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mutual funds

mutual funds is the plural of mutual fund.

Meaning of mutual fund

Noun

mutual fund (plural mutual funds)

  1. A form of collective investment in which money from many investors is pooled and invested in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, or other securities under the direction of a fund manager.
    • The work of the Laureates has affected not only academic research but also market practice. The fact that stock markets are very hard to predict in the short run, and that stock-picking is very difficult both in the short and the long run, has led to close examination of the performance by mutual...2013, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “Trendspotting in Asset Markets (Prize in Economic Sciences 2013 / Popular Science Background)”, in nobelprize.org, retrieved 20 Oct 2013

Questions about mutual funds

What is mutual funds the plural of?
Mutual funds is the plural of mutual fund.

Words near mutual funds in the dictionary

  1. mutual consenting
  2. mutual consents
  3. mutual friend
  4. mutual friends
  5. mutual fund
  6. mutual funds
  7. mutual inductance
  8. mutual inductances
  9. mutual induction
  10. mutual information
  11. mutual informations

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