Investments: Investment Companies Flashcards
What are the three types of investment companies?
- close end
- Open end
- Unit Investment Trust (UIT)
Closed End Funds
- fixed initial market capitalization - specific number of shares sold to the public.
- shares traded on an exchange, no new shares issued.
- shares may trade at a premium or discount to net asset value
Open end funds
- have an unlimited number of shares.
- when contributions are receives they issue more shares
- shares are bought and redeemed directly from the fund family.
- shares are traded at Net Asset Value (NAV)
NAV = (assets-liabilities)/shares outstanding.
Unit Investment Trust
- can be equity or fixed income
- managed by trustee, no investment manager
- passively managed and self liquidating.
- issues units not shares
- units can be sold back to the UIT at NAV
Mutual fund: Aggressive Growth
Invest in small caps, highest potential for capital appreciation
Mutual fund - Growth
Invest in equities with a high P/E, little to no dividends and are growing earnings and revenue rapidly
Mutual fund - Growth & Income
Invest in equities and income-producing assets.
Primary objective to provide capital appreciation and income
Mutual fund: value fund
Invest in undervalued funds that have a low P/E, high dividend yields and a positive future outlook
Mutual Fund: Balance fund
- Invest in more bonds than a typical equity fund.
- well balanced return in form of income and capital appreciation
Mutu fund: Bond Fund
Provides investors with a liquid bond investment that is cost effective and conservative
Mutual funds: index fund
Tracks performance of various market indices.
Passive investment that are tax efficient
Low turnover rates - minimize cap gains distributions
Mutual funds: sector funds
- invest in sectors of the U.S. economy.
- not well diversified and have a low r-squared
Mutual funds: asset allocation funds or lifecycle funds
- retirement based funds, well diversified.
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Mutual funds:global funds
Invest in both international and U.S. securities
Mutual funds: international funds
Invest in only international securities, no U.S. securities.