19 Quotes by Kunal Kapoor

Quite honestly, it will take him a while to get the portfolio to his liking. People need to sit it out and look at the fund again 9 to 12 months down the road.

Our analysts have long considered these less-tangible factors in an effort to help investors determine which fund companies do the best job of safeguarding their interests.

A lot of people are turned off by international investing because of how poor last year was. People are losing perspective because 1999 was just an awesome year. Too often, people just focus on what happened in the last year.

A lot of style purists want to have small cap foreign funds. But (the category) still in its infancy. I'm still not completely sure you need one in your portfolio. This is something that is relatively new. You have to be very careful when you choose a fund.

It's important to consider the intangibles associated with making an investment decision,

I'm not sure the funds have proven themselves, ... I'd really be hesitant for anybody to take a look at them.

In this category you have swings of 30 to 40 percent in one quarter,

In the past, these were growth funds in name only.

The fund got whipsawed. There was some real underperformance here. Part of it was the manager, but Merrill Lynch bears some of the responsibility.