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Mutual Funds Investment Terms

  1. Cash Account

  2. Cash Distribution Per Unit - CDPU

  3. Cash Equivalents

  4. Cash Plus Fund

  5. Cash Reserves

  6. Certified Fund Specialist - CFS

  7. Chartered Investment Counselor - CIC

  8. Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor - CMFC

  9. Checkable Deposits

  10. Cherry Picking

  11. Class Of Shares

  12. Clone Fund

  13. Closed Fund

  14. Closed To New Accounts

  15. Closed To New Investors

  16. Closed-End Fund

  17. Closed-End Management Company

  18. Collective Investment Fund

  19. Commingled Fund

  20. Commingling (Commingled)

  21. Commodity Market

  22. Commodity Pool

  23. Common Stock Fund

  24. Comparison Universe

  25. Conduit Theory

  26. Conservative Growth

  27. Consumer Discretionary

  28. Consumer Staples

  29. Contingent Deferred Sales Charge (CDSC)

  30. Core Plus

  31. Costs And Expenses

  32. Country Fund

  33. Creation Unit

  34. Credit Market

  35. Credit Quality

  36. Crossover Fund

  37. Cumulative Discount Privilege

  38. Cumulative Return

  39. Current Income

  40. Custodial Account

  41. Cyclical Risk

  42. David Dreman

  43. Debt Fund

  44. Dedicated Portfolio

  45. Deferred Load

  46. Defined Portfolio

  47. Demutualization

  48. Depository Institutions Act of 1982

  49. Diamonds

  50. Direct Market Access - DMA

  51. Discount To Net Asset Value

  52. Distribution

  53. Distribution Reinvestment

  54. Diversification

  55. Diversified Common Stock Fund

  56. Diversified Fund

  57. Dividend

  58. Dividend Drag

  59. Dividend ETF

  60. Dividend Frequency

  61. Division Of Investment Management

  62. Diworsification

  63. Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Investing

  64. Dollar-Cost Averaging - DCA

  65. Dow Jones Asian Titans 50 Index

  66. Dow Jones EURO STOXX 50

  67. Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index

  68. Dow Jones STOXX 50

  69. Dual Purpose Fund

  70. Duration

  71. Elephants

  72. Emerging Market ETF

  73. Emerging Market Fund

  74. Enhanced Index Fund - EIF

  75. Enhanced Indexing

  76. Equity

  77. Equity Fund

  78. Equity Income

  79. Equity Style Box

  80. Equity Unit Investment Trust

  81. Equity-Linked Security - ELKS

  82. Estimated Current Return

  83. Estimated Long-Term Return

  84. ETF Sponsor

  85. Euro ETF

  86. Ex-Distribution

  87. Excess Returns

  88. Exchange Fees

  89. Exchange Privilege

  90. Exempt-Interest Dividend

  91. Exit Fee

  92. Expense Limit

  93. Expense Ratio

  94. Fair Weather Fund

  95. Family Of Funds

  96. Feeder Fund

  97. Final Prospectus

  98. Financial Intermediary

  99. Fixed-Income Style Box

  100. Flexi-Cap Fund

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