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# Advantages and Disadvantages of Mutual Funds

The popularity of mutual funds can be attributed to the numerous advantages that they afford investors, some of which are listed below:

Diversification - Most financial professional believe that diversification is one of the best ways to enhance a portfolio's risk-adjusted return.

Low minimum investment - Mutual funds make it possible for investors with very little cash to own an undivided interest in a diversified portfolio.

Professional management - Mutual funds give investors access to professional managers whose required minimum account size would otherwise put their services out of the reach of many.

A wide range of risk/reward trade-offs - Funds are available with risk levels ranging from the very conservative to the highly speculative.

Convenience â€?This is perhaps one of the most important advantages that mutual funds offer. Conveniences can include 24-hour phone or Internet access to account information, check-writing privileges and automatic investment plans that deduct a specified amount each month from the investor's bank account.

Inexpensive reallocation - Most mutual funds are part of fund families â€?a series of funds with different investment objectives that are all issued by the same parent company. Most fund families allow their shareholders a reasonable number of opportunities per year to switch their money among the various funds within the family with little or no service charges applied. Because of this, mutual fund investors can often reallocate their portfolios at a substantially lower cost than others who invest directly in the underlying securities.

Asset allocation and retirement planning tools - As a service to their shareholders, many mutual fund companies offer free services, such as asset allocation optimization software or retirement planning analyzers, that are designed to help investors select the most appropriate funds for their needs.

A wide range of investment styles - With literally thousands of mutual funds in existence and more being created all the time, the odds are good there's a mutual fund that specializes in investing in virtually every investment vehicle, style, and approach that investors can imagine.

While the advantages are many, mutual funds â€?like all other investments â€?also carry disadvantages that should not be disregarded, including:

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