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 02-29-2008, 17:06 Post: 151787
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I'm with KT, individual stocks are too risky unless you know a LOT about the company and the market they are in and track it regularly. That's too much work and anxiety for me, not enough Maalox in the world to fix it. We have a lot of retirement money in a range of no-load mutual funds from risky to very conservative. As a group this method has done pretty good in both up and down markets, probably averaging 5-7% in down periods and 8-12% when times are good. We only pick funds highly rated by Morningstar. We have used money managers in the past and they seemed to encourage a lot of "churn" which benefited them more than us.






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I'm a little reluctant to mention specific funds, so if they tank don't blame me Smile

We're in Dodge & Cox Balanced fund, Dodge & Cox Stock, Vangard Wellington and American Funds Stock Fund A.

The Dodge & Cox Balanced fund is more conservative and holds it's own in poor markets. It was closed to new investors for a long time but recently reopened to them, for how long I cannot say.

Dodge & Cox is also opening a new International fund that I'm gonna get into. With all the growth overseas it would seem to make sense to get into that.






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