Company, a California Registered Investment Adviser, where the author develops comprehensive lifetime financial and investment plans exclusively on a direct client-paid fee-only basis
* studying the finance research literature in depth for over a decade to find evidence of which financial planning and investment strategies work and which do not
* design and development of VeriPlan, which is comprehensive financial planning software that supports do-it-yourself development of lifetime financial and retirement plans
* twenty-five years of prior corporate and start-up management experience in the business development, product management, financial planning, corporate development, and investment functions, including seven years with Hewlett-Packard and seven years with Sun Microsystems