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• Business: Investing: Mutual Funds  (280)

About.com: Mutual Funds - - Fund links and articles, tools, and a message board focusing specifically on mutual funds.

CBS MarketWatch: Mutual Funds - - Features fund articles and news, plus tools to help pick and track investments.

The Fund Info Service - - Free mutual fund prospectuses online, by mail, or download in Acrobat PDF format.

FundAlarm - - Provides performance and news notices suggesting when to sell a mutual fund.

Funds 101.com - - Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive offers a collection of articles and opinions by various authors on retirement strategies, kinds of funds, fees, effects of life changes, taxation strategies.

The History of Mutual Funds - - Short article about the history of mutual funds, including where they came from and where they are now.

The History of Mutual Funds - - Link to a paper that provides the history of mutual funds around the worl.

IndexFunds.com - - Information about index funds provided by Index Funds Advisors Inc.

Invest Wisely: An Introduction to Mutual Funds - - Explains the basics of mutual fund investing — how mutual funds work, what factors to consider before investing, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Published by the SEC.

Investment Company Institute - Investor Education Resources - - Offers documents covering mutual funds, closed-end funds, unit investment trusts, general fund facts, and college savings plans (529 plans). Also offers links to investor education resources on other sites.

Investorism.com - - Investment fund disclosure checklist.

Marla Brill's New Investors Digest - - Collection of articles and information aimed at the new mutual fund investor.

Mutual Fund Basics for Women - - Articles geared towards female investors on how to start investing in mutual funds.

Mutual Funds - - How to choose mutual funds, from the Wall Street Journal.

Mutual Funds 101 Email Course - - Free 10-day course designed to be a beginner's guide to mutual fund investing from About.com.

Mutual Funds Manager - - Mutual Funds Manager provides an anonymous mutual fund portfolio manager; allows users to keep a record of their mutual funds transactions - purchase, sale, dividend and capital gains. Includes a transactions search feature.

NASAA Senior Investor Resource Center - - The North American Securities Administration writes about avoiding mutual fund scams, investor rights, plus basic fund information.

Nat. Securities Corp. Fund Education - - Fund information designed to help beginners; written by a national securitites broker.

Quicken.com Mutual Funds - - News shorts and articles on various aspects of funds investment.

Smart Money - Funds - - Weekly news and analysis pertaining to mutual funds, a fund glossary, and many fund tools and screeners.

What is a Mutual Fund? - - GreenJungle is an educational resource for investors offering original articles about investing and money, information about other educational resources, recommended reading, web links.

What is a Mutual Fund? - - Absolute beginners guide to using mutual funds for investing.

Yahoo!: Mutual Funds - - Articles on how to invest in mutual funds.

10 Commandments of Mutual Fund Investing - - From the Journal of Accountancy, a 1999 article with guidelines for CPAs to help them help clients choose and manage mutual fund investments. (August, 1999)