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Six Things Your Mutual Funds Should Do

The mutual fund industry is a quagmire of money-losing tricks and traps. But if you are patient and persistent, you can still find funds that will guard your money and work to obtain the best total return. This is the premise of Columbia University professor and longtime corporate critic Louis Lowenstein's new book "The Investor's Dilemma," in which he argues that mutual funds are betraying Americans' trust and proposes solutions to the problem. Here are his suggestions on what to look for in a stock fund in order to ensure that it's a rewarding one: The fund should have a small portfolio. Good managers have a tightly constructed portfolio of perhaps 30 to 40 stocks in companies with good management and strong businesses. By contrast, a typical stock fund, with 160 stocks, has scattered its shots, hoping that its mistakes won't hurt it. Look for a low turnover rate. A low turnover rate tells you something about a manager's temperament -- which is devilishly important but impossible to measure directly -- and how well he or she will cope with the inevitable manic-depressive swings in the market. Check the 10-year performance of the fund. It will enable you to see how the fund did over the ups and downs of a full business cycle. It will also allow you to separate the best managers from the also-rans. And don't let the manager rely solely on a Lipper or Morningstar sector benchmark; those benchmarks make every fund look better. They should "eat their own cooking." That means the managers should put significant personal dollars on the line alongside yours. If a manager won't invest in a fund, why should you? Good managers will often discuss their personal stake in the annual letter to investors, although they are not required to do so. Consider a fund that talks about finding companies that are currently out of favor. It is probably one of the disciplined value funds trying to find stocks at prices that offer a margin of safety -- a discount from the price a buyer would pay for the whole company. That tells you it is doing serious, patient analysis, investing bottom-up, company by company, rather than focusing on whether the economy looks strong or the market too high. Invest with generalists. These managers will try to capture good values anywhere they can find them, here and abroad, in small-cap or large-cap stocks, distressed debt or spin-offs. Since no one sector will offer good value at all times, a sector fund (such as an energy fund) has dumped back on you, the investor, the responsibility for knowing when to get in and when to get out. The asset allocation strategies built around those style or sector funds imply that an investor needs a lot of funds in order to be adequately diversified.