Information About Mutual Funds Loads
A load is the fee or sales charge that an investor has to pay to buy certain mutual funds. Simply you can say load is a sales commission charged by mutual fund on the purchase or sale of securities by investors. Not all mutual funds have loads. Funds without loads are called No load mutual funds.
Brokers charge front-end loads when you purchase the securities. They fix a specific percentage of front-end load and such amount is deducted from your fund when you make investment. The value of the investment is then reduced by the amount of the load.
Funds that have back-end loads don’t charge any fee at time of purchase of shares but when you sell your shares, you have to pay some fee. Back-end load is a sales commission that a mutual fund company charges at the time of redemption of your shares. In level load funds no sales charge is paid when buying the shares, but a back-end load may be charged if the shares purchased are sold within a year.
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