mutual fund
noun
: an open-end investment company that invests money of its shareholders in a usually diversified group of securities of other corporations
Examples of mutual fund in a Sentence
She invested her money in a mutual fund.
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Ken Squire is the founder and president of 13D Monitor, an institutional research service on shareholder activism, and the founder and portfolio manager of the 13D Activist Fund, a mutual fund that invests in a portfolio of activist investments.
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
Unsurprisingly, Kaegi, a former mutual fund portfolio manager, reported the highest income of the group.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Instead, the Fed focused on Wall Street, lending more than $100 billion to buy corporate debt, keep money-market mutual funds whole, help investment banks, and prop up investors who otherwise would have lost money.
—Aaron Klein, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
Around $1 trillion was pulled from active equity mutual funds over the year, according to estimates from Bloomberg Intelligence using ICI data, marking an 11th year of net outflows and, by some measures, the steepest of the cycle.
—Isabelle Lee, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2025
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2026
Unsurprisingly, Kaegi, a former mutual fund portfolio manager, reported the highest income of the group.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Instead, the Fed focused on Wall Street, lending more than $100 billion to buy corporate debt, keep money-market mutual funds whole, help investment banks, and prop up investors who otherwise would have lost money.
—Aaron Klein, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
Around $1 trillion was pulled from active equity mutual funds over the year, according to estimates from Bloomberg Intelligence using ICI data, marking an 11th year of net outflows and, by some measures, the steepest of the cycle.
—Isabelle Lee, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2025
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“Mutual fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutual%20fund. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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