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The following is a limited list of mutual-fund families in the United States.A family of mutual funds is a group of funds that are marketed under one or more brand names, usually having the same distributor (the company which handles selling and redeeming shares of the fund in transactions with investors), and investment advisor (which is usually a corporate cousin of the distributor).
D+H office in Markham, Ontario. D+H (originally Davis & Henderson) was a Canadian global payments and lending technology provider serving nearly 8,000 financial institutions, specialty lenders, community banks, credit unions, governments and corporations, including Canada's five largest banks. [3]
In 1936, U.S. mutual fund industry was nearly half as large as closed-end investment trusts. But mutual funds had grown to twice as large as closed-end funds by 1947; growth would accelerate to ten times as much by 1959. In terms of dollar amounts, mutual funds in the U.S. totaled $2 billion in value in 1950 and about $17 billion in 1960. [18]
As of 2019, Capital Group had 36 mutual funds, which operate under their American Funds banner and had about US$1.9 trillion under management. [25] Growth Fund of America, founded in 1973, was the largest actively-managed fund as of 2020 with around $150 billion.
Shelby Davis is noted as an extraordinarily generous philanthropist, especially to educational causes. [16] Among the most significant recipients of his philanthropy are the United World College movement and his own alma mater, Princeton University, [17] of which he served as trustee starting in 2006, [18] and was one of the most generous donors to the university while on the board. [19]
Prominent funds include the Templeton Growth Fund, Inc. (opened 1954), the Mutual Shares fund (opened 1949), and the Mutual Discovery Fund (opened 1992) and the Templeton Growth (Euro) Fund. The Franklin Income Fund (FKINX) is a mutual fund in Morningstar's "conservative allocation" category and "large/value" style box.
In 1992, Gabelli and GAMCO were under an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission that was later settled. [9]In March 2006, a judge determined Mario Gabelli had unfairly prevented Frederick J. Mancheski, a long time investment partner, and David M. Perlmutter, Gabelli's former lawyer, from selling their shares in Gabelli Group Capital Partners at fair market value. [10]
In 1967, they opened the Columbia Growth Fund, the first mutual fund based in Oregon. [2] In 1997, FleetBoston Financial acquired the company for $460 million. [2] In 2001, Columbia acquired mutual funds from Liberty Financial, which were rebranded as Columbia in 2003. [3] In September 2003, the company acquired Crabbe Huson Group. [4]