List of mutual-fund families in the United States
The following is a limited list of mutual-fund families in the United States. A family of
brand names
, usually having the same distributor (the company which handles selling and redeeming shares of the fund in transactions with investors), and investment advisor (which is usually a corporate cousin of the distributor).
There are several hundred families of registered mutual funds in the United States, some with a single fund and others offering dozens. Many fund families are units of a larger financial services company such as an asset manager, bank,
stock brokerage, or insurance company. Additionally, multiple funds in a family can be part of the same corporate structure; that is, one underlying corporation
or business trust may divide itself into more than one fund, each of which issues shares separately.