What does a mutual fund accountant do?
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Invest in many stocks from a sector or sectors of the market in order to increase capital.
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Sie Können die meisten Zinsen aus CD's haben. Mutual Funds sind auch ein sicher anlegen.\n\n*DISCLAIMER*- excuse my terrible German, I study it at University, but that is not saying much.
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Zero. Seriously, institutional investors are precisely that: institutions set up to invest funds. They have highly professional staffs whose sole purpose is to evaluate different investment managers with whom they will place their money. Why on earth would they pay money to a "consultant" to do that?
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When you get the prospectus of a mutual, they have to disclose the fees, so it's pretty trivial to tell if it's load or no-load.  Just beware that no-load doesn't mean no fees.  They just charge the fees throughout the year instead.
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A mutual fund is simply a financial intermediary that allows a group of investors to pool their money together with a predetermined investment objective. The mutual fund will have a fund manager who is responsible for investing the pooled money into specific securities (usually stocks or bonds). When you invest in a mutual fund, you are buying shares (or portions) of the mutual fund and become a shareholder of the fund. \n\nMutual funds are one of the best investments ever created because they are very cost efficient and very easy to invest in (you don't have to figure out which stocks or bonds to buy). \n\nBy pooling money together in a mutual fund, investors can purchase stocks or bonds with much lower trading costs than if they tried to do it on their own. But the biggest advantage to mutual funds is diversification.
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Mutual Fund\nSome or most mutual funds do not allow you to enter or exit except after the close of the trading day. \n\nIn mutual funds, unless you give the orders, it is always "in" the market. Some are limited to how many times you may trade in and out.\n\nYou have no idea whom is managing your money, and have no guarantee from past performance.\n\nA mutual fund will rarely outperform, or match the performance of the S&P or Dow because of their fees.\n\n\nETF's\nIt will take you hours of searching to find a mutual fund cheaper than investing in ETF's. An ETF has no loads or fees except for the commission, like any stock. In general, ETF's are much cheaper to trade.\n\nAn ETF will exactly match the index it is tied to, minus commission cost, which is negligible.\n\nYou can short the market with an ETF (betting on the market going down), which you cannot do with a mutual fund.\n\nThere is no "short-selling rule" like there is with stocks.\n\nI can't imagine why anyone would pay someone you don't know to keep you in the market at all times, when you can do the same thing yourself a lot cheaper, and get out when the markets get risky, like at failures at old all-time highs, like now. \n\nThe best way to do anything yourself is to learn something about it first. You'd be surprised at the thousands of books available on this one subject at your local library.\n\nBut most people spend more time deciding the color of their new car, than they do on a mutual fund advisor, for example. \n\nAre you really wanting to do this yourself, or are you asking about someone who is an expert who can do it for you?\n\nIf you invest in the stock market right now, or just buy into all the ETF's you can afford, it's a crap shoot, like rolling the dice, and the odds are probably not in your favor, whether you have an expert fund manager or not, because mutual funds are always "in" the market.\n\nThey say "Buy and Hold" for the long term is better, but that depends on when you get in, and what your definiton of "long term" is. The phrase "Buy low and sell high" infers that you buy after a decline; decidedly not the case here.\n\nThe Dow has approached all-time highs last seen in Jan 2000 and failed, so if your long-term definition is more than seven years, then you won't mind waiting another seven years for a profit.\n\nIn my opinion, the name of the game is capital preservation. When the risks are high, like right now, you get out of the stock and bond markets and park your cash in a interest bearing money market fund or CD or Treasury Bill.\n\nThis is simply not a good entry point for investors. Be patient, wait a few months, and you'll be able to buy much more stock a lot cheaper, the risks will be lower (even though they will seem higher), and your chance of success greater.\n\nIf you wish to research the “Buy and Hold Strategy” further, or perhaps trade yourself, I recommend two book titles. One is called "Which Is Better, Buy-and-Hold or Market Timing?" The other is "Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Market Timer?" They will give you plenty to think about.
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quick smoking, drinking.\n\nput 20% of your earning into high yeild mutual funds -
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Most of the mutual funds from big names firms are overpriced and underperform. Check out the performance and fees from the fund you bought with its peers. You could use the fund comparison tool at Vanguard.com or one of many discount brokers. I bet you find that Smith Barney takes a big chunk of your investment as fees and commissions and underperforms as well.\n\nread bobbrinker.com website for more unbiased views on investing and no load mutual funds. Also Growth Fund Research Inc. has an incredible recent track record in mutual fund advisory. NO LOADS>
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The SIPC insures your investments (not the FDIC, or SPIC, as people have suggested). Arthur Andersen was a consulting firm. The were a business services firm, nothing else. Other than the owners of Arthuer Andersen, their collapse didn't destroy anyone's assets.\n\nAlso, by holding your investments in multiple investment firms, you would likely expose yourself to more account fees.\n\nMyself, I own all of my mutual funds directly through the fund firms, for no other reason than to avoid fees and higher minimum purchases.
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Don't buy mutual funds for the long run. They're not good investments. The problem is the fees that are involved. A mutual fund is a pool of money from a number of investors which is then invested and managed by a fund manager and usually his/her employees. This inherently means you get lower returns than if you bought stocks.\n\nThe reason is, the fund manager and employees all have to get paid, which cuts into your earnings. This makes them less attractive, so they often pay advisers to recommend them. This further cuts into your earnings. As a result, stocks are a much smarter option. The IRA isn't a bad idea, and there are different kinds of IRAs you can invest in.
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A Mutual Fund is a collective fund pooled by an enterprise from the investors having mutual interest. The fund collections shall be invested by the Fund manager in the stocks traded on the exchange. The type & mode of investment made by the Fund Manager shall be made specific to the investors at the time of collecting the amount from them. There are lot of mutual funds availble in the market like Morgan Stanley ... etc.,. The mutual funds are governed by laws of the respective country.
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One question per customer....lol\n\nForce yourself to save by taking money out of your account or check automatically.  Your 401k (if you have one) can accomplish that. So can automatic deductions for mutual funds (say $50 a month).\nTake the money out first and you'll not be able to spend it!!!
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A mutual fund is a form of collective investment that pools money from many investors and invests the money in stocks, bonds, short-term money-market instruments, and/or other securities. Legally known (in the US) as an "open-end company," a mutual fund is one of three basic types of investment companies available in the US.\n\nThe portfolio manager trades the fund's underlying securities, realizing a gain or loss, and collects the dividend or interest income. The investment proceeds are then passed along to the individual investors. There are more mutual funds than there are individual stocks.
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first u have to know why the mutual funds is for --- since in shares the risk is high so they go for the mutual fund where there are number of sectors that are being part of the fund like IT,Medical etc.,  the main target audience for the mutual fund is that Middle cluase people since they love to invest but they have fear that how that perform in the market so they introduced the mutual fund........\n\nthe mutual fund is marked by the NAV (Net Asset Value)\n\nand the initial public offer is Rs 10. no matter which company belong to the fund.....\n\nand now they call it as NFO\n\n\n\ninvest  in the mutual fund and let the money will earn to you........\n\n\nremember there are many types of investment are there like SIP
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An accountant is someone who records numbers and knows the rules regarding how those numbers need to be recorded it.  Accountants are not necessarily investment gurus.  Plus accounts who work usually only earn a fixed salary unlike someone who is a sales person earning a commission.  If you are working for a commission your income is not fixed and you have the potential for much higher income.\nAlso, accountants don't make that much money.\nI know because I am an accountant. The money is decent but not great.
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It is an accountant that is specialized in taxes, many of them have master in taxes, they will help you a lot.
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Your investment is in an IRA so there won't be a taxable distribution (unless you pull the money out of the investment).  Sometimes there can be account closure fees that mutual funds may charge or the financial institution you are working with.  If you are in a bad investment, it can be worth any fee to move into a stronger investment.  Look for long-term results rather than just the past 3 or 5 years.  Good Luck.