No Load Mutual Fund is described as a kind of Mutual funds that does not need any kind of fees and commissions while buying or redeeming any kind of shares in the Mutual Funds. Load is actually the fee or commission that is paid by a person who invests money to a mutual fund during the time of his redeeming and buying of a particular mutual fund. As the commission or the fees is charged during the redeeming of the shares of a particular mutual fund it is termed as the back-end loan and when the fees or the commission is charged at the time of buying the shares of the mutual fund it is known as the front end loan. Those who go for No Load Mutual Funds normally receive a higher rate of return as they do not have to pay any kind of commissions and fees from the money he has earned.
One Can Have Various Advantages By Dealing Through No Load Mutual Funds
The Load Funds in spite of charging some amount of money does provide any special service to the investor as the money that is charged normally goes to the fund broker. This is not the case with No Load Mutual Funds as one gets the same kind of service by paying no amount of loads.
It has also been observed that not a great deal of difference in return amount between the load and No Load Mutual Funds which encourages the No Load Mutual Fund holders.
The No Load Mutual Fund actually lets one invest the whole amount of money and lets the investor to get return of that but for Load Mutual funds if one pays 10 percent as load and invests an amount of $1000, he is actually investing $900 as $100 is taken away as Load and thus the return decreases automatically.
So it is better for one to invest in No Load Mutual Funds as it is effective and provides a higher rate of return.
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Professor at Columbia University. Recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 & the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. Author of "Freefall: America, Free Markets", "The Sinking of the World Economy", "Globalisation and its Discontents" & "Making Globalisation Work".
Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. IMF’s Chief Economist from September 2003 to January 2007. Inaugural recipient of the Fischer Black Prize.
Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. Former Turkish Minister of State for Economic Affairs. Head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) from 2005-2009.