Talk:Mutual fund

Start your own

Anyone know the process if someone wanted to start there own mutual fund? (aka a business) basic information would be useful in this article.

• Well you need a group of investors, unless you are filthy rich, after that you need to form a LLC, Trust, or corporation, etc. not limited in what business form, then you need to register probably with the reguatory body in question probably SEC. Hopefully you manage or operate a fund that investors would want.~ Paul.Paquette

Warren Buffet View on Mutual Fund

Warren Buffett, one of the most experienced and successful investors in the United States, strongly discourages mutual fund investment by his stockholders.

Well he not your typical investor, he buy companies not just a share or two from a mutual fund. He also does not buy the hype of wall street and choose his investments in a very elegant but simple approach. It is quoted that if he does not understand how the business operates, he will simply not buy the stock of that company. Actually these comments should probably be commented on Warren Buffet page, and not on here. Paul.Paquette (talk)

Berkshire Hathaway in its own way, is a mutual fund. It is a collection of company stocks (and as Paul points out complete companies) Buffett has bought for his investors. Also I am pretty well versed with Buffett and his thoughts, but can't recall him saying much one way or another regarding mutual funds, do you have reference source?

I am currently reading The Warren Buffet Way by Robert G. hagstrom, Jr. As far as I can tell from my reading he does not condone it, but he certaintly do not utilize it. The way he creates his portfolio of investments is based on principals and tenents in regard to buiness, management, market and financial. The more I read about his approach / methadology the more I see how practical and relevant it is wholistically. Paul.Paquette (talk)

Update: The quote / views attributed to Warren Buffet which implicates the following: strongly discourages mutual fund investment by his stockholders. In fact this is the completely false. He has been quoted saying the following however: "..the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund..." Paul.Paquette (talk)

what is the focus of this article?

The top of this article states that it's about mutual fund in Canada and United States, yet in the introduction it mentions the worldwide value of all mutual funds. Is this article only about Canada and United States or not? Shawnc (talk) 21:22, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Hedge Fund subsection

The "loose--if any--" SEC regulation claim about hedge funds is over-the-top.

Hedge funds are regulated under the Investment Advisers Act and a slew of other federal and state law and regulation. I find the tone of the subsection unencyclopedic, I'm afraid. HedgeFundBob (talk) 01:24, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

U.S.-centric

I placed a {{globalize/US}} tag on the article because its focus seems to be on the U.S., although mutual funds (by that name) are also found in Canada. ... discospinster _talk 16:55, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Is the term 'mutual fund' used in Britain, Australia etc. Can you clarify? Thanks. --Kleinzach 02:21, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

I don't think that it makes sense to globalize this article -- much of the content is very specific to the United States. Money management is also a very local business, and the U.S. is the single largest fund market, deserving of coverage in its own right. Instead, I'd suggest making "collective investment scheme" into an umbrella article, then linking to specific articles by country. Nicwriter (talk) 19:55, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Wind power in developing countries?

Are there any companies allowing people to invest in wind power in developing countries? Dualus (talk) 19:41, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

99 Percent Declaration credit union funds?

Are there any companies allowing people to invest in credit unions and other investments compatible with the Occupy Wall Street "99 Percent Declaration"? Dualus (talk) 19:41, 30 October 2011 (UTC)