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Mutual Fund Calculator

Project a fund with a net-of-fees return, an optional front-end load and rising contributions.

Open Mutual Fund Calculator and you get an answer straight away, with no account to create. Its place is under Investing & markets; Index Fund Calculator and Fund expense ratio cost calculator answer the questions closest to this one.

How to use it

  1. Open the tool — no signup or install needed.
  2. Enter your input or adjust the available options.
  3. Get your result instantly, then copy or download it.

Frequently asked questions

What does Mutual Fund Calculator do?

Project a fund with a net-of-fees return, an optional front-end load and rising contributions.

When would I actually use this?

Comparing two investments that pay at different times, deciding whether a project clears its cost of capital, and sanity-checking a valuation someone else produced.

What is the most common mistake?

Trusting a valuation without asking what share of it comes from the terminal value. Past 70%, the answer is an assumption about the distant future dressed up as a calculation.

How is Mutual Fund Calculator different from Index Fund Calculator?

They sit next to each other but answer different questions: Index Fund Calculator is the one to open when you need it to project the future value of an index fund from a lump sum and monthly contributions, net of the expense ratio. Pick whichever matches what you're starting from — both are free.

Is there a tool for the next step?

Fund expense ratio cost calculator is the closest one after this: Estimate the fees an investment fund charges over time from its expense ratio.

What else is worth having open alongside it?

Emergency fund calculator and Capital Gains Yield Calculator — they come up in the same task often enough to be worth a second tab.

Where do the figures come from?

Discounting, IRR and payback are defined identically everywhere, so the arithmetic is not in dispute — the assumptions you feed it are. Change the discount rate by a point and re-read the answer.

Further reading

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ExplainerWhat a 1 Percent Fee Costs Over 30 YearsA one-point difference in annual charges turns $75,063 into $57,435 on the same $10,000. The fee costs more than the sum invested — here is why compounding does that.ExplainerPrice Return, Total Return and Yield Are Three Different NumbersThe index quoted in the news is almost always a price index. At 5 percent price growth and a 2.5 percent reinvested yield, 30 years turn $10,000 into $43,219 on price and $90,656 on total return — the price measure misses 58.8 percent of the gain.ExplainerDividend Reinvestment: What Actually Drives the DifferenceReinvesting a 3 percent yield for 30 years turns 100 shares into 242.7 and multiplies the final position by exactly that factor: $32,434 becomes $78,726. Tax at 30 percent on each dividend costs $18,223 of it — nearly two and a half times the tax actually paid.ExplainerTax-Equivalent Yield: Comparing a Tax-Free Bond With a Taxable OneTaxable-equivalent yield = tax-free yield ÷ (1 − marginal rate). A 3.00 percent tax-free yield is worth 3.85 percent at a 22 percent marginal rate and 5.07 percent at 40.8 percent. The trap is that it is the marginal rate, surtaxes and social levies included — leaving them out costs 0.85 points of yield.ExplainerWhat Is an Index Fund? How Passive Investing WorksAn index fund tracks a whole market instead of betting on winners. Learn how tracking works, why diversification and low fees matter, and how it stacks up against active funds.ExplainerWhat Is Dividend Yield? Formula, Examples and TrapsDividend yield sounds simple — dividend divided by price — but a high number can be a warning sign. Here is how to read it and why total return matters more.