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Here is a description of the various categories and the sort of
sites that they may contain:
Fund management: [4] Asset management companies and individuals
resonsible specifically for investment funds...
Closed end funds: [2] Closed-end funds generally sell a fixed number
of non-redeemable shares at one time, after which the shares are
not typically purchased or redeemed directly by the fund, but are
bought and sold by investors in the open market...
Fund families: [0] Mutual fund companies offering many mutual
funds, for various objectives. Usually, investors can move assets
between different funds of a fund family at little or no cost, and
can receive a single statement describing their holdings in all
the funds in the fund family...
Fund supermarkets:
[4] A brokerage firm that provides access to
a variety of mutual funds from different fund families...
Hedge funds: [3] Funds, usually used by wealthy individuals
and institutions, that are allowed to use aggressive strategies
that are unavailable to mutual funds, including selling short, leverage,
program trading, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives...
Index funds: [2] A passively managed mutual fund that tries
to mirror the performance of a specific index, such as the FTSE
100...
Individual funds: [1] Individual companies that invest the pooled
funds of retail investors for a fee....
Investment trusts:
[6] Companies that own a portfolio of shares,
giving you access to a wider spread of stocks than you would normally
be able to invest in directly yourself...
Unit trusts & OEICs:
[22] Investment funds which purchase a portfolio
of shares, in which investors can buy units. Investment performance
is linked directly to market conditions...
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