What is mutual fund ?

Once a year the financial weekly newspaper Barrons has a total issue completely devoted to the
many hundreds of american Mutual funds as well as a fairly complete list of them. An annual subscription to
Barrons is a fairly pricey thing nowadays, but they also sell individual issue copies at various newsstands.
Your public library also will often have a subscription to them too. Yes...they take securities investors. They
function similarly to ETFs' exchange traded funds in logic but have preceded them in history, so they have
operational differences compared to ETF's. I'll bet there's a bang-up description of Mutual funds at
www.wikipedia.org. But otherwise, I'll have to defer to the Sysadmin here.