My credentials include over 20 years in financial services communications, over 18 years of breeding and showing purebred cats, nearly 5 years of experience as a CFA-licensed cat show judge, 2 CDs of original cabaret songs, and an obsession with fine food and wine that dates back to my college years (slightly after the Black Death but before Columbus discovered America).

I was recently laid off from the communications department of a very well-known mutual fund company and am now exploring a number of new ventures, including freelance writing and editing, feline health/behavior consulting, and of course, my songwriting and cabaret performance projects.

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Personal Finance > Mutual Funds Mutual funds: Net asset value explained

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Most industry definitions of "net asset value," or "NAV", do anything BUT make it easy for the average investor to understand. As soon as you start thinking about calculating a fund's assets relative to its liabilities and the number of shares outstanding, your eyes just may start to glaze over! Fortunately, there's a much simpler way to look at NAV and how it affects your investment - which is, after all, the most important thing most of us need to know.

Don't worry about how NAV is computed right now. Just think of it as the price you pay for one share of a mutual fund at a particular ...

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