A-Shares. Think: front end load. When a buyer of a mutual fund pays the commission up front and that's it; nothing fancy like paying the commission as you go ("no load") or paying the commission on the back end, i.e. when you sell the mutual fund. Example: You buy a grand worth of The Mutual Fun Fund and pay a 4% load or commission when you buy the A-Shares. Your money managers start out your sojourn with the Fun Fund then with $960 to invest. They'll take an annual fee as well but in funds which charge loads up front, they almost always carry meaningfully lower annual fees.
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everywhere energy, telecom, insurance, real estate, banking, chemicals, tech, retail not
enough diversity yet well those are just sectors or industries and there's a
whole bunch of them what about geography geographic diversity the US, Russia, China
Europe someday maybe Mars Elon what do you think well maybe exposures to [Elon Musk floating in space]
different currencies or commodities cycles as the diversity you seek hmm
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would you want such diversity? well the idea is that you mitigate risk by being
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