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- From: tcbd@cbnews.cb.att.com (tom.c.b.davison)
- Subject: Re: IDEA
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:43:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.194344.15726@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1426500336@igc.apc.org> <28361@sybase.sybase.com>
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- In article <28361@sybase.sybase.com>, coop@sybase.com (John Cooper) writes:
- > In article <1426500336@igc.apc.org> mcaldon@igc.apc.org (McAldon International Inc.) writes:
- > >
- > >Lots of folks are complaining, with good reason, about the need to
- > >pay annual capital-gains taxes on mutual-fund distributions in taxable
- > >accounts. How about using Berkshire-Hathaway (BRK-NYSE) in lieu of
- > >a fund? Your manager will be the renowned Warren Buffet; the stock
- > >keeps hitting new highs and never makes any distributions. Only
- > >inconvenience is it will cost about $12,000 a pop.
- >
- >
- > Do BRK shares trade easily in odd lots -- specifically, is it worthwhile to
- > buy a single share? Since commissions tend to be tied to dollar volume rather
- > than number of shares, the only prohibition to buying one share of BRK would
- > seem to be finding a buyer later on.
- >
- Not a problem with BRK, as you might suspect for a stock with a price over
- 10,000. My only regret personally is that I didn't buy two so I could sell one
- when I doubled my money.
-
- Also, not all mutual funds have high turnover, so then don't have such
- high capital gains payouts. The "popular" growth funds, probably
- especially the small cap ones, probably have higher turnover
- than some other categories, as a rule of thumb.
- Some ranking services take cap. gains distributions into
- account, figuring out after tax rates of return. A fund category which
- traditionally has low turnover is index funds.
-