Mutual Fund fees and expenses are charges which may be incurred by investors who hold mutual funds. The fees are usually paid direct to the company in which one invests.

Mutual Fund Expense Calculator

This calculator can help you analyze the costs associated with buying shares in a mutual fund. By entering a few pieces of information, found in your fund's prospectus, you can see the impact of fees and operating expenses on your investment.

Mutual funds bear expenses similar to other companies. The fee structure of a mutual fund can be divided into two or three main components: management fee, nonmanagement expense, and 12b-1/non-12b-1 fees. All expenses are expressed as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund.

Fees and expenses borne by the investor vary based on the arrangement made with the investor's broker.

An additional expense which does not pass through the statement of operations and cannot be controlled by the investor is brokerage commissions.

No load mutual fund means the fund does not charge any type of sales load as the name implies. However, this type of fund may charge fees that are not sales load like purchase fees and redemption fees.