As far as I can tell, none of my fund investments hold NYT. I have one more to check out, It's a Fidelity, but I don't know without go through some paperwork which ones. But I think it's a great idea...on so many levels.
This is where that MSN link comes in handy.
Go to the link and enter the 5 letter symbol for your fund in the blank near the top of the page.
When it comes up, go to the left hand column and click the ownership column. Then you can see listed the top 25 companies owned by that fund. It takes about 30 seconds once you enter the 5 letter fund symbol.
Print that page out if your fund has NYT in the top 25, and sell it or trade for one that doesn't. Then send it in a letter to FIDO with your complaint re the bad investment and the sedition actions of the NY Slimes ownership.
Before I buy any mutual fund, I do the ownership check. If the Fund owns NYT or any of the other major dinosaur fish wraps, I don't buy it.
Then, at least once a quarter I check the ownership of our funds to see what has crept in. I avoid owning Geico, Progressive and other Buffet controlled stocks.
"As far as I can tell, none of my fund investments hold NYT. I have one more to check out, It's a Fidelity, but I don't know without go through some paperwork which ones. But I think it's a great idea...on so many levels."
Absolutely, a couple of our moderate friends bailed out on mutual funds owning NYT because of the bad investment. They asked what other bad investments and I gave them the 3 letter stock indexes for the other major dinosaur fishwraps. They were amazed at the ownership of those stocks by mutual funds. I responded, investing in most liberal owned companies has not been a good investment since early 2000, and it has become worse for most liberal owned companies since Clintoon left office.
Liz and I have been noting on Free Republic for about 5 years, investing in liberal controlled companies is often a bad investment.