Overview Of The Mutual Fund Industry
By Richard Loth (Contact | Biography)
Financial intermediaries become fund sponsors when they create and operate mutual funds. Such funds are a type of investment company that pools money from the investing public and collectively invests this money in stocks, bonds and money market instruments. A mutual fund provides individual investors with a convenient form of investing, professional management, broad diversification and liquidity.
The purpose of this tutorial is to show the investing public how to use a simple eight-point, fund evaluation technique to select and monitor a mutual fund. But first we are going to step back and put the mutual fund business into historical perspective, review the operational workings of a fund and look at some of the broad issues related to today's mutual fund industry. (For background reading, see Mutual Fund Basics.)
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Financial intermediaries become fund sponsors when they create and operate mutual funds. Such funds are a type of investment company that pools money from the investing public and collectively invests this money in stocks, bonds and money market instruments. A mutual fund provides individual investors with a convenient form of investing, professional management, broad diversification and liquidity.
The purpose of this tutorial is to show the investing public how to use a simple eight-point, fund evaluation technique to select and monitor a mutual fund. But first we are going to step back and put the mutual fund business into historical perspective, review the operational workings of a fund and look at some of the broad issues related to today's mutual fund industry. (For background reading, see Mutual Fund Basics.)
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Table of Contents
- Overview Of The Mutual Fund Industry
- History Of The Mutual Fund
- How A Mutual Fund Works
- Today's Mutual Fund Industry
- Fund Investment Qualities
- Fund Investment Quality Scorecard (FIQS)
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Richard Loth
Richard Loth has more than three decades of international experience in banking (Citibank, Industrial National Bank, and Bank of Montreal), corporate financial consulting, and non-profit development assistance programs. During the past 12 years, he has been a registered investment adviser and a published author of books and publications on investing. Currently, he devotes his professional activities to educational endeavors, writing and lecturing, aimed at helping individual investors improve their investing know-how (see www.lothinvest.com)
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