MUTUAL FUNDS ARE CONVENIENT FOR MANY REASONS

In this tutorial, you learned much of what makes mutual funds so convenient as investments. You can use this information to help you decide whether to invest in them. You can set up individual retirement accounts with them. You can have dividend checks mailed to you. Some funds include check-writing privileges.

This concludes our look at the advantages of mutual funds. We have focused on services that mutual funds provide that other investments in individual securities do not. To learn about mutual funds in general or specific properties of mutual funds, please see the other tutorials that cover them.