American mutual funds have gradually increased their overseas allocation of equities since 2003 from 15% to 22.5% of assets, says Mr Jen.
Perhaps the most damning finding of all, though, comes from comparing the British study's results with those of the yet-to-be-published article on the performance of American mutual funds.
Emerging-market assets make up only 2.1% of all money invested in American equity mutual funds.
John Wheeler, senior manager of equity trading at American Century mutual funds, figures the current system imposes a 0.5% trading cost (one-way) on big orders, between commissions, spreads and the impact such orders themselves have on prices.
If we are not careful, American pension funds, life insurance portfolios, mutual funds and institutional and private stock and bond holders could unknowingly become subsidizers of Chinese government repression and some of its more ominous global activities.
Over half of the funds that American mutual-fund companies started up during the 1990s no longer exist today, according to Mr Bogle, and 900 funds failed in the past three years alone.
For example, the mutual fund company American Funds makes its funds available through many brokers and 401(k) plans.
If Apple is not able to generate good returns for the average American, we will punish these mutual funds by moving our retirement money to somewhere else.
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Kenneth Kehrer, a consultant, estimates that the average American bank has managed to sell mutual funds to fewer than 8% of its customers even in the midst of a raging bull market.
Among those who have weighed in on the draft: the Investment Company Institute (which represents mutual funds), the American Bankers Association, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and the Vanguard Group.
Around 45% of American households now own shares directly or through mutual funds or pension plans.
Morgan, an American bank which owns the American Century mutual-fund group, to sell funds bearing its own name through savings banks in Germany and France.
Mutual Funds are notoriously bad from a tax perspective, and more than half of all American households own a mutual fund.
For example, American mutual-fund investors are switching from international equities into domestic bond funds.
In rich countries, another solution is feasible namely, avoid the single-purpose-provider approach of the Latin American countries and let many kinds of firms (banks, insurance companies, mutual funds) compete for the business.
Raising taxes on dividends would harm virtually every American who owns dividend-paying stocks, as well as anyone who owns stocks indirectly through mutual funds, 401(k) plans, pension plans or life insurance policies.
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Most mutual funds have stayed alert and shifted their holdings to the areas that reflect the new American economy, dominated by information technology.
Singer served as a regulatory lawyer with both the American Stock Exchange and the NASD and also as an in-house lawyer for broker-dealers, mutual funds and investment advisers.
And in that case, the title would be entirely reasonable: for mutual funds or at least flows into them have been decidedly friendly to American stockmarkets these past few months.
American International Group (AIG) is one of my least favorite stocks held by large-cap value ETFs and mutual funds and earns my very dangerous rating.
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