As charges of illegal trading pile up, what are investors supposed to do? Are all mutual funds tainted? Could yours go belly-up? Should you bail out? First of all, don't panic. Most of the roughly 650 firms that run mutual funds have not been accused of doing anything wrong. When the investigations are over, many will be proved entirely trustworthy. And as for funds run by companies that are found guilty, there are limits to how low they can go. By law, a mutual fund can never go bankrupt. It cannot become insolvent unless all the stocks and bonds it owns...
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