mutual fund
an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
Origin of mutual fund
1- Also called open-end investment company.
- Compare closed-end investment company.
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How to use mutual fund in a sentence
Why new cuts will be a double whammy for Bentonville—and anyone with a mutual fund.
Considered as a mutual fund of bank shares, the CPP has had quite a good run.
Bailout’s Success Lets Treasury Take Loss on General Motors Stock | Daniel Gross | December 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe second is that there is a glitch in the mutual fund software, and you just aren't getting the updates.
Ask the Blogger: Why Isn't My IRA Doing Anything? | Megan McArdle | October 22, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt started when Waddell Reed, a large mutual fund, hit a button to sell about $4.1 billion in stock futures contracts.
How Wall Street Computers Almost Killed Knight Trading | Alex Klein, Matthew Zeitlin | August 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWashington is in panic mode and your mutual fund is teetering on the brink.
British Dictionary definitions for mutual fund
US and Canadian an investment trust that issues units for public sale, the holders of which are creditors and not shareholders with their interests represented by a trust company independent of the issuing agency: British equivalent: unit trust
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Cultural definitions for mutual fund
A company organized for the purpose of making investments. A mutual fund gets its capital stock from private individual investors, who, in effect, allow the mutual fund to decide where to invest their money.
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