The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged Ameriprise with selling retirement - account customers high - cost
mutual fund share classes when less - expensive share classes were available.
Ameriprise recommended and sold these customers more expensive
mutual fund share classes when less expensive share classes were available.
Not exact matches
This is for
mutual funds with
share classes decided
when shareholders pay the
fund's load or sales charge,
Class - B
shares carry a deferred sales charge during a five - to 10 - year holding period intended from the time of the initial investment.
Not sure if this is still true, but
when Vanguard launched their ETFs, I read somewhere that they used a patented method whereby the ETF
shares were a unique
class of interest tied to their
mutual funds that track the same indices.
I googled it found that «A contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) is a fee (sales charge or load) that
mutual fund investors pay
when selling
Class - B
fund shares within a specified number of years of the date on which they were originally purchased.
When it comes to selecting
mutual funds for a defined contribution (DC) plan's investment menu, plan sponsors can encounter an alphabet soup of different
share classes with varying fee structures sprinkled in — and that's ultimately what sets them apart.
The SEC is very clear in those few times
when it says it may not fully prosecute prior securities law violations; a good example of how the SEC tends to approach those instances was its recent offer to investment advisers with potential fiduciary duty violations in connection with
mutual fund share class selections to voluntarily discuss those violations with the SEC.