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Political Factoid

Mutual fund investing is
just like conventional
gambling.
  1. The "house" always gets
    its cut.
     
  2. If you continue to stay
    in the game, you will
    undoubtedly lose.
     
  3. Invariably, fund managers
    buy high and sell low on
    a regular basis.*
     
    1. When the market climbs,
      more people invest more
      cash into the fund, forcing
      the fund manager to buy
      high
      .
       
    2. When the market dives,
      many people invested in
      the mutual fund pull their
      money out, forcing the
      fund manager to sell fund
      assets
      at a low price.
       
    3. Those long term investers
      in the fund are forced to
      take the consequences of
      that continual buying high
      and selling low.
       
    4. Inflation helps give an
      illusion to long-term gain
      (and minimized loses).
* Just the "opposite" of what makes
money for the investors.
 
cf.  FPR
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