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- From: etpeters@dal.mobil.com (E. T. Peterson(Eric))
- Subject: Re: Covered Calls: Less Risk - High Returns.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.215736.1594@mobil.com>
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- Organization: Mobil Exploration & Producing Technical Center(MEPTEC), Dallas.
- References: <1993Jan18.230334.26026@novell.com> <1993Jan20.192644.13834@mobil.com> <21JAN199313432567@csa2.lbl.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:57:36 GMT
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- In article <21JAN199313432567@csa2.lbl.gov>, schindler@csa2.lbl.gov (AARON SCHINDLER) writes:
- |> (E. T. Peterson(Eric)) writes...
- |>
- |> >However, mutual funds that use this technique usually do not perform as well
- |> >as "regular" mutual funds. Why?
- |>
- |> Eric, please excuse my audacity. But I have learned not to believe everything
- |> I read. Could you cite the source of the information that mutual funds that
- |> sell covered calls don't perform as well? I find it an interesting fact.
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- It was an article in Mutual Fund Forecaster a couple years ago. I'll look
- through my back issues for it. I think they compared covered-call funds vs.
- growth and income funds during a period when the market rose moderately.
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- Of course the covered-call funds would probably do better in a bear market.
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