Investing in Mutual Funds: Objectives and Basic Concepts
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Mutual funds are an aggregate of ______, bonds, and assets purchased with money from many investors

stocks

The pooled money in mutual funds is placed into ______, bonds, and other holdings

stocks

Mutual funds are the most common investment vehicle for individuals because they do not require a lot of ______ to get started

money

When putting money into a mutual fund, it is being thrown into a pot with another couple hundred million of ______

<p>pesos</p> Signup and view all the answers

Detailed information about the mutual fund is called ______

<p>prospectus</p> Signup and view all the answers

Front-end loads are ______ paid up front

<p>fees</p> Signup and view all the answers

A 6% front load means you pay 6% of every peso invested as a fee, you invest in the remaining fund. An investment of PHP 100,000 means that PHP 94,000 goes to the fund and PHP 6,000 goes to the ______.

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Deferred sales charge permits the load to be postponed, and it gradually declines over a period of years until the sales charge is 0. If you invest PHP 100,000 in February in a mutual ______ with a 5% deferred sales charge, you would pay 5% if you sell the ______ the first year, 4% the second year, and so forth until the sixth year, when you could withdraw all the ______s without a fee. Back-end loads means you pay a set fee upon the sale of the mutual ______. If you purchase and then sell a ______ within too short a time, certain ______s will charge a back-end fee, often 1 or 2% HOW TO BUY MUTUAL FUNDS Call a stockbroker, a professional buyer and seller of investments, and ask about the ______. Go directly to the mutual ______ on line. ADVANTAGES OF MUTUAL FUNDS Money can be taken directly from the bank account each month and transferred into a mutual ______. It offers diversification. If you diversified and one or more of your investments hits a slump, you can rely on your other investments to boost your total portfolios. It does not cost much out of pocket to buy mutual ______ shares. It carries almost no risk of going bankrupt. This is due to diversification within a ______, a mutual ______ is very unlikely to lose its entire value.

<p>fund</p> Signup and view all the answers

Money can be taken directly from the bank account each month and transferred into a mutual fund. It offers ______.

<p>diversification</p> Signup and view all the answers

If you diversified and one or more of your investments hits a slump, you can rely on your other investments to boost your total portfolios. It does not cost much out of pocket to buy mutual fund shares. It carries almost no risk of going bankrupt. This is due to diversification within a fund, a mutual fund is very unlikely to lose its entire ______.

<p>value</p> Signup and view all the answers

If you purchase and then sell a fund within too short a time, certain funds will charge a back-end fee, often 1 or 2%. HOW TO BUY MUTUAL FUNDS Call a stockbroker, a professional buyer and seller of investments, and ask about the fund. Go directly to the mutual fund ______.

<p>online</p> Signup and view all the answers

A 6% front load means you pay 6% of every peso invested as a fee, you invest in the remaining ______.

<p>fund</p> Signup and view all the answers

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