Closed End Mutual Funds - Should We Stay Away From Them?

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]June 17, 2009: Most references to mutual funds in articles, posts and talks are meant for conventional or open-ended mutual funds. Closed-end funds are seldom talked about. Both are investment entities that invest collective assets of investors and trade securities according to a specific strategy. However