| Half of all the households in America invest in | | | | your money in a mutual fund does not necessarily |
| mutual funds. For most people mutual fund | | | | give you good returns. How can you make |
| investment is better than keeping money in the | | | | money from mutual funds? |
| bank. Mutual funds are companies that invest | | | | Income from mutual funds is earned from |
| money in stocks, bonds and other securities. | | | | dividends on stocks and interest on bonds. |
| When you buy mutual funds your money is a | | | | If securities have increased in price and the |
| portion of the holdings of the fund. Make money | | | | fund decides to sell the securities, then the fund |
| in Mutual funds in a sure and safer way rather | | | | has made a capital gain which it passes on to its |
| than following the swings on Wall Street. | | | | investors. |
| Not all mutual funds have delivered and putting | | | | |