[quote=http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/ ... 8B20150227]Equity investors pursuing a buy-and-hold strategy might want to check out a fund that hasn't made an original stock market bet in 80 years.
The Voya Corporate Leaders Trust Fund, now run by a unit of Voya Financial Inc bought equal amounts of stock in 30 major U.S. corporations in 1935 and hasn't picked a new stock since.
Some of its holdings are unchanged, including DuPont, General Electric, Procter & Gamble and Union Pacific. Others were spun off from or acquired from original components, including Berkshire Hathaway (successor to the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway); CBS (acquired by Westinghouse Electric and renamed); and Honeywell (which bought Allied Chemical and Dye). Some are just gone, including the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and American Can. Twenty-one stocks remain in the fund.[/quote]
Buy-and-Hold Fund Prospers With No New Bets in 80 Years
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Re: Buy-and-Hold Fund Prospers With No New Bets in 80 Years
I think I saw that over at bogleheads. It's kind of how my remaining individual stocks are. Light on banks, anyway.
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