In 1990, 1995 and in 2000, how many mutual funds were there in each of
the following three classifications: stock, bond, and money market?

Hello,

The Investment Company Institute (see link below) is a great source of
information on this subject:

"
Since 1961, the Institute has published an annual compilation of facts
and figures on the U.S. mutual fund industry.
"

From page 4 of their U.S. Industry Totals (see link below), they have
information on the number of funds for Equity (or stock) Funds, Hybrid
Funds, Bond Funds, Taxable Money Market Funds, and Tax-Exempt Money
Market Funds. They have information dating yearly back to 1970 but as
per your request, I'll only include 1990, 1995, and 2000. The rest of
the data is of course available a the link provided.

				Taxable		Tax-Exempt
	Equity	Hybrid	Bond	Money		Money Market
	Funds	Funds	Funds	Market Funds	Funds		Total
1990	1,099	193	1,046	506		235		3,079
1995	2,139	412	2,177	674		323		5,725
2000	4,385	523	2,208	703		336		8,155


This is the data you're looking for, and for an in-depth analysis
including market share and total assets moved by dollar, I refer you
to their full 2002 edition of the Mutual Fund Fact Book (link below).
I'm glad I could help you find the information you were looking for.



Search Strategy:

"number +of mutual funds"  on google:
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Additional Links:

U.S. Industry Totals:
http://www.ici.org/pdf/02fb_datasec1.pdf

Mutual Fund Fact Book 2002 Edition:
http://www.ici.org/aboutfunds/factbook02_toc.html


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answer satisfactory, please feel free to rate it. Thank you!

skermit-ga

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Clarification of Answer by skermit-ga on 24 Nov 2002 18:53 PST

Arrgh, I had a feeling the formatting would get crunched, so here are
the column headers separated:

Equity Funds
Hybrid Funds
Bond Funds
Taxable Money Market Funds
Tax-Exempt Money Market Funds
Total

skermit-ga

Complete answer in a very short time.