It is always advisable if we become familiar with various terms related to Mutual funds: Mutual Fund Glossary. This shall give us a better understanding of the documents and literature pertaining to Mutual Funds.
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- 12B-1 Fees
- 12B-1 Plan
- 3C7
A[]
- A-Share
- Absolute Return
- Accredited Investor
- Accumulation Plan
- Active Management
- Active Risk
- Aggressive Growth Fund
- Algorithmic Trading
- All Weather Fund
- Anti-Reciprocal Rule
- Appraisal Ratio
- Approved List
- Asset Allocation
- Asset Allocation Fund - AAF
- Assets Under Management - AUM
- Automatic Investment Plan
- Automatic Reinvestment Plan
- Average Annual Return - AAR
B[]
- B-Share
- Back-End Load
- Balanced Fund
- Benchmark
- Blend Fund
- Bogey
- Bond Fund
- Breakpoint
- Breakpoint Sale
C[]
- C-Share
- Calmar Ratio
- Canadian Securities Course(TM) - CSC(TM)
- Capital Appreciation Fund
- Capital Gains Distribution
- Capital Gains Exposure - CGE
- Capital Guaratee Fund
- Captive Fund
- Certified Fund Specialist - CFS
- Class
- Clone Fund
- Closed-End Investment
- Closed-End Management Company
- Collective Fund
- Commingled Fund
- Commingling (Commingled)
- Commodity Pool
- Conduit Theory
- Conservative Growth
- Contingent Deferred Sales Charge - CDSC
- Core Plus
- Creation Unit
- Crossover Fund
- Current Income
D[]
- Debt Fund
- Dedicated Portfolio
- Demutualization
- Diamonds
- Diversified Common Stock Fund
- Diversified Fund
- Drawdown
- Dual Purpose Fund
E[]
- Efficient Frontier
- Emerging Market Fund
- Equity Fund
- Equity Income
- Exchange Privilege
- Expense Ratio
F[]
- Fair Weather Fund
- Family of Funds
- Feeder Fund
- Final Prospectus
- Fixed-Income Style Box
- Focused Fund
- Form 1099-DIV
- Forward Pricing
- Foul Weather Fund
- Front-End Load
- Fund Manager
- Fund of Funds
- Funds From Operations - FFO
G[]
- Gilt Fund
- Global Fund
- Growth Fund
H[]
- High Watermark
I[]
- Income Fund
- Income Share
- Income Trust
- Incubated Fund
- Incubation
- Index Fund
- Index Hugger
- Information Ratio
- Institutional Fund
- Institutional Shares
- International Equity Style Box
- International Fund
- Interval Fund (Scheme)
- Investment Company
- Investment Company Act of 1940
- Investor Shares
J[]
K[]
L[]
- Late-Day Trading
- Level Load
- Lifestyle Fund
- Load
- Load Fund
- Load Spread Option
- Long/Short Fund
M[]
- Managed Account
- Managed Money
- Management Fee
- Management Risk
- Manager Universe (Benchmark)
- Market Neutral
- Master Fund
- Master Trust
- Mirror Fund
- Modified Dietz Method
- Momentum Fund
- Money Market Fund
- Morgan Stanley Capital International - MSCI
- Morningstar Risk Rating
- Multi-Advisor Fund
- Multi-Discipline Account
- Municipal Bond Fund
- Mutual Fund Custodian
- Mutual Fund Liquidity Ratio
- Mutual Fund Subadvisor
- Mutual Fund Timing
- Mutual-Fund Advisory Program
N[]
- Net Asset Value - NAV
- Net Asset Value Per Share - NAVPS
- No-Load Fund
- Nontaxable Dividends
- Nova/Ursa Ratio
O[]
- Offering Memorandum
- Offshore Mutual Fund
- Open Ended Investment Company - OEIC
- Open-End Fund
- Open-End Management Company
- Optimized Portfolio as Listed Securities - OPALS
- Overweight
P[]
- Passive Foreign Investment Company - PFIC
- Passive Management
- Pipeline
- Pipeline Theory
- Pooled Funds
- Portfolio
- Portfolio Income
- Portfolio Insurance
- Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Manager
- Portfolio Pumping
- Portfolio Turnover
- Private Investment in Public Equity - PIPE
- Prospectus
- Protected Fund
Q[]
- Quant Fund
R[]
- R-Squared
- Reclassification
- Redemption
- Regional Fund
- Regulated Investment Company - RIC
- Relative Return
- Rights of Accumulation - ROA
- Risk-Adjusted Return
S[]
- S&P Phenomenon
- Sales Charge
- Sector Fund
- Sector Rotation
- Series 6
- Service Shares
- Sharpe Ratio
- Short Form Prospectus Distribution System - SFPDS
- Short-Term Investment Fund - STIF
- Single-Country Fund
- Société d'Investissement À Capital Variable - SICAV
- Soft Dollars
- Spiders - SPDRs
- Spread-Load Contractual Plan
- Sterling Ratio
- Strategic Asset Allocation
- Style
- Style Box
- Style Drift
- Sub-Advised Fund
- Super NOW Account
- Survivorship Bias
- Switching
- Systematic Withdrawal Plan - SWP
T[]
- Tactical Asset Allocation - TAA
- Third-Party Distributor
- Total Expense Ratio - TER
- Tracker Fund
- Trailer Fee
- Trust Deed
- Turnover Ratio
U[]
- Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities - UCITS
- Underweight
- Unit Investment Trust - UIT
- Unit Trust - UT
V[]
- Value Added Monthly Index - VAMI
- Value at Risk - VaR
- Value Fund
- Venture Capital Funds
- Volume Weighted Average Price - VWAP
- Voluntary Accumulation Plan
- Vulture Fund
W[]
- Weighted Average Credit Rating
- Window Dressing
- Withdrawal Plan
- World Equity Benchmark Series - WEBS
- Wrap Account