What is mutual funds?
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A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. While there is no legal definition of the term "mutual fund", it is most commonly applied to so-called open-end investment companies, which are collective investment vehicles that are...
read more A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. While there is no legal definition of the term "mutual fund", it is most commonly applied to so-called open-end investment companies, which are collective investment vehicles that are regulated and sold to the general public on a daily basis read less
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Dr. Subhransu Sekhar Jena
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A mutual fund is a pool of money from numerous investors who wish to save or make money just like you. Investing in a mutual fund can be a lot easier than buying and selling individual stocks and bonds on your own. Investors can sell their shares when they want.
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A mutual fund is professionally managed investment pool of numerous investors, wherein the fund manager uses his/her discretion to actively manage the corpus with pre-determined mandate e.g. growth, income etc. Since the manager manages the entire fund as one investment, he buys same shares proportionately,...
read more A mutual fund is professionally managed investment pool of numerous investors, wherein the fund manager uses his/her discretion to actively manage the corpus with pre-determined mandate e.g. growth, income etc. Since the manager manages the entire fund as one investment, he buys same shares proportionately, worth whatever new money pours in daily and similarly sells proportionate amount of shares, for all the liquidation applications (redemption). This affects the Net Asset Value of the entire fund, and you as an investor get the benefit of any sudden heavy buying or suffer a drop due to heavy selling. Hence the name "Mutual Fund". read less
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Mutual fund is a process in which Investors pool money with Fund Manager, Fund Manager invests this money in Marketable securities, Securities generates Returns, these returns are passed back to the Investors.
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