Collective investment scheme | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:48 1 History
00:02:15 2 Law
00:03:46 3 Generic information—structure
00:03:56 3.1 Constitution and terminology
00:05:00 3.2 Net asset value
00:05:23 3.3 Open-end fund
00:05:57 3.4 Closed-end fund
00:06:48 3.5 Gearing and leverage
00:07:38 3.6 Availability and access
00:08:26 3.7 Limited duration
00:08:42 3.8 Unit or share class
00:09:56 4 Generic information—advantages
00:10:06 4.1 Diversity and risk
00:11:15 4.2 Reduced dealing costs
00:11:43 5 Generic information—disadvantages
00:11:54 5.1 Costs
00:12:51 5.2 Lack of choice
00:13:08 5.3 Loss of owner’s rights
00:13:31 6 Style
00:13:40 6.1 Investment aims and benchmarking
00:15:08 6.2 Active or passive management
00:16:59 6.3 Alpha, Beta, R-squared and standard deviation
00:18:45 6.4 Types of risk
00:19:33 7 Charging structures and fees
00:19:43 7.1 Fee types
00:20:39 7.2 Pricing models
00:22:58 8 Internationally recognised collective investments
00:23:26 9 US-specific collective investments
00:24:04 10 UK-specific collective investments
00:24:59 11 Canadian collective investments
00:25:14 12 Ireland specific collective investments
00:25:47 13 European collective investments
00:26:02 13.1 France and Luxembourg
00:26:31 13.2 Netherlands and Belgium
00:26:52 13.3 Ukraine
00:27:25 13.4 Greece
00:29:26 13.5 Switzerland
00:30:02 14 Australian collective investments
00:30:48 15 Offshore collective investments
00:31:06 16 See also

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An investment fund is a way of investing money alongside other investors in order to benefit from the inherent advantages of working as part of a group. These advantages include an ability to:

hire professional investment managers, which may potentially be able to offer better returns and more adequate risk management;
benefit from economies of scale, i.e., lower transaction costs;
increase the asset diversification to reduce some unsystematic risk.It remains unclear whether professional active investment managers can reliably enhance risk adjusted returns by an amount that exceeds fees and expenses of investment management. Terminology varies with country but investment funds are often referred to as investment pools, collective investment vehicles, collective investment schemes, managed funds, or simply funds. The regulatory term is undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities, or short collective investment undertaking (cf. Law). An investment fund may be held by the public, such as a mutual fund, exchange-traded fund, special-purpose acquisition company or closed-end fund, or it may be sold only in a private placement, such as a hedge fund or private equity fund. The term also includes specialized vehicles such as collective and common trust funds, which are unique bank-managed funds structured primarily to commingle assets from qualifying pension plans or trusts.Investment funds are promoted with a wide range of investment aims either targeting specific geographic regions (e.g., emerging markets or Europe) or specified industry sectors (e.g., technology). Depending on the country there is normally a bias towards the domestic market due to familiarity, and the lack of currency risk. Funds are often selected on the basis of these specified investment aims, their past investment performance, and other factors such as fees.

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