A mutual fund is when a company takes money from many investor's and pools it together to invest in stocks, bonds and other assests. Mutual Funds can be risky because they are not insured by the FDIC.
Mutual Fund Products & Investment Advise.
The mutual fund is a bundle of investments that are taken together for the purposes of dealing out interest related profits to investors. Mutual funds are known in the common knowledge as a "safe" type of investment, primarily because of the low maintenance required by the investor to keep the mutual fund. However, this common definition of the mutual fund has been shattered by the recent events in the market; namely, the Great Recession and the US debt crisis, both of which rocked the market so much as to shake mutual funds from their safe perch. A mutual fund must be researched the same as any other investment, only with a mutual fund, one must research the investment team.
Unit Investment Trust Mutual Fund
The minimum investment required to invest in a mutual fund can vary depending on the fund, but it typically ranges from 500 to 3,000.
TD Mutual Fund Company has high recommendations on their mutual fund activity. It is one of the largest investment companies in Canada. TD Mutual Fund has a long history of helping investors with a variety of investment portfolios.
Mutual Fund investment are subject to market-risk, please read the offer document carefully before investment
The Fund Manager and the Asset Management Company
Mutual fund is a low risk investment. If you invest in a mutual fund, you owns shares of the mutual fund company who is selling you fund. But you do not actually own any underlying asset of the stocks or securities that mutual fund has invested in even they are using your money to invest.
Systematic Investment Plan
One disadvantage of mutual fund investing is that mutual funds are not tailored to the specific investment needs or tax status of individual shareholders
Usually one or at most two fund managers manage a mutual fund. The most common number is 'One"
Systematic Investment Plan