As the post-election market landscape continues to take the shape of a bull, the smart investor may want to invest not only in mutual funds, but mutual fund firms themselves, USA Today reports.
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Ironically, at least for mutual fund owners, the reason for the success is management fees. Its really simple: the more profitable the fund is, the more profits its management company receives. And with President Bushs proposal to privatize Social Security, shareholders of publicly owned fund companies could benefit even more. While fund managers themselves hate the idea of administering smaller accounts because they are so expensive to manage the money coming in will increase, and so will the profits for the company.
And as the market creeps toward all-out bullishness, investors will take money out of bond funds and start dumping it into equity funds and international funds, which carry management fees of two times and sometimes three times those of bond funds.
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