26 Quotes by Christine Benz

They're not chartbusters, and that's what gets funds noticed, ... (But) there are plenty of funds that haven't garnered a lot of assets and are good investment vehicles all the same.

It's a classic rotation away from everything that did well in 1998 and the first quarter of 1999. Everything that did lousy in that time has picked up.

For investors who aren't sure about how to select a fund appropriate for their time horizon, these funds really make it simple for you to do that and to get a lot of diversification in a single package. They help investors with the two things they have the most problems with. The first is arriving at an appropriate asset allocation, and the second is maturing that asset allocation as you approach your goal.

It's the worst year in a big way.

It's a point I'd make regarding any mutual fund, but it's particularly important in a mutual fund type where you expect a low absolute return. If you're paying 1 percent in expenses and you're earning just 3 percent, you're forking over literally a third of your return.

It's hard to say whether he's making brilliant choices because it's hard to go wrong in Internet stocks, ... It's hard to say whether he's a good stock picker or just lucky.

In general, in any sort of tax-deferred account, you have a little more leeway to look at fund types that might be undesirable for your taxable account. If you're going to own a high-turnover, aggressive growth fund, for example, putting it in a tax-sheltered wrapper is a good idea. By the same token, a high-yield bond fund might be a good thing to put in a tax-deferred account.

Internet-heavy funds took some of the biggest hits yesterday, but most people watching the tech area have long thought that there's probably been some froth among those stocks.