In the past my colleagues Karen Dolan and Kunal Kapoor have shared some "shocking" fund statistics with you. Today, I thought I'd share some pretty darn interesting
fund/stock. But, according to a M* article titled ' It's Time for Mutual Funds to Join the 21st Century ' by Karen Dolan , that's not the case. For simplicity's sake, let's assume I make an initial investment on May 1st of $5000
which will be named on Jan. 4, is Morningstar's Karen Dolan ; she's director of fund analysis. Thanks for joining me, Karen. Karen Dolan : Thanks, Jason. Stipp : So, I wanted to talk to you
of Fund Spy columns explaining how the ratings process worked in practice for specific funds. In the first column, Karen Dolan looked at a wide variety of mutual funds at different rating levels. Last week, Eric Jacobson provided detailed discussions
committees based on asset class, and we've spent the past five months vetting ratings. I head each committee, and Karen Dolan , our director of fund analysis, is also a member of each committee. Eric Jacobson and Miriam Sjoblom are part of
Joining me to offer the details on this new rating is Morningstar's director of fund analysis Karen Dolan . Karen, thanks for being here. Karen Dolan : Thank you, Jason Stipp : So, I think most investors are familiar with the Morningstar star
rating effort to go beyond Fund Analyst Picks and Pans as Karen Dolan wrote last week. Later this year, we’ll give funds ..... S. stocks, and foreign stocks. I head each one and Karen Dolan , director of fund analysis, is also on each panel
fast, in the business of money management, however, without placing your own interests in front of your clients'. Karen Dolan , director of fund analysis, contributed to this column.
and selling on a retail brokerage platform. But these commissions aren't chump change, either: As my colleague Karen Dolan discusses in this article , the average equity fund in our database pays roughly 0.30% in brokerage commissions
the Mutual Funds forum of Morningstar.com's Discuss boards . Other users also posted in the comments section below Karen Dolan 's article outlining the winners. I've summarized many of their responses below; readers can see the complete Discuss