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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.
Recent Examples on the Web
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 13D investments.
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Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 20 July 2024
Some mutual fund managers are also being pressured to return non-compliant pay earned in previous years, the people said.
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Alena Botros, Fortune Asia, 27 June 2024
In a major move, the SEC assisted New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer in cracking down on brokerage houses that illegally helped clients trade mutual funds after hours.
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Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
They are not required to report savings accounts, mutual fund investments or other financial instruments.
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Calmatters, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1932, in the meaning defined above
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Cite this Entry
“Mutual fund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutual%20fund. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
Legal Definition
mutual fund
see fund sense 2
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