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The Dead Man Fund: Charles Steadman: (A Must Read) #18,000

FYI: In 1989, Morningstar, Inc., an advisory service, issued a strongly worded and unusual recommendation to its clients who had placed money with a firm then called the Steadman Funds (later known as the Ameritor Funds). “We urge you to cut your losses and get out,” Morningstar counseled. Doubtless, some investors heeded this advice. Many couldn’t, though, because they were dead
Regards,
Ted
https://longreads.com/2017/11/09/ameritor-dead-mans-fund-charles-steadman/

LA Times 1/4/98 Chuck Jaffe Article
http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jan/04/business/fi-4852

Forbes 8/23/99 Article:
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0823/6404124a/

Comments

  • If ever a board of directors deserved to be sued for allowing such nonsense to continue for so many years it was this one.
  • “... and the account holders were deceased or close to it. “

    Seems to me it’s either one way or the other.
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