American, Vanguard, T.Rowe Price are no load & low fee fund family?

they are all great companies, vanguard and troweprice are no load fund families, but amercian has some great funds, you can pay the up front load and get very low expenses after that, any of them would be fine, i use troweprice and love the company, my value fund made 20% so far this year, my other two funds around 16%

American charges a fee Vanguard is the best , I have had all of them you get more bang for your buck with Vanguard They have the lowest expenses in the industry and they are no load.

they have load funds just like any other. What they typically have is lower expense ratios and that's because they are so big they don't have to do as much marketing and the cost of what little marketing they do is spread out amongst all those dollars.

The loads are dependent upon the class of the mutual fund shares that you buy. Buy A class shares and you'll have front end loads of 5.75% B Class shares typically have back end loads of 5%. C class shares typically have higher 12-b1 fees and may have a lower front or back end load (1% or so) and then you get to the institutional shares and those are typically no loads and low fees. The more money you have to invest the higher the shares and the lower fees you'll have to pay.

Look at http://biz.yahoo.com/p/fam/a-b.html to see the american funds -fund list and you'll see the classes that I talk about.