what is fund of fund?
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In most countries when you sell an investment, you have to pay taxes on the profits immediately, even if you sold the investment to reinvest in something else.\n\nTo avoid this inconvenience banks and other investment firms invented the "fund of funds". The manager of this type of fund determines his own strategy of arbitrage and reinvestment within a number of mutual funds. For the buyer of the fund of funds the advantage is that his reinvested money did not leave the fund of funds, and he doesn't have to pay taxes.\n\nThe advantage for the bank is that the fund family used by the manager is often that of the bank, which means that the bank earns twice the manager fee, once on each fund.  \n\nThe details depend on the country and its tax rules.\n\nBeing a fund of funds is one of the investment strategies used by hedge funds as it permits arbitrage between stocks, bonds, commodities according to the model the manager uses\nbut without him being encumbered by the burden of having to choose individual investments.
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Interest refers solely to the payments received for use of money. That is, the amount of the investment * the interest rate.\n\nOperation of capital is found by subtracting all costs associated with the investment (transaction fees, associated accounting costs, etc) from the interest payments.  Operation of capital is a much more real-world measure of how the investments are paying off.
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mutual funds are pools of money, invested in varying amounts by a large number of people. the money is invested according to a specific objective. a professional fund manager runs the fund and sees to it that the investments are in accordance witht he stated objective of the fund. these types of investments have enabled small investors to purchase diversified portfolios with the use of professional managers.
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Fund derivatives are puts and calls on mutual funds, hedge funds, hedge fund indexes, and other specially designed funds. For more info, check out:\nhttp://www.epn-magazine.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/1276/Could_2005_be_the_year_of_the_fund_derivative_.html
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Contact your state Deparment of Insurance.  They should have more information on the fund if there is one.
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The simple case for index funds is part theory, part practice, and part arithmetic. Theory says that since (a) gross returns earned by investors as a group must equal the gross returns earned by the total stock market, (b) net returns - after advisory fees and other investment expenses - earned by investors as a group must fall short of the returns of the market by the amount of those costs.\n\nPractice confirms the theory. Returns earned by the average equity mutual fund in the past have typically fallen short of the returns on appropriate stock market indexes by an amount approximately equal to the operating expenses and transaction costs incurred by the funds. Over the past 25 years, the average fund has earned annual returns averaging 11.6% compared to a return of 13.1% for the Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index, a shortfall of 1.5 percentage points per year. In fact, only 32% of actively managed equity funds have outpaced this unmanaged index, and no one has ever suggested a methodology by which those few winners could have been selected in advance.\n\nAnd simple arithmetic makes it clear that this difference is critically important. Over 25 years, a $10,000 investment in the Index would have risen in value to $217,100, compared to $155,500 in the average fund. This shortfall - $61,600 - is clearly enormous. For over time, the miracle of compounding changes a difference in degree in annual return to a difference in kind in capital accumulation. Costs matter. That sums up the simple case for index funds.
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If you're looking to make the fund available to students everywhere (such as the types of scholarships you might see on FastWeb), take a look at FinAid's guide to scholarship design and management: http://www.finaid.org/educators/awarddesign.phtml\n\nIf you have a particular school in mind, just call their Institutional Advancement (or "Development" or "Alumni") office(s) and tell them you want to create an endowed fund for their students.  They will be more than happy to help you set something up.  In these cases, you can usually (if not always) pick the criteria.
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United Nations Children's Fund (formerly United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund).
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The federal government agency that tries to monitor and prevent terrorist financing is part of the State Department, the Office of Foreign Assets Control\n\nHere is a description of their Mission:\nThe Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and \nnational security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of \nweapons of mass destruction. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on \ntransactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction. (more)\n\nThey may have the type of manual your are interested in.\n\nFor more information, contact:\nhttp://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/
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There is a huge difference.\n\nA mutual fund is an investment portfolio where lots of people pool their money in order to buy a well diversified portfolio.  Some people may put in a little while others may put in a lot.  Each owns a piece tht is proportional to the amount they put in.\n\nA trust fund is money governed by a legal contract where a really rich person puts aside part of his money for someone -- usually an underage child.  The trustee (usually a law firm) then manages the money until the person comes of age.  They often make decisions about what can be taken out of the fund before the person gets control.
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A mutual fund is a corporation operating under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as an open end investment company.  It also complies with certain restrictions under the Internal Revenue Code.\n\nThe owners of the corporation are prorata owners of a pool of investments.  The Investment Company Act, and to some extent the Internal Revenue Code, restrict what assets can be included.  However, these restrictions are mostly minimal and in some instances optional if disclosed properly.\n\nMutual funds are unique in that their shares are both continually offered and continually redeemed.  What makes this different from an ordinary company is that the company issues as many shares as the public wants and will redeem them on demand (there are restrictions on both of these statements but they don't usually apply).  If you had wanted to buy shares in IBM, you would have to buy them from an existing shareholder.  If you wanted to buy shares in a mutual fund, the company will produce as many as you are willing to buy and will sell fractional shares as well.  Likewise, if you wanted to sell shares in IBM, you would take them to the market to find a buyer.  The mutual fund itself will buy back all shares at the next valuation price (usually that means an order today will not occur until tomorrow).\n\nThe funds self-restrict their investments to allow shareholders to anticipate what is likely to occur.
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mutual funds ..as the name suggests is pool of funds contributed by large no. of individuals which is invested by financial experts in different fields to give a good retuen on the investment to the contributers. A company, trust, financial instituion as the case may be in a country invites funds from individuals and hires experts to invets the same into equity, debt, commodities and even real estate to generate profitable returns on them and investors thus gain from their investment as the profits made on investments are distributed among different contibuters to the fund in the ratio of their contribution. thus mutual funds help small investors to gain advantages of diversified portfolio and gain from specialised knowledge of experts who invest the money. to know more email me at siderminator@yahoo.co.in
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Try some of these links:\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:Mutual+fund\nhttp://www.mfea.com/\nhttp://www.guardfamily.org/B06/B0601/A0001_D/glossary/bhs04_glossary.html
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Slush fund is, colloquially, a term which has come to mean an auxiliary monetary account or a reserve fund. However, the term has special meaning within a context of corrupt (including but not limited to) political dealings by governments, large corporations or other bodies and individuals. Slush funds can have particular elements of illegality, illegitimacy, or secrecy in regard to the use of this money; and the means by which the funds were acquired.
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I like to be a part of my investment in Fedility and Reliance Mutual funds.\n\n\nThis has given me much financial benifits
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There are two fund families that promote short selling strategies.\n  They are Rydex Funds, and Pro-Funds\n  Obviously the government permits it AS LONG AS THE CUSTOMER HAS BEEN INFORMED OF IT.  IT IS LISTED IN THE FUND PROSPECTUS.\n  Additionally, typical hedge funds participate in these actions.