4. Who accepts all of the risk associated with a mutual fund’s portfolio of stocks and/or bonds?
a. the fund’s managers
b. the fund’s shareholders
c. the federal government
d. the corporations that originally issued the stocks and/or bonds
held by the fund
Answer is option B)
fund's shareholders participate proportionally in gains &losses, in accordance with their investment in mutual funds.
Funds are managed by AMC, asset management company, they implement funds investing strategy & it's trading process, but doesn't bear the risk.
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