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Mutual funds can be bought and sold daily. However, unlike equities and other types of securities that trade on the secondary market throughout each trading day, share transactions in a fund are carried out once each day after the close of market at 4 p.m. Eastern Time.
Here are seven deadly mutual fund mistakes to avoid: Mutual Fund Investing Mistake #1: Index Funds Investing. Lots of people say that index funds are the only investment you need, but indexing is not the best answer. Take Vanguardâs 500 Index Fund (MUTF: VFINX), for example. Itâs the familyâs largest fund, with more than $100 billion in assets. In fact, itâs one of the largest mutual funds in the world. But itâs not the safest index fund, nor is it the best-performing index fund. During the tech bear market, investors lost more than $40 billion with the fund. A little more than 18% of the fundâs assets are tied up in just 10 stocks and more than half of its top 25 assets are invested in just three sectors.