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  2. MFS Investment Management - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded in 1924 by Sherman Adams, Charles H. Learoyd and Ashton L. Carr. L. [3] The company's oldest fund is the Massachusetts Investors Trust, a mutual fund created with $50,000 at the company's inception and reported to be "the world's first open-end investment fund". [3]

  3. Alfred Winslow Jones - Wikipedia

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    During the 1940s Jones worked for Fortune magazine and wrote articles on non-financial subjects such as Atlantic convoys, farm cooperatives, and boys' prep schools. [8] In March 1949, Jones was investigating technical methods of market analysis for an article titled "Fashions in Forecasting", reporting on a new class of stock-market timers and the approaches they employed to call the market.

  4. Mutual fund - Wikipedia

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    A mutual fund is an investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities.The term is typically used in the United States, Canada, and India, while similar structures across the globe include the SICAV in Europe ('investment company with variable capital'), and the open-ended investment company (OEIC) in the UK.

  5. Henry B. R. Brown - Wikipedia

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    Sitting around their office in August 1969 and brainstorming, Bent suggested that a mutual fund could be created that would allow small investors to combine their resources and gain access to the higher yields available from purchasing a pool of CDs and commercial paper. Neither of them knew anything about the intricacies and legalities of ...

  6. John Templeton - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) [1] was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist.In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, [2] which averaged growth over 15% per year for 38 years. [3]

  7. What are mutual funds? - AOL

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    A mutual fund is a type of pooled investment fund in which many people own shares. Mutual funds invest in many different companies, and some even invest in the entire stock market.

  8. John C. Bogle - Wikipedia

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    John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (May 8, 1929 – January 16, 2019) was an American investor, business magnate and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive of The Vanguard Group and is credited with popularizing the index fund.

  9. Franklin Templeton Investments - Wikipedia

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    The Franklin Income Fund (FKINX) is a mutual fund in Morningstar's "conservative allocation" category and "large/value" style box. The fund was created in 1948 and has paid uninterrupted dividends for 60 years. The Franklin Income Fund is constructed primarily of dividend-paying stocks and bonds (2%).