Pooled investments Flashcards
Pooled investment
Multiple investors contribute assets to be held and invested as a single group
Index securities actively or passively managed?
Passively
Pooled investments are pass through for tax purposes meaning
interest, dividends, gains and losses are passed to the individual investor
Pooled investment interest and dividends taxed how
ordinary income
Pooled investment capital gains taxed how
as capital gains
Open ended fund has what capital structure
variable
closed end funds have what capital structure
Fixed
How would shareholders of a closed end fund liquidate their shares?
Secondary market
What happens when you add or withdraw money from an open end fund
creates or eliminates shares
ETFS and open ended funds trade at what value?
NAV
Closed end funds trade at what value?
discount or premium to NAV depending on supply/demand of secondary market
ETFS open end or closed end
Closed end
Do ETFs sell at a discount or premium?
No bc institutions are able to exchange etf shares for individual securities and vice versa which keeps an etf on track with the index its tracking
ETFs are open to who and closed to who
Open to institutions but closed to individual investors
Advantage of ETF over open end mutual funds
- trade during day
-capital gains may be managed, not incurred by activity of other investors
-low cost due to operating cost