Portfolio Turnover: Should You Care?
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Bill Byrnes
Bill Byrnes is co-founder of MUTUALdecision, a website providing mutual fund data, and the author of the MUTUALdecision Blog. He's been an investment banker with Alex. Brown & Sons and a Finance Professor at Georgetown University. He's been CEO, chairman and served on the board of directors of several public and private companies. He holds MBA and JD degrees and is a Chartered Financial Analyst with over 30 years experience in the investment industry. By Bill Byrnes
Published on 04/24/2008
Many mutual fund screening tools have portfolio turnover as one of their filters and you can usually find a fund's turnover (expressed as a percentage) on the fund's snapshot page or by doing a little digging on the fund's website.