income fund
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n.
An investment company whose main objective is to achieve current income for its owners.
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A mutual fund that seeks to provide stable current income by investing in securities that pay interest or dividends.
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| Business Dictionary: Income Fund |
Mutual Fund designed to produce current income for shareholders. Some examples of income funds are government, mortgage-backed security, municipal, international, and junk bond funds. Several kinds of equity-oriented funds also can have income as their primary investment objective, such as utilities income funds and equity income funds.
| Wikipedia: Income fund |
An income fund is a mutual fund whose goal is to provide an income from investments.
Income funds are often assumed to be synonymous with bond funds, however income funds may hold stocks instead (typically those with a good history of paying dividends), more accurately called equity income funds, or even some combination.
The point in any case is that the investor is more interested in income than capital gains, perhaps with the intention the fund will never be sold.
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