If you're just beginning, and you will hold the fund for the long-term (5 or more years), then an excellent starting fund is a S&P 500 index fund. You can get into this with no sales fee ...

Currently these two doesn't exist in India. But UTI MF is shortly coming up with gold based mutual fund and seems it has already submitted the propectus with SEBI for approval. Benchmark is ...

The mutual fund owns stocks. Those stocks pay dividends. Those dividends are treated as qualified dividends (assuming certain holding periods) for tax purposes.

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Index funds with very low expense ratios. Try the vanguard index 500 or wilshire 5000. They provide instant diversification. Buy and hold hold hold

Yes both ETFs and mutual funds can pay out dividends. Of course there are some funds that might not pay out dividends because of their investment policies. For ETFs, you can check the dividend yiel...

Yahoo finance also has a great section. once you pull up the ticker, you will see a bunch of links on the left. "performance" is for performance #s, and you should also see "Hold...

Mutual Fund means : A mutual fund is a professionally-managed form of collective investments that pools money from many investors and invests it in stocks, bonds, short-term money market instrumen...

A share (aka equity shares) of stock represents a share of ownership in a corporation and typically take the form of shares of common stock. As a unit of ownership, common stock typically carries v...

What is agf386? You can enter the fund name into a search engine go to Morningstar .com or go to the website of the fund family. The fund family website usually will carry the closing prices. ...

A dividend is a payment to shareholders. It comes from the profit less retained earnings. A mutual fund, if it consists of instruments that pay dividends, will pay dividends itself

As an individual you can not purchase large number of stocks. Also if you invest heavily in stocks the risks are large. The Mutual Funds are basically finance companies who have experts who will co...

When selecting a mutual fund, an investor has to make an almost endless number of choices. Among the more confusing decisions to be made is the choice between a fund with a growth option and a fund...

Stephan is right that mutual funds have middle-men and professional managers but he is incorrect in saying that stocks are better. The true is answer is: it depends. Most individual investors ...

See, as the name suggest , Mutual Funds are funds arranged by in a pool by ordinary investors who may not have knowledge of financial market .But every one wants to increase wealth. So, a mutual fu...