Mutual offset
A system, such as the arrangement between the CME and simex, which allows trading positions established on one exchange to be offset or transferred on another exchange. |
Similar financial terms
Objective (mutual funds)The fund's investment strategy category as stated in the prospectus. There are more than 20 standardized categories.
No load mutual fund
An open-end investment company, shares of which are sold without a sales charge. There can be other distribution charges, however, such as Article 12B-1 fees. A true "no load" fund will have neither a sales charge nor a distribution fee.
Mutually exclusive investment decisions
Investment decisions in which the acceptance of a project precludes the acceptance of one or more alternative projects.
Mutual fund theorem
A result associated with the CAPM, asserting that investors will choose to invest their entire risky portfolio in a market-index or mutual fund.
Mutual fund
Mutual funds are pools of money that are managed by an investment company. They offer investors a variety of goals, depending on the fund and its investment charter. Some funds, for example, seek to generate income on a regular basis. Others seek to preserve an investor's money. Still others seek to invest in companies that are growing at a rapid pace. Funds can impose a sales charge, or load, on investors when they buy or sell shares. Many funds these days are no load and impose no sales ch ...
Balanced mutual fund
This is a fund that buys common stock, preferred stock and bonds. The same as a balanced fund.
Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT)
An agreement among the U.S. and many Caribbean countries for the exchange of information for the enforcement of criminal laws. U.S. tax evasion is excluded as not being a crime to the offshore countries. The British Virgin Islands have not executed the Treaty.
Mutual Fund Switching Privileges
Allow an investor to switch out of and into a different fund(s) within the same family of funds at very low or no compensation.
Offset
Liquidating a purchase of futures contracts through the sale of an equal number of contracts of the same delivery month, or liquidating a short sale of futures through the purchase of an equal number of contracts of the same delivery month.
