Which is probably fascinating information for investors who own small-cap funds.

But only 44 percent said they owned stocks or mutual funds, down from 56 percent in the first half of 2000.

Investors who own several mutual funds may wonder whether the funds all buy the same stocks.

And anyone who owns funds outside tax-deferred retirement accounts has to pay taxes on gains.

More than half of American households owned stocks and mutual funds in 2005.

As you go up the ladder asking people what the boundary is, they say no to several things like owning mutual funds.

He has never owned stocks, bonds or mutual funds.

But for the millions of people who own no-load mutual funds, commission charges are no deterrent.

At the end of the year, that average person owned such funds with a value of $4,074.

A majority of the senators own mutual funds, rather than individual stocks.