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Summary: No-load funds are investment funds with no expense or management fees. Understand the risk and rewards of no-load funds with advice from an experienced financial adviser in this free video.
Patrick Munro's affinity for investing and financial matters began more than 20 years ago with business education and service throughout the ranks of the banking, insurance and...read more
"In the world of financial planning there are various instruments to build wealth, one of those is mutual funds. There are "load funds", in other words funds that have a fee attached to them before you buy them. And then there are the more popular "no-load funds". What happens is all of your money goes directly into the investment so that you're able to participate in the growth of a group of companies, or in fact one company going forward. There are no expense fees or management fees, or any fee to drag down the performance of the fund, but in many cases a no-load fund has a lesser of a specialty nature, less resources that have gone into the management of it, so therefore load funds also are popular. However when budget is a concern no-load funds are the way to go. This is Patrick Munro talking about the benefits of no-load mutual funds."