How to Use mutual fund in a Sentence

mutual fund

noun
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  • She invested her money in a mutual fund.
  • What are the drawbacks to placing all of the funds in one mutual fund account?
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 3 Apr. 2021
  • The spreadsheet tracks stock, ETF and mutual fund prices.
    — Rob Berger, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The main risk for any ETF is that they may be closed down, similar to a mutual fund.
    — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • Early this year a report found that the top 10% of households owned 93% of stocks and mutual funds.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 29 May 2024
  • As stated above, there can be as many as 1,238 stocks or more for one mutual fund.
    — David Trainer, Forbes, 10 June 2022
  • For investors in a mutual fund that is up for conversion, there are a few things to keep in mind.
    — Bailey McCann, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • When stocks and bonds are declining in price, the mutual funds that own them won’t be far behind.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2024
  • Follow the money: Walz owns no stocks, not even in mutual funds or ETFs; his net worth is in the low six digits.
    — Felix Salmon, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Their stock and mutual fund wealth has jumped 86%, to just under $37 trillion.
    — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
  • October also marks the end of the fiscal year for many mutual funds in the United States.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Instead, deposits would come from the city, as well as pension funds and green mutual funds.
    — Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • And last month, cashing in a mutual fund, the Phillipses closed on a smaller, more affordable home.
    — Janna Herron, USA TODAY, 24 June 2019
  • Most of her holdings are in mutual funds, split between two IRAs.
    — Zach Everson, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • On the flip side, the mutual fund industry lost around $362 billion.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Has your balance grown as fast as a target-date mutual fund?
    — Janet Kidd Stewart, charlotteobserver, 9 July 2018
  • Like Dolan, Moreno also reported a wide range of stocks, bonds and mutual funds.
    — cleveland, 15 Aug. 2023
  • For starters, a fund has a board of directors, like a mutual fund, that oversees it and must act in the interests of investors.
    — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2021
  • And at least two mutual fund platforms have launched products in tie-ups with Amazon.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Just look at what happened to money market funds, a type of mutual fund that invests in very short-term debt.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2020
  • From stocks and bonds to mutual funds and real estate, there are a plethora of options for those looking to grow their wealth.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • With $222 billion in assets, his Pimco Total Return fund was the largest bond mutual fund in the world.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 20 June 2018
  • In this rocky year for stocks, there were significantly more losers than winners in the mutual fund and ETF world in 2022.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Putnam’s roots in Boston date back to its launch by George Putnam in 1937, in the early years of the mutual fund industry.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Then there’s the Vitium Global mutual fund, formerly known as the Vice Fund.
    — Meir Statman, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
  • That was by far the largest WeWork investment among mutual funds.
    — Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • And the performance of most mutual funds does not justify these costs.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • Despite 2019 turning in the strongest year for stock investors in the last six, investors have been selling stock mutual funds at a record pace.
    — Nancy Tengler, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019
  • After the First World War, a group of speculators promised easy stock-market profits through a new fad: the mutual fund.
    — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • In 2027, Bridger must redeem the bonds, which were purchased by mutual funds and other institutional investors.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024

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