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Fund Spy: Morningstar's Inside Secrets to Selecting Mutual Funds that Outperform |  | Author: Russel Kinnel
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Pages: 176
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Product Description
Author Russel Kinnel walks readers through the handful of key factors they need to pick winning funds. Armed with the quantitative data and qualitative research, they will gain the confidence to pick great funds for the long-term. This book will be accompanied by a web-based tool created by Morningstar, which will enable readers to evaluate their own funds using Kinnel's criteria. Written in a fun and accessible manner, The Fund Spy offers Kinnel's unique insight as a 14-year Morningstar fund analyst. He speaks plainly about the conflicts that can go against investors' interests, explaining how to avoid traps and push out the slick sales pitches facing today's investors. He also offers several "10 lists," which provide quick answers to investors' most common questions (e.g., the Top 10 Funds to Recommend to Relatives, the 10 Best Contrarian Managers, the 10 Most Overrated Managers).
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 A Great Service for Investors May 13, 2009
Allan S. Roth (Colorado Springs, CO United States)
13 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book is well written and, in the typical Morningstar style, makes what many fund managers want you to believe is a very complex subject, quite simple.
Mr. Kinnel separates the hype of what worked well over a couple of years from the statistically valid predictors of performance. He even gives you the odds of investing.
While I don't agree with all of Mr. Kinnel's fund selections, they are well thought out and methodically selected. Much of the mutual fund industry will hate this book, which is exactly why you should read it.
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Morningstar Fund Spy June 12, 2009
Dr Adam Weiss (Buffalo Grove,IL.)
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
Morningstar has been at it for a while now and again bring out the best of information for the small investor to read with Fund Spy.With today's market roller coster moves, Kinnel offers steps for the reader to invest their hard earn money with. Also the author offers his top picks in a Morningstar method for investing in mutual funds.
Morningstar is the best source of mutual fund information August 13, 2009
Mariusz Skonieczny (ClassicValueInvestors . com)
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
Morningstar was founded in order to cover mutual funds. What better source to learn about mutual funds from if not the SOURCE? Mutual funds are like cars, where in order to find how they work, one has to look under the hood. This is exactly what this book is all about. Kinnel is the Director of Mutual Fund Research for Morningstar, Inc, and he teaches readers how to select the best mutual funds. Since these funds are all different, people will benefit from reading this book.
In selecting the right fund, investors should answer some questions such as:
* Is the fund manager invested in the fund with his or her personal funds?
* What is the expense ratio?
* What is the fund's strategy?
Chapter 10 includes funds that passed the author's screening criteria. They include American Funds Fundamental Investors, Fidelity Spartan Total Market Index, and Vanguard Primecap Core.
- Mariusz Skonieczny, author of Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market
Good, easy read for those not necessarily investment savvy September 11, 2009
Cynthia C. Newman (Houston, TX)
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
Easy read, breaks mutual funds down into easy to understand pieces and if you still don't get it, Kinnel gives you his top 20 favorites.
Investing June 28, 2009
Robert A. Bowen (Hammond, LA)
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
If you invest in Mutual Funds, this is one you should have in your library.
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