They invest their 401(k) account equally in a stock mutual fund and a bond mutual fund, each of which charges average market fees.
That statute says that a company that sells securities to the public and then turns around and invests that money in a pool of securities is a mutual fund and subject to a comprehensive mutual fund regulatory scheme.
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On August 21st, Old Mutual announced that it intends to dissolve itself as a mutual and to seek a stockmarket listing in Johannesburg.
There, the court held that you could patent a strategy for managing a mutual fund with a computer.
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For instance, a mutual fund with a duration of 12 will drop approximately 12% for every 1% rise in interest rates.
Like a mutual fund, a closed-end fund is a pool of investments.
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Buy a mutual fund with a 5.75% front-end load--an alias for a commission--from the same broker, and the commission won't be on the bill.
Because many shareholders own their shares through a mutual fund, a pension plan, or other investment pool actively managed by a third party, they are indirect or passive owners.
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At first blush, as stated above, why would a large plan use a mutual fund with a pricing structure that is no different than the pricing structure for a small plan?
Nobody should buy a mutual fund without reading a prospectus (which are full-on mouseprint, funny enough).
You might dollar average into USERX, a mutual fund that holds a diverse number of precious metals mining stocks.
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In the past, the argument has been that in-house ownership of both a mutual fund group and a retail brokerage could increase revenues through cross selling.
The Yankees and Indians might try to make up the game May 13, on a mutual off day following a Yankee trip to Kansas City.
LET'S FACE IT: Buying a mutual fund can be a pretty confusing business these days, what with the proliferation of funds, fund families and fund surveys.
The Commission should unambiguously state that whomever is responsible for monitoring personal trading within a mutual fund company has a paramount duty to protect the shareholders of the funds.
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Hardly a single mutual fund company with a sales load structure could justify offering only its own mutual funds to its employee 401(k), based upon fees and performance.
Most individual investors can't duplicate the breadth and depth of a large mutual fund's holdings, creating a huge market for mutual funds.
"It's well known that the United States and Japan have a mutual defense treaty, " a defense official said of Panetta's exchange in Beijing.
When you invest in a mutual fund, you get a prospectus.
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Yet this corner of France stands out as a symbol of mutual respect, a message that France is now keen to send across the Atlantic.
Bauer did not have a direct relationship with each other, but were linked only through a mutual friend who acted as a middleman to facilitate the illegal scheme.
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Twice the Investment Company Institute, the industry trade group, tried to persuade the SEC to regulate FolioFN as if it were a mutual fund, instead of a brokerage.
Imagine for a moment if you will, every time you bought a mutual fund you were given a chance to join a network of other investors in the fund.
But if you would have invested in a regular stock mutual fund, a lot of those earnings would have been taxed at the lower capital gains rate (currently 0-15%).
The wash sale rule says that if you sell a stock or mutual fund for a loss and buy back a "substantially identical" security within 31 days of selling it, your loss is disallowed.
We need systems that make positions transparent in a single database and then tag them to exposures in a mutual fund, bonds or a hedge fund so if you want to see the accounting position you can get it across different types of holdings.
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In simple terms, it is a mutual fund that is traded like a stock.
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Why should you never buy a mutual fund or retirement plan from a broker or insurance agent?
The covenant is described as "a voluntary statement of mutual support between a civilian community and its service personnel".
Seattle's Washington Mutual provides a play area for customers' kids at some branches.
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