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Educational articles about investing fundamentals, portfolio construction, investment vehicles, risk, and college funding.

What Is a Mutual Fund Load?

It is important to understand mutual fund loads, or sales charges, and exactly what they entail so you can make informed investing decisions.

With closed-end funds, investors pool their money together to purchase a professionally managed portfolio of stocks and/or bonds.

The difference between purchasing an individual stock versus shares in a mutual fund to potentially earn dividends.

A mutual fund is a collection of stocks, bonds, and other securities with certain benefits and risks.

Bond ratings gauge a bond issuer's financial ability to repay its promised principal and interest payments.

Stock market indexes can be useful benchmarks for gauging the performance of an investment portfolio over time.

A bond is simply evidence of a debt from a government entity or a corporation and represents a long-term IOU.

Bonds are issued by many entities and share many characteristics, each type of bond has certain benefits and risks.

An important element to successful investing is to manage investment risk while maintaining the potential for growth.

Before investing in stocks, it is important to understand some of the basics and the risks involved in owning stocks.