mutual fund

American  

noun

1. an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.

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mutual fund British  

noun

1. British equivalent: unit trust. 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

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mutual fund Cultural  

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of mutual fund

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

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mutual fund

The standard comeback to this conclusion is that we don’t have to pick a mutual fund at random, but can instead pick those that have the best past performance.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

That’s because the looming mammoth IPOs of Anthropic, OpenAI, and others, may coincide with a calendar-based mutual fund tax strategy to encourage additional selling of poor performers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

The average U.S.-stock mutual fund or exchange-traded fund gained 2.4% in August, pushing its year-to-date return to 12.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

The average U.S.-stock mutual fund or exchange-traded fund posted an average total return in the month of 2.4%, according to statistics from LSEG, to push the year-to-gain to 12.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

One group of mutual fund companies let preferred customers trade at preferred prices, and another group was charged with hiding management fees.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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