They also tend to have a lower 12b - 1 fee and lower annual expenses than
other mutual fund share classes.
Not exact matches
Other tax - efficient options that you might consider, Dale, include corporate
class mutual funds or ETFs that result in less tax than their traditional counterparts, flow - through
shares, life insurance products or direct real estate investment.
As for
other funds offered in the plan, the complaint says that, rather than taking advantage of the plan's economies of scale, as required by its investment policy statement (IPS), to reduce the investment expenses charged to plan participants, Philips North America selected and maintained high - priced
share classes of
mutual funds, instead of identical lower - cost
share classes of those same
mutual funds which were readily available to the plan.
Each of the
other funds in the Heartland family of value investment focused
mutual funds also offers an institutional
share class.
Plaintiffs argue it was inappropriate to allow three recordkeepers to supply the plans with a separate menu of investment choices, including
mutual fund share classes that charged higher fees than
other alternatives that offered the same investment strategies or less expensive
share classes of the exact same investment
fund — or both.
Plaintiffs argue it was inappropriate to allow each of these recordkeepers to supply the plans with a separate menu of investment choices including
mutual fund share classes that charged higher fees than
other alternatives that offered the same investment strategies or less expensive
share classes of the exact same investment
fund — or both.
Shareholders may be eligible for a reduced sales charge on their investments in
class A or
class M
shares by combining their present purchase of
shares with purchases of
other Putnam
mutual fund shares (except money market
funds) made at the same time, including purchases made through financial advisors.
• What
mutual fund share class letters really mean (A, B, C, and
other types
shares), and why financial advisors really tout one kind over another.