Investors are giving up on timing a rate hike and dumping funds

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors had been loading up on certain mutual funds with the expectation that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates. But tired of trying to time that move, they're now dumping these perfectly good funds.

JUN 02, 2015

By Jeff Benjamin

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Investors are giving up on timing a rate hike and dumping funds

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