Here's another question: Who benefits from the sales charges that a load fund imposes? Why, the oh-so-wise broker who steered you into the fund. You don't benefit at all - in fact, usually quite ...

Hillman Value Fund earns a High Process Pillar rating. The largest contributor to the rating is the firm's retention rate of the firm's portfolio managers, which is 100% over the available data ...

Those funds are called "load funds." (Funds that do not impose sales charges are known as "no-loads.") Those sales charges are either a cut of new money you put into the fund, or a cut of ...

Kinetics The Global Fund earns an Above Average Process Pillar rating. The leading factor in the rating is its parent firm's superior long-term risk-adjusted performance, as shown by the firm's ...

A sales load is a fee (charged as a percentage of their invested balance) that an investor pays to their broker when they purchase or redeem shares of a mutual fund. When an investor purchases or ...

With investing, as with most things in life, cost matters. Every dollar you pay in fees on your investments is a dollar that isn't going toward generating returns on your money. Fewer expenses ...