If you own mutual funds, year-end payouts can trigger a surprise tax bill — even when you haven't sold the underlying investment. But some lawmakers want to change that. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, ...

A mutual fund is an investment company that takes money from multiple investors and uses it to purchase securities, which are tradable assets such as stocks and bonds. An investor in a mutual fund ...

Perhaps the most obvious difference is how investors trade ETFs and mutual funds. ETFs trade like stocks: Investors buy or sell them on a stock exchange. By comparison, mutual fund investors transact ...

When mutual fund managers make trades within a fund, even if individual investors never sell a single share, investors are often hit with surprise capital gains taxes. That means they’re taxed on ...