Mutual Funds, Plural A fund family is a group of mutual funds collectively offered by a mutual fund company. Worth's readers said the best fund family was The Vanguard Group . Click their name and you'll see a list of Vanguard's open funds with a search tool and a pull-down chart that you can use to compare any two funds by several criteria such as fees, minimum initial investment and whether the objective of the fund family is to bring in current income or appreciate over time. Worth declared the best full-service broker to be A.G. Edwards . You need only complete a free registration to receive access to research reports , investment strategies and several financial needs calculators .
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Here's a link to the sign-up page . Worth's readers gave the category of best discount broker to Vanguard , making it the only firm to win more than one category in the survey. Vanguard's brokerage area offers stock quotes and historical price charts , several newsletters and online trading . Here's where you sign up . Virtually E-brokers are firms that facilitate your online trading .