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Corporate and Government Bonds
maturity date
the date when a
bond will be
repaid
face value
the dollar amount
that the
bondholder will
receive at the
bond’s maturity
Corporate Bonds
A corporate bond is a corporation’s written
pledge to repay a bondholder a specified
amount of money with interest.
At the maturity date, you:
 Cash in the bond
 Receive a check in the amount of the
bond’s face value
The bond’s interest rate, maturity date, and face
value are stated on the bond.
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debenture
a bond that is
backed only by
the reputation of
the issuing
corporation, rather
than by its assets
Debentures
Most corporate bonds are debentures. Investors
buy this type of bond because they:
 Believe that the company that issues
them is on solid financial ground
 Expect the company to repay the face
value of the bond and make interest
payments until the bond matures
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Corporate and Government Bonds
mortgage bond
a bond that is
backed by assets
of a corporation
Mortgage Bonds
To make bonds more appealing to conservative
investors, a corporation may also issue
mortgage bonds. Mortgage bonds:
 Are a safer investment than a debenture
because they are backed by corporate
assets
 Can be sold to repay the mortgage
bondholders if the corporation fails to
make good on its bonds
Mortgage bonds usually earn less interest than
debentures because their risk to the investor is
lower.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Subordinated Debentures
A subordinated debenture:
 Is a type of unsecured bond
 Gives bondholders a claim to interest
payments and assets of the company
only after all other bondholders have
been paid
Because subordinated debentures are more
risky than other bonds, investors who buy them
usually receive higher interest rates than other
bondholders.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
convertible bond
a bond that an
investor can trade
for shares of the
corporation’s
common stock
Convertible Bonds
You may also choose to invest in convertible
bonds. These types of bonds:
 Offer unique flexibility to investors
 Often have an interest rate that is 1 to 2
percent lower than interest rates on other
types of corporate bonds
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Methods Corporations Use to Repay
Bonds
Today, most corporate bonds have a call feature
that allows a corporation to buy back bonds
from bondholders before the maturity date.
Corporations may get the money to call a bond
by:
 Selling stock
 Using profits
 Selling new bonds at a lower interest rate
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Corporate and Government Bonds
sinking fund
a fund to which a
corporation
makes deposits
for the purpose of
paying back a
bond issue
serial bonds
bonds issued at
the same time but
which mature on
different dates
Calling Back Bonds
To ensure that it has enough funds to pay off a
bond issue, a company may:
 Set up a sinking fund
 Issue serial bonds
When a company calls back its bonds, it may
have to pay bondholders a premium, which is an
additional amount above the face value of the
bond.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Why Corporations Sell Bonds
Corporations sell bonds to:
 Raise money when it is difficult or
impossible to sell stock
 Finance regular business activities
 Reduce the amount of tax a corporation
must pay because the interest paid to
bondholders is tax-deductible
If a corporation files for bankruptcy,
bondholders’ claims to assets are paid before
the claims of stockholders.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Why Investors Buy Corporate Bonds
Although stocks have historically resulted in
greater profits than bonds, many people invest
in bonds because:
 Bonds are safe investments.
 Most bonds provide interest income.
 Bonds may increase in value, depending
on the bond market, overall interest rates
in the economy, and the reputation and
assets of the issuer.
 The face value of a bond is repaid when it
reaches maturity.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Interest Income
Bondholders usually receive interest payments
every six months. The method used by a
company to pay you interest depends on the
type of corporate bond you purchase.
These bond types include:
 Registered bond
 Coupon bond
 Bearer bond
 Zero-coupon bond
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registered bond
a bond registered
in the owner’s
name by the
company that
issues the bond
coupon bond
a bond that is
registered in the
owner’s name for
only the face
value and not for
interest
Registered Bonds and Coupon Bonds
Interest checks for registered bonds are mailed
directly to the bondholder. Only the owner can
collect money from these bonds.
A registered coupon bond comes with
detachable coupons. With this type of bond:
 Only the bond’s owner can collect the
face value.
 Anyone who holds the coupons can
collect the interest.
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bearer bond
a bond that is not
registered in the
investor’s name
zero-coupon
bond
a bond that does
not produce
interest payments
Bearer Bonds and Zero-Coupon Bonds
Anyone who has physical possession of a
bearer bond and its coupon can collect interest
payments on it. Bearer bonds are no longer
issued by corporations.
A zero-coupon bond:
 Is sold at a price far below its face value
 Is redeemed for its full face value at
maturity
Because you buy it for less than its face value,
you automatically make a profit when your zerocoupon bond is repaid.
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Maturity Value of a Bond
The market value of a corporate bond may
fluctuate before its maturity date.
A bond’s value can be affected by:
 The financial condition of the company
that issues it
 Changes in the economy
 The law of supply and demand
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Repayment at Maturity
Corporate bonds are repaid at maturity. After
you purchase a bond, you can choose to:
 Keep the bond until its maturity date and
then cash it in.
 Sell the bond at any time to another
investor.
In either case, the value of the bond is closely
tied to the corporation’s ability to repay it.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
A Typical Bond Transaction
Most bonds are sold through:
 Full-service brokerage firms
 Discount brokerage firms
 Online
You can also buy corporate bonds directly from
account executives or brokerage firms.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Purchasing in Primary and Secondary
Markets
Bonds are purchased in the same way as
stocks. Corporate bonds may be purchased in:
 Primary markets
 Secondary markets
Corporate bonds issued by large companies are
traded on the New York Bond Exchange and
American Bond Exchange.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Government Bonds and Securities
Bonds are sold by:
 Private corporations
 The federal government
 State and local governments
The federal government sells bonds and other
securities to:
 Help fund its regular activities and
services
 Finance the national debt
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Treasury Bills, Notes, and Bonds
The U.S. Department of the Treasury issues
three basic types of securities:
 Treasury bills (T-bills)
 Treasury notes
 U.S. government savings bonds
U.S. government security bonds can be:
 Held until maturity
 Cashed before the maturity date
You must pay federal income tax on interest you
receive from these investments.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Bonds Issued by Federal Agencies
Bonds are issued by other federal agencies as
well.
While agency bonds are almost risk-free, they:
 Offer a slightly higher interest rate than
securities issued by the treasury
department
 Have an average maturity of about 12
years
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municipal bond
a security issued
by a state or local
government to
pay for its ongoing
activities
Bonds Issued by State and Local
Governments
Municipal bonds may pay for major projects,
such as the building of:
 Airports
 Schools
 Highways
Although municipal bonds are relatively safe, on
rare occasions, governments have defaulted, or
failed to repay, their bonds.
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Corporate and Government Bonds
Insured Municipal Bonds
If the risk of default worries you, you might
consider buying insured municipal bonds.
Three large private investors guarantee such
bonds:
 MBIA, Inc.
 The Financial Security Assurance
Corporation
 The American Municipal Bond Assurance
Corporation
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Section 10.2
Investing in Bonds
Determining Investment Value
Before you make a decision to include bonds in
your investment portfolio, you must learn how to
accurately determine the investment value of a
bond.
You will be able to determine whether a bond is
a good investment by:
 Understanding bond price quotations
 Researching various sources of
information on bonds
 Checking bond ratings
 Calculating the yield of your bond
investment
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Investing in Bonds
Bond Price Quotations
Before you buy or sell bonds, you should
become familiar with bond price quotations.
Some valuable sources for bond information
are:
 Local newspapers
 Metropolitan newspapers
 The Wall Street Journal
 Barron’s
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Investing in Bonds
Sources of Information on Bonds
As a bondholder, you should always be aware
of the financial stability of the issuer of your
bonds. The most important questions are:
 Will the bond be repaid at maturity?
 Will you receive interest payments until
maturity?
Annual reports provide detailed financial
information about a company.
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Section 10.2
Investing in Bonds
Annual Reports
As you read an annual report, look for signs of
financial strength or weakness and ask:
 Is the firm profitable?
 Are sales increasing?
 Are long-term liabilities increasing?
 How might the company’s current
activities and future plans affects its
ability to repay bonds?
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Investing in Bonds
Other Sources of Information
You can also research possible bond
investments by:
 Reading business magazines
 Consulting reports and research
published by the government to track the
nation’s economy
 Searching the Internet for information
about the financial performance of
particular companies
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Section 10.2
Investing in Bonds
investmentgrade bonds
bonds that are
issued by
financially stable
companies or
municipalities
Bond Ratings
Before you invest in a particular corporate or
municipal bond, you should check its rating.
This rating will give you a good idea of the
quality and risk associated with that bond.
The highest category of bonds, investmentgrade bonds, are considered safe investments
that will provide a predictable source of income.
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Investing in Bonds
yield
the rate of return,
usually stated as
a percentage,
earned by an
investor who
holds a bond for a
certain period of
time
Yield of a Bond Investment
To determine the return that a particular bond
may produce, investors calculate and track its
yield. You can measure a bond’s yield by:
 Calculating its current yield
 Considering the yield to maturity of a
bond
These calculations allow you to compare returns
on a bond investment with other investments.
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Section 10.3
Mutual Funds
Defining Mutual Funds
Investors pool their money to buy stocks, bonds,
and other securities
Investor with limited resources can own part of
an entire portfolio of diverse securities
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Mutual Funds
Why Investors Buy Mutual Funds
Reasons for purchasing a mutual fund include:
 Professional management
 Diversification
 Reduction of shareholders’ risk
Become extremely popular investments
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Mutual Funds
closed-end fund
a mutual fund with
a fixed number of
shares that are
issued by an
investment
company when
the fund is first
organized
Closed-End Funds
About 6 percent of all mutual funds are closedend funds
 Once all shares bought, there are no
more
 Have to trade (buy or sell) from other
investors
 On the floors of stock exchanges
 In the over-the-counter market
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Mutual Funds
open-end fund
a mutual fund with
an unlimited
number of shares
that are issued
and redeemed by
an investment
company at the
investors’ request
net asset value
(NAV)
the amount that
one share of a
mutual fund is
worth
Open-End Funds
Shares of open-end funds can be:
 Bought and sold on any business day by
contacting the investment company that
manages the mutual fund
 Bought and sold at the net asset value
(NAV)
If you buy shares of an open-end fund from an
investment company, you gain access to a wide
variety of services.
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Mutual Funds
load fund
a mutual fund for
which you pay a
commission every
time you buy or
sell shares
Load Funds
Mutual funds are classified as either:
 Load funds
The advantage of a load fund is that the fund’s
representatives will offer advice and guidance
about when shares of the fund should be bought
or sold.
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Mutual Funds
no-load fund
a mutual fund that
has no
commission fee
No-Load Funds
No-load funds:
 Do not charge commissions when you
buy shares
 Have no salespeople
 Offer the same investment opportunities
as load funds
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Mutual Funds
Management Fees and Other Charges
Management fees are a fixed percentage of the
fund’s asset value.
Instead of charging investors a fee when they
purchase shares, some mutual funds charge:
 A back-end load, a fee that is charged for
withdrawing money from the fund
 Trying to discourage early withdraw
 A 12b-1 fee, a fee that helps to pay for
the marketing and advertising of a mutual
fund
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Section 10.3
Mutual Funds
Categories of Mutual Funds
 Stock mutual funds
 Bond mutual funds
 Mixed mutual funds
The managers of mutual funds match their
investment portfolios to the investment
objectives of their customers.
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Mutual Funds
Stock Mutual Funds
Involve stocks
 Aggressive growth funds
 Seek to grow money rapidly
 Frequent swings of high and low
 Equity income funds
 Companies with long history of paying
dividends
 To provide steady income
 Global stock funds
 World
 Growth and income funds
 Companies expecting higher than average
revenue growth
 Larger, less risky, pay some dividends
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Mutual Funds
 Index funds
 Listed in an index
 Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index
 May have lower management fees
 International funds
 Outside US
 Different regions, if one region struggling, another to balance out
 Large-cap funds
 Companies with market value bigger than 8 billion
 Long term for retirement
 Mid-cap funds
 Assets of at least 500 million
 Allow for more growth potential than large cap
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Mutual Funds
 Small-cap funds
 More than 250 million to less than 500 million
 More growth potential than mid-cap
 Risky
 Micro-cap funds
 less than 250 million
 Start up, takeover, companies about to go into different markets
 Extremely risky, but growth potential is exceptional
 Regional funds
 Within one region of the world
 European, Latin America, Pacific
 Sector funds
 Same industry
 Utility funds
 Provide utility services
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Mutual Funds
Bond Mutual Funds
 High-yield (junk) bond funds
 high risk, high returns
 Insured municipal bond funds
 Tax exempt income
 Outside company insures them against risk of
default or nonpayment
 Intermediate corporate bond funds
 5 and 10 year maturity
 Investment grade corporate bonds

Means quality of investment, BBB or higher
 Intermediate US bond fund
 US treasury notes of 5 – 10 years
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Mutual Funds
 Long-term U.S. bond funds
 Longer than 10 years
 Municipal bond funds
 Tax exempt interest income
 Short-term corporate bond funds
 1 – 5 years maturity
 Short-term US bond funds
 Government 1 – 5 years
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Mutual Funds
Mixed Mutual Funds
Stocks and bonds or in various other types of
securities.
 Balanced funds
 Provide income with minimal risk
 Money-market funds
 CDs, government securities
 Easy to withdraw
 Stock/bond blend funds
 diversify
A variety of mutual funds managed by one
investment company is called a family of funds.
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Section 10.4
Investing in Mutual Funds
Considering Your Financial Goals
Consider several questions
 How old are you?
 What is your family situation?
 How much risk do you want to take?
 How much money do you make now?
 How much money are you likely to make
in the future?
Once you know your investment goals, find a
mutual fund with investment objectives that
match your own
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Section 10.4
Investing in Mutual Funds
Information on Mutual Funds
The main sources of information on mutual
funds include:
 Newspapers
 Wall Street Journal, Barron’s
 Financial publications
 Business Week, Forbes, Kiplinger’s Personal
Finance, Money
 Professional advice
 Detailed information
 Standard & Poor’s, Lipper Analytical Services,
Morning star
 Quotations
 Tell NAV, objective, performance, cost
 Prospectuses
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 Tell NAV, objective, performance, cost
 Prospectuses
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Website we looked up
 Annual reports
 Internet
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Section 10.4
Investing in Mutual Funds
income
dividends
the earnings a
fund pays to
shareholders
Return on Investment
As a mutual fund shareholder, you may gain
income in one of three ways. You may:
 Receive income dividends.
 Earn capital gain distributions.
 Make a good return by buying shares at a
low price and then selling them after the
price increases.
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Investing in Mutual Funds
Taxes and Mutual Funds
The following are some general guidelines on
how mutual fund transactions are taxed:
 Income dividends are reported along with
all other dividend amounts you have
received. They are taxed as regular
income.
 Capital gain distributions are reported on
your federal income tax return.
 Capital gains or losses that result from
your selling shares in a mutual fund are
reported on your federal income tax
return.
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Investing in Mutual Funds
Taxing Mutual Funds
When you pay taxes on your mutual funds, you
should be aware that:
 Almost all investment companies allow
you to reinvest the capital gains
distributions and income dividends you
earn instead of receiving cash.
 You decide when to sell your stocks or
bonds.
Thus, you can pick the tax year when you pay
tax or deduct losses on these investments. You
have no control, however, over when the mutual
fund sells securities.
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Investing in Mutual Funds
Buying and Selling Mutual Funds
Mutual funds can provide investors with:
 Income dividends
 Capital gain distributions
 Profits that result from investors’ decision
to sell their shares
Various purchase options and withdrawal
options allow you to manage your mutual fund
investments and profits to help you meet your
financial goals.
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Investing in Mutual Funds
Purchase Options
Before you buy shares in a fund, you will need
to consider several different purchase options.
When you buy shares in an open-end mutual
fund from an investment company, you can
choose:
 Regular account transactions
 Voluntary savings plans
 Payroll deduction plans
 Contractual savings plans
 Reinvestment plans
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Investing in Mutual Funds
Withdrawal Options
If you choose to invest in mutual funds, you will
also need to know how you can take your
money out of a fund.
Your withdrawal options include:
 Selling shares of closed-end funds to
another investor
 Selling shares in an open-end fund to the
investment company that sponsors the
fund
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Investing in Mutual Funds
Withdrawing Money from Mutual Funds
Additional ways of withdrawing money include:
 Investment period withdrawal
 Investment period liquidation
 Asset growth withdrawal
 Dividend and distribution withdrawal
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Key Term Review
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maturity date
face value
debenture
mortgage bond
convertible bond
sinking fund
serial bonds
registered bond
coupon bond
bearer bond
zero-coupon bond
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municipal bond
investment-grade bonds
yield
closed-end fund
open-end fund
net asset value (NAV)
load fund
no-load fund
income dividends
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Chapter 10
Bonds and Mutual Funds
Reviewing Key Concepts
1.
Explain the advantages of the call feature on bonds to
corporations and to investors.
A corporation may choose to buy back its bonds early when
interest rates drop a certain percentage to keep from paying
bondholders interest at the higher rate.
When a company calls its bonds, it may have to pay bondholders
a premium.
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2.
Explain why corporations may prefer to issue bonds to raise
funds for their operations.
Corporations sell bonds to:

Raise money when it is difficult or impossible to sell
stock

Finance regular business activities

Reduce the amount of tax a corporation must pay
because the interest paid to bondholders is taxdeductible
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3.
Explain how the market value of a bond is determined.
A bond’s value can be affected by:

The financial condition of the company that issues it

Changes in the economy

The law of supply and demand
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4.
List three examples of reasons state and local governments
might issue bonds.
The federal government sells bonds and other securities to:

Help fund its regular activities and services

Finance the national debt
Municipal bonds may pay for major projects, such as the
building of:

Airports

Schools

Highways
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Reviewing Key Concepts
5.
Describe the characteristics of a municipal bond, including
tax factors.
A municipal bond is a security issued by a state or local
government to pay for its ongoing activities. The interest on
municipal bonds may be exempt from federal taxes. Tax-exempt
status depends on how the funds generated by the bonds
are used.
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Reviewing Key Concepts
6.
Explain the meaning of bond rating and their impact on
buying decisions.
Before you invest in a particular corporate or municipal bond, you
should check its rating. This rating will give you a good idea of the
quality and risk associated with that bond.
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Bonds and Mutual Funds
Reviewing Key Concepts
7.
Describe the characteristics of a closed-end, open-end, load,
and no-load mutual fund.
A closed-end fund is a mutual fund with a fixed number of shares
that are issued by an investment company when the fund is first
organized.
An open-end fund is a mutual fund with an unlimited number of
shares that are issued and redeemed by an investment company
at the investors’ request.
A load fund is a mutual fund for which you pay a commission
every time you buy or sell shares.
A no-load fund is a mutual fund that has no commission fee.
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Reviewing Key Concepts
8.
Describe a mutual fund prospectus.
The prospectus usually provides the following information:
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A description of the fund’s objective
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The risk factor associated with the fund
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A fee table
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A description of the fund’s past performance
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A description of services provided to investors
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9.
Compare the three ways you can purchase mutual funds.
When you buy shares in an open-end mutual fund from an
investment company, you can choose:
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Regular account transactions
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Voluntary savings plans
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Payroll deduction plans
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Contractual savings plans
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Reinvestment plans
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Newsclip: Reliable Bonds?
A bond fund is a mutual fund comprised mainly of bonds. These
types of funds are usually safe investments with greater
opportunity for returns.
Log On Go to finance07.glencoe.com and open Chapter 10.
Learn more about the different types of bond funds. Write a list of
points you have learned about bond funds. Would you invest in a
bond fund. Why or why not?
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