What are the mutual fund ?

Mutual fund is a form of managed collective investment specialist and professional manner in which they are pooling funds from many investors and invest in stocks, bonds and short-term financial instruments market and / or other securities. Trading fund manager, in any mutual fund, the underlying security investigator gains or losses in the capital, and then collect the dividends or interest revenue. And are then passed to the investment returns of individual investors. And the share value at the expense of the Mutual Fund, known as the net asset value per share (NAV), based on the total value of the Fund divided by the number of shares currently issued and existing maturity.

An investment vehicle that is made up of a pool of funds collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and similar assets. Mutual funds are operated by money managers, who invest the fund's capital and attempt to produce capital gains and income for the fund's investors. A mutual fund's portfolio is structured and maintained to match the investment objectives stated in its prospectus.

A mutual fund is a type of professionally managed Investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. While there is no legal definition of the term mutual fund, it is most commonly applied only to those collective investment vehicles that are regulated and sold to the general public. They are sometimes referred to as "investment companies" or "registered investment companies". Hedge funds are not considered a type of mutual fund, primarily because they are not sold publicly.

In the United States, mutual funds must be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, are usually overseen by a board of directors or board of trustees and managed by a registered investment adviser. Mutual funds, like other registered investment companies, are also subject to an extensive and detailed regulatory regime set forth in the Investment Company Act of1940. Mutual funds are not taxed on their income and profits if they comply with certain requirements under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.

Mutual funds have both advantages and disadvantages compared to direct investing in individual securities. They have a long history in the United States. Today they play an important role in household finances, most notably in retirement planning.

There are3 types of U.S. mutual funds: open-end, unit investment trust, and closed-end. The most common type, the open-end fund, must be willing to buy back shares from investors every business day. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are open-end funds or unit investment trusts that trade on an exchange. Open-end funds are most common, but exchange-traded funds have been gaining in popularity.

Mutual funds are generally classified by their principal investments. The four main categories of funds are money market funds, bond or fixed income funds, stock or equity funds and hybrid funds. Funds may also be categorized as index or actively managed.

Investors in a mutual fund pay the fund’s expenses, which reduce the fund's returns and performance. There is controversy about the level of these expenses. A single mutual fund may give investors a choice of different combinations of expenses (which may include sales commissions or loads) by offering several different types of share classes.

The corpus building for participative Investment for reasonable returns with the features of risk spread; constituted and organized in the form of a corporate/company. Usually the functional expenditure of the said companies are not expected to be above5% of its net returns.

Mutual funds is one of the investments types through banks. Mutual funds is containing a portfolio of many securities, bonds, CDs,  and coupons. That may provide better rate of return more than Certificate of Deposits. But with higher risk. The Mutual funds usually is managed by an expert company in the market securities exchange. 

Mutual funds are pooled investment vessels with a specific nature and investment guidelines, these funds are usually issued by a sponsor entity and managed by a fund manager. There are various types of mutual funds, however the most popular are (Equity, Money Market, Fixed Income and Balanced).

Mutual funds have a net asset value (NAV) at which the price of a single investment certificate (IC) is calculated, and the investors purchase and sell the ICs at the prevailing price.

That of course if the fund was an open-ended fund, but if it was closed-ended, then the purchase of ICs (subscription) occurs at fund launch and no redemption is allowed till the fund matures.