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.

A front ended load mutual fund that charges a sales of charge that must be paid when a person buys a investment.This reduces the amount of shares that can be purchased,but it is better for long term investors.A fund end load mutual fund will also charges a smaller 12b-1 fee is also know as distribution fee.When considering mutual fund there are lot of AMC that offer good schemes for both long term as well as short term investors. Check out Reliance mutual fund which is fast emerging as one of the best mutual fund companies in the country.

As of may 2009 there are 38 asset management companies operating in india: 1 AIG Global Investment Group Mutual Fund 2 Baroda Pioneer Mutual Fund 3 Benchmark Mutual Fund 4 Bharti AXA Mutual Fund 5 Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund 6 Canara Robeco Mutual Fund 7 DBS Chola Mutual Fund 8 Deutsche Mutual Fund 9 DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund 10 Edelweiss Mutual Fund 11 Escorts Mutual Fund 12 Fidelity Mutual Fund 13 Fortis Mutual Fund 14 Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund 15 Goldman Sachs Mutual Fund 16 HDFC Mutual Fund 17 HSBC Mutual Fund 18 ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund 19 IDFC Mutual Fund 20 ING Mutual Fund 21 JM Financial Mutual Fund 22 JPMorgan Mutual Fund 23 Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund 24 LIC Mutual Fund 25 Mirae Asset Mutual Fund 26 Morgan Stanley Mutual Fund 27 PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund 28 Quantum Mutual Fund 29 Reliance Mutual Fund 30 Religare AEGON Mutual Fund 31 Religare Mutual Fund 32 Sahara Mutual Fund 33 SBI Mutual Fund 34 Shinsei Mutual Fund 35 Sundaram BNP Paribas Mutual Fund 36 Tata Mutual Fund 37 Taurus Mutual Fund 38 UTI Mutual Fund

A mutual fund is a corporation

function of mutual fund are;

1 professional management

2 affordabiliti

3 liquidity

4 diversification