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    Mutual funds are investment vehicles that pool money from many investors to purchase securities like stocks, bonds, and money market instruments. They are operated by a portfolio manager who invests the funds to build a diversified portfolio. Mutual funds offer advantages like increased diversification, daily liquidity, professional management, and access to large investments, but also have disadvantages such as fees, less control over taxes, unpredictable income, inability to customize, and pricing only once per day. There are different types including open-end, closed-end, load, and no load funds.

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    Mutual funds are investment vehicles that pool money from many investors to purchase securities like stocks, bonds, and money market instruments. They are operated by a portfolio manager who invests the funds to build a diversified portfolio. Mutual funds offer advantages like increased diversification, daily liquidity, professional management, and access to large investments, but also have disadvantages such as fees, less control over taxes, unpredictable income, inability to customize, and pricing only once per day. There are different types including open-end, closed-end, load, and no load funds.

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    Mutual Fund: Open-End Funds Closed-End Funds

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    Mutual funds are investment vehicles that pool money from many investors to purchase securities like stocks, bonds, and money market instruments. They are operated by a portfolio manager who invests the funds to build a diversified portfolio. Mutual funds offer advantages like increased diversification, daily liquidity, professional management, and access to large investments, but also have disadvantages such as fees, less control over taxes, unpredictable income, inability to customize, and pricing only once per day. There are different types including open-end, closed-end, load, and no load funds.

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    Mutual fund

    Open-end funds Closed-end funds

    Definition
    An investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities Stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets. Operated by a portfolio manager This manager then turns around and invests this large pool of shareholder money in a portfolio of various assets, or combinations of assets.

    Mutual fund- Advantages


    Increased diversification Daily liquidity Professional investment management Ability to participate in investments that may be available only to larger investors Service and convenience Government oversight Ease of comparison

    Mutual fund- Disadvantages


    Fees Less control over timing of recognition of gains Less predictable income No opportunity to customize Mutual funds cannot be bought or sold during regular trading hours, but instead are priced just once per day.

    Different types of mutual funds


    Closed-End Mutual Funds Open-End Mutual Funds Load Funds No Load Funds

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