Mutual fund store?

Has anyone invested with the mutual fund store? How have your returns been? Were they worth the fee charged? Are you beating the market average?

The previous comment is clearly very naive...

A better answer to your question would be...that depends on if you are planning to work with an investment advisor. If so, you will likely get more objective advice and better account management with an independent Fee Only advisor (like The Mutual Fund Store) than with a commissioned advisor (most of the big name brokers). While I can't comment on The Mutual Fund Store's returns, the approach of selecting funds by the manager is widely regarded. I also know that Fee Only advisors generally have 鈥淎t-Will鈥?relationships with their clients (who would probably leave if they weren't doing a good job).

If however, you鈥檙e a knowledgeable investor, with time to do the ongoing research and are managing enough money to make it worth your own time, have consistently beaten the market in the past and didn't loose your shorts during the tech bubble, and have the financial means to live with your own mistakes...you may end up better off saving on the fees by doing it yourself.

So first you need to ask yourself "should I use an advisor?" If the answer is yes, The Mutual Fund Store is probably a good bet. Regardless...stay away from the annuity guys!

I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole.........consider Vanguard instead. Cost matter much more than people think in investing.