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The Mutual Fund Store 
Industry Investment services Founded 1996 Headquarters Overland Park, KS Key people Adam Bold, Founder
Chris Braudis, PresidentWebsite MutualFundStore.com [1] The Mutual Fund Store, founded by Adam Bold in 1996, is a financial advisory company headquartered in Overland Park, KS with more than 70 locations in the United States.[1] Collectively, advisers managed more than $6.5 billion in assets for more than 32,000 clients as of June 30, 2011.[2]
The company focuses primarily on individual investors. The Mutual Fund Store is the nation's first nationally branded fee-based investment advisory firm for the mass affluent.[3] The Mutual Fund Store is not traded publicly on stock exchanges.
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Business model
The Mutual Fund Store office, Livonia, Michigan
The Mutual Fund Store provides investment advice to clients with as little as $50,000 using actively managed no-load and load-waived mutual funds. The Mutual Fund Store is a fee-based investment advisory service, meaning clients pay a quarterly fee based on their account value for investment advice and actively managed portfolios. Because investment advisors are fee-based, they accept no incentives, commissions or benefits from fund companies, therefore, maintaining their independence.[4]The company's investment advisors profile a client’s investment risk and goals, then allocate assets into a variety of mutual funds across several asset classes to provide diversification.[5] Asset allocation recommendations are provided by The Mutual Fund Research Center, using the Nobel Prize-winning concepts of Modern Portfolio Theory, which found that through intelligent diversification one can reduce the investment risks contained in a single or limited investment, and gains in one investment may help offset losses in another.
Awards and rankings
- Wealth Manager 2008, 2009 and 2010 annual surveys: No. 1 in total client relationships among financial advisers not registered as broker/dealers, banks or trusts.[6]
- Wealth Manager 2010 survey: No. 3 in client assets under management as of June 30, 2010 among financial advisers not registered as broker/dealers, banks or trusts.[7]
- Investment News 2011 survey: No. 3 on March 31, 2011 in discretionary client assets under management among fee-only Registered Investment Advisers not doing business as a broker-dealer and not charging commissions.[8]
- Inc. (magazine) 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies: named four years in a row through 2010, including No. 1,386 in 2007, its first year on the list.[9]
References
- ^ MutualFundStore.com: Office Locator (http://mutualfundstore.com/map.asp?enteredzip=00000&form=office). Accessed Dec. 7, 2010.
- ^ MutualFundStore.com: Corporate (http://www.mutualfundstore.com/Corporate.aspx). Accessed August 1, 2011.
- ^ Kansas City Business Journal, "Bold idea changes face of investing in mutual funds": (http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2007/04/09/editorial3.html). Accessed May 9, 2009.
- ^ MutualFundStore.com: About (http://www.mutualfundstore.com/about.aspx). Accessed January 25, 2010.
- ^ MutualFundStore.com: About Us (http://www.mutualfundstore.com/about_us.asp). Accessed May 17, 2009.
- ^ http://www.wealthmanagerweb.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/WMGR_Top%2050_List%20Q309%2012%2017%2009.pdf
- ^ http://www.wealthmanagerweb.com/SiteCollectionDocuments/WMGR_Top%2050_List%20Q309%2012%2017%2009.pdf
- ^ http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=datajoe&djoPage=summary&djoProjStr=22974%7C22989&issuedate=20110529&sid=RIA0529
- ^ Inc.com (http://www.inc.com/inc5000/). Accessed May 4, 2009.
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Categories:- Companies based in the Kansas City metropolitan area
- Companies established in 1996
- Financial services companies of the United States
- Financial services companies
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