No. This is a modern idea in the last 20 years or so.
The Medici were a powerful family that ruled Florence for over 100 years. They supported some of the greatest artists of the renaissance, such as Donatello and Michelangelo. The Medici started out as a merchant family, but eventually their business, influences and friends made them the richest family in Florence and they eventually took power. Cosimo De Medici was the first Medici who ruled Florence, he was the patron of Filippo Brunelleschi, the person who desgined and led the construction of the big Cathedral of Florence Lorenzo de Medici created an art academy where famous artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo made their art. The Pope Leo X was a Medici that was exiled from Florence. Even Galileo belonged to the Medici court, he was the personal teacher of one of the Medici.
Some of them work but they all share the funds for the family.
Hedge funds are not mutual funds as hedge funds cannot be sold to the general public
There are about 7000 mutual funds (specifically "open end mutual funds") in the U.S. today. These fund have a variety of share classes, such as "Class A" or "Investor Class", which expands the total number of share offerings out to about 25,000. Source: NewRiver, Inc.
Oppenheimer Funds is a company that specializes in financial management. They offer many different mutual funds that are basically pools of money invested in different areas, such as developing markets or money markets. Investors buy a share of these funds and make a profit when they earn a share of the returns on those investments.
Use a website like Share Builder to compare different types of mutual funds.
These funds are extremely hedged in different sectors, and in many cases different countries.
Courtroom funds are a share of courtroom contributions. Courtroom contributions are donations made by individuals or institutions to a person, or their campaigns for election, or reelection.
Shares are issued so that the funds generated can be used by the company as capital. The funds are normally invested in more machinery or in expansion opportunities.
Non-Redistributed (ie the dividends are re-invested into the mutual funds)
It is a code used to identify managed funds and their share classes for the markets
You sue them and, if they don't have the funds, you would likely start with getting their share of the asset owned.