Funds

Nowadays, we are often come across a lot of articles related to hedge funds, we see them in the news, we read about them in the financial press, we hear about their ability to generate abnormal returns whether the market is in stable and healthy condition or it struggling due to some extreme events in the world. But what is really interesting and in the same time really strange, when you are trying to dig deeper in an attempt to get a flavour of what this is all about, we are facing the fact that

PART 1: ORGANISATION STUDY CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION, PROFILING OF INDUSTRY, COMPANY AND PRODUCT 1.1 INTRODUCTION: Mutual fund Industry was introduced in India 1963 with the formation of Unit Trust of India. During the last few years many extraordinary and rapid changes have been taking place in the Mutual fund industry. Indian economy is highly developing. The development is taken place due to the growth in the financial system. Institutions often trade of shares and institutional order’s can have

Historically, people invest their money in mutual funds as a means to generate extra income. This can be separated into either stocks or bonds, with each having their specialty in a portfolio. The following report provides an analysis of two funds, the Fidelity® Nasdaq® Composite Index Fund (FNCMX) and the Fidelity® Floating Rate High Income Fund (FFRHX). The analysis of the yearly returns of each fund from 2005-2014 will include the risk and return for investing in each with key statistics such

Direct Mutual Funds A mutual fund is a professionally managed fund that accumulates money from numerous financial specialists to buy securities. There is no legitimate meaning of the word "mutual fund”. It is a collective investment product that are controlled and sold to the general public on a daily basis. Investment in Mutual fund is lot easier than selling and buying of individual stocks. It also gives flexibility to users to sell their fund any time. You can invest in a mutual fund scheme under

Introduction As of 2014, more than 11,000 hedge funds are managing more than $2.6 Trillion in assets (De Pol, 2015). The statement itself speaks how important these hedge funds are in the global financial market. They provide investors with opportunities to achieve gains and manage risks. Hedge funds provide liquidity and make financial markets more efficient. These funds can be operated with extreme flexibility and play an important role in financial innovation and reallocation of financial risk

Every investment company appoints a fund manager who invests the money in different investment opportunities. These could run from shares to debentures to currency market instruments, contingent on the plan's expressed targets. The income earned through these investments and the capital appreciation acknowledged by the plan is shared by its unit holders in extent to the quantity of units claimed by them. Therefore a Mutual Fund is the most appropriate investment for the investor as

Sections 1: Research question Mutual fund has been existing for a long time, but there are still a lot of details about it are not very clear. Generally, this paper is discussing not only the overall performance of mutual funds, but also the functions of each subpart and how are they related to each other. Specifically, there are several questions been answered: how is mutual funds’ overall performance? What is the factor that affects its behaviour the most? How does each composition affect the

FUND OVERVIEW Fidelity Contrafund, which has more than $111 billion in the asset of November 2015 and makes it as the second-largest actively managed fund in the United Stated, is the largest mutual fund of the Fidelity Investment. The ticker of Fidelity Contrafund is FCNTX and it opened for investment on 17th May 1967. The standard benchmark index is S&P 500. The minimum investment of FCNTX is $2,5oo and minimum subsequent investments of $5oo. The average quarterly total return of FCNTX (equity

George Soros, a significant hedge fund manager, made a considerable return of one billion dollars in a single day by taking advantage of the English Pound and selling it a favorable time. This is considered by many financial analysts to be one of the most exceptional investments of all time. Instances such as the latter are not rare in the profession of hedge fund managing. These individuals look over hedge fund portfolios, which often use high risk methods in order to achieve an exceptional return

AAbstract Fund-flows suggest that recent years have seen a significant shift of capital towards passive investment strategies. There is evidence of investors’ preference for a relatively low fees passive strategies, usually in the form of index funds or exchange-traded funds (ETF). Undoubtedly, this is shaking the active management dominated mutual fund industry to its core. Is this the beginning of the end for actively managed mutual fund industry? Are we ready to sound the death knell for active