Chapter 4 - Investment Companies Flashcards
Investment Company is?
Regulated by? Must register under?
A financial institution principally engaged in investing in securities
They pool investors money and invest the funds in securities to achieve stated goals
Regulated by the SEC and must register under the Investment Company Act of 1940
Most appealing aspects of investment companies are? (3)
Investment companies are designed for ______ not short term trading
Diversification
Liquidity
Professional Management with funds
Long Term Investing
Three Classifications of Investment Companies are?
Face Amount Certificate Companies
Unit Investment Trusts (UITs)
Management Companies
Face Amount Certificate Companies issue what?
Debt certificates at a discount that pay purchasers a stated face value at maturity
Unit Investment Trusts issue?
Meaning?
Only redeemable units
When you want your money back you don’t sell in the secondary market. You go back to the issuing investment trust and redeem your units to get money back
Unit Investment trusts generally have a fixed portfolio of diverse _____ or _____ _____
(3 words)
UITs do ____ have a portfolio manager
Municipal or Corporate Bonds
Not
UITs are ____ but not managed meaning securities in the portfolio may be sold, but the funds are not ____
UITs charge little or no ____ and a low ____
Have a ___ indenture and a Board of _____
Supervised
Reinvested
Management Fee, Percentage Sales Charge
Trust, Trustees
UITs pay investors ____ not _____
UITs are terminated once all the bonds in the trust have _____
Some UITs provide investors with payment options such as _____ ______
Interest, Dividends
Matured
Quantity Discounts (Break Point Discounts)
Types of Management Companies are?
Open End
Closed End
Diversified
Non-Diversified
Open End Management Companies description
Issue and redeem shares every business day
Closed End Management Company description
Issue shares once, which are then publicly traded
Diversified Companies description?
Most funds are this
Has at least 75% of assets regulated so that not more than 5% of its assets are invested in one corporation and it does not own more than 10% of the outstanding voting stock of any one company
Non Diversified Management Company description
Assets are not regulated
Open End Investment Company are also referred to as?
Mutual Funds
In mutual fund mutuality means?
Considered _____ liquid since shares are issued and redeemed daily
Not insured by FDIC
All shareholders share proportionately in the funds gains, losses, and income
Highly
Open End Investment Companies issue only _____ shares
Meaning?
Redeemable
Do not trade in a secondary market and must be redeemed by investment company
Open End Investment Companies can only issue ______. Not senior securities (proffered stock and bonds)
Voting Common Shares
Net Asset Value Per Share formula (NAV)
(Total Assets of the fund- total liabilities)/Total # of shares outstanding
Divided by Total Number of Shares outstanding
NAV means
Net Asset Value Per Share
NAV reflects ____ value of all securities in the funds portfolio plus any ____ or ____ income received
Closing Market
Interest or Dividend
Bid = ____ = _____
NAV/Redemption Price
Ask=____ + ______ = Offering Price
NAV, Max Sales Load
For Open End…bid and ask are calculated ____ usually at the close of NYSE trading
Daily
Forward Pricing is required when buying or selling shares of Open End companies. Meaning?
Investors get the NEXT calculated bid or ask price (as of the market close) after the order is entered
Increase in NAV is best described as?
Appreciation
No Load Fund is a mutual fund which does not charge a ______. Thus the bid and ask are _____.
Sales Load
The same
Capitalization constantly changes in a mutual fund because shares are issued and redeemed ____
Daily
Net Redemptions means
More investors have redeemed shares (sold) than those who have purchased new shares
Mutual Funds can ____ be purchased on margin
Not
Maximum sales load under the Investment Company Act of 1940 is _____
Under FINRA rules it’s ______ (NEED TO KNOW DAY TO DAY)
9%
8.5%
Redeemable Only means _____
Not Redeemable means ____
Not Marketable
Marketable
Closed End Investment Companies do not issue _____ shares. Shares trade on an _____ or ______
Redeemable
Exchange or OTC
In a Closed End Investment Company NAV does not necessarily relate to _____ &______
Prices are determined by ____
Bid & Ask
Supply and Demand
Whenever the NAV per share of a fund is GREATER than the ASK (fund shares are selling at a discount to the NAV) fund must be a _____ fund
Closed End
No sales load is charged on a closed end fund. _____ are charged.
Commissions
A Closed End investment company has a ____ capitalization because a fixed number of shares are issued
Fixed
Closed End Companies may issue ____, _____, and _____.
Common Stock
Preferred stock
Bonds
When looking at a price quote for a closed end fund, the last column is the % difference. This indicates that todays closing price is X% higher or lower than the ______
Previous Days Closing Price
Business Development Company (BDC)
Is a closed end investment company that provides ______ to ______ that cannot otherwise easily raise capital
Targeted BDC investors are _____ with _____
Like REITS, BDCs are required to distribute at least ____ of their income as dividends
Debt Capital to Small and Medium Sized companies
Retail Clients with high risk tolerance
90%
BDCs provide high dividend yields but along with this comes risks like:
Credit = BDCs are sub-prime lenders. Companies they lend to are rated junk
Market = BDC shares are very volatile
Leverage = make money borrowing at low interest rates and lending at higher interest rates. Overleveraging can cause problems due to relatively illiquid portfolio
Both Open End and Closed End companies are subject to _____. The major difference between closed end and and open end funds is the ______
Market Risk
Capitalization
Voting shareholders of a fund must either attend the annual shareholders meeting or receive a proxy. And would vote to:
(3 things)
- Elect The Board of directors of the fund
- Change investment objectives of fund
- Change the investment advisory firm used by the fund