Brief Overview of Mutual Funds: History, Benefits, Comparison to Stocks

Mutual funds give people the opportunity to save money through the stock market. They are an ideal way to avoid the complications of picking individual stocks and are managed by some of the best financial minds in the world. I'm going to talk a little about the history of mutual funds, some benefits of them, and some statistics of how they have done in the market over the years.
So what exactly are mutual funds? A mutual fund is a single investment that contains a portfolio of individual stocks or fixed income securities, such as bonds. …