What's the fund market size in Australia, say total asset under management and how many fund company as well?
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You really need to visit http://asx.com.au/ and do some research there.\n\nCheers\nAlister\nhttp://www.marketscience.com.au
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Performance Summary as on 30th June '06 \nScheme Performance\n(1 year) Annualised\nReturns \n(Since\nInception) Inception\nDate  \n(The first percentage is this years return.  The second % is the annual return since it started.  The date that follows is the inception date.)\nPreserver *                   6.03%     5.51%      17/May/04 \nProtector #                   3.41%      8.14%      16/Nov/01 \nBalancer ##                15.90%    17.50%      16/Nov/01 \nMaximiser ^                  42.08%   32.81%      16/Nov/01 \nPension Preserver *       5.99%     5.28%    17/May/04 \nPension Protector #       3.41%      6.39%     31/May/02 \nPension Balancer ##     16.63%   18.17%    31/May/02 \nPension Maximiser ^      42.07%   37.51%    31/May/02 \nInvestShield Cash #        4.40%     4.40%     04/Jan/05 \nInvestShield Life **         14.42%   11.41%    04/Jan/05 \nInvestShield Pension ** 13.19%    10.96%    04/Jan/05 \n \nThese funds have not been in effect long enough to give an accurate opinion.  I like to look at 3 year, 5 year & 10 year results.  You may want to look into other top ranked companies.  Get quotes from other top ranked companies here:\n\nhttp://www.insureme.com/landing.aspx?Refby=614505&Type=life \n\nTake care,\nRon @ InsureMe
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In simplest terms, mutual funds are just groups of investments. They can be stocks, or bonds, or a combination of the two. They can even be investments in real estate (REITs).\n\nIn an active mutual fund, a fund manager decides what to purchase for the fund. In a stock fund, the manager picks the stocks to buy in hopes that the stocks will go up. In bond fund, he picks bonds. In some funds, the manager has the option of choosing between both stock and bonds. He may even decide buy nothing if he can't find anything worth buying, keeping cash on hand until he finds something worthwhile to buy.\n\nIn an index fund, a fund manager's main job is just to buy the stocks or bonds in an index. For example, in an S&P 500 stock fund, the manager's job is to buy all the stocks in S&P 500 and hold them.
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Not enough information - which country are you in?  When were you born?  Are you still working?  How much superannuation do you have?\n\nThese questions affect supperannuation in Australia.
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manager tenures are important for the more successful ones like Bill Nygren at Oakmark get favorable reviwes in places liek morningstar (and deservingly so) performance look as far back as you can 5-10 year range and go from there. Cap size DOES reduce risk for the large cap sector is well established companies and can withstand periodicall losses in teh market. Small caps are generally younger companies and they will be hurt if the market suddenly tanks. Large cap doesn't have a better track record per say buy large cap would be something like Boeing and a small cap would be NTE big differences between the two. The more risk the more potetional for reward could happen. Barons does a review on mutual fund managers and they are very worthy a look (with Bill I even invested in his funds before moving to ETF's)
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Actively managed funds lose their shine as the market matures and hence outperforming broader market consistently for a long period is nearly impossible.\n\nAs far as India is concerned only around 100-300 stocks are well researched and actively traded in the market and hence provide liquidity.  Fund houses which go beyond these stocks can always pick-up winners and hence beat the market index.  Just look at the how a large cap fund FT India Bluechip fund can better the Sensex index by huge margin.  An yet to mature market like India will always offer better opportunities for the fund manager for the next 10-15 years.\n\nETFs and Index funds have low expense ratios and that is plus point.  But in the diversified funds vs ETF/Index funds they are not mutually exclusive and hence they can compliment any investor portfolio.\n\nGood luck.
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The net asset value (NAV) of a mutual fund is simply its assets minus its liabilities. In other words, NAV equals the fund's worth. If a fund has assets of $50 million and liabilities of $10 million, it would have a NAV of $40 million. \n\nThis number is important to investors, because it is from NAV that the price per unit of a fund is calculated. By dividing the NAV of a fund by the number of outstanding units, you are left with the price per unit. In our example, if the fund had 4,000,000 shares outstanding, the price-per-share value would be $40 million divided by 4,000,000, which equals $10. \n\nThe NAVs of funds are constantly changing and, as such, so are their price per shares. Funds usually wait until the end of each trading day to recalculate their NAV and individual share prices. \n\nWe should note that simply analyzing the NAV is not a good measure of the fund's growth. Funds are constantly paying out distributions of both capital gains and dividends, which reduce the NAV of the fund and do not reflect any appreciation in the price per unit. Say a fund's price per unit increased from $10 to $15, but the fund also distributed $5 per share to all unit holders. The fund hasn't simply appreciated by 50% ($10*1.5 = $15), as the per-unit cost would suggest; it has actually appreciated 100% ($10*2 = $20). So do not mistake a fund's per-share price based on NAV for the actual earnings of the fund.
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Here is what I suggest. Go to Yahoo mutual fund screen. And imput the parameters of the type of fund you wish to consider and see what pops up. \n\nHere is the link.\n\nThe second link is one of the screens I ran. It shows funds that are no load, with low initial investment that are ranked at least 4 star by Morningstar and are in the top 30% for one year performance.
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You can find the data here:\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&from=AUD&from=SLL&to=SGD&submit=Convert
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Forbes magazine has annual lists of top producing funds, and their managers. Money magazine also does this. You can also go to Morningstar's web site (same name) and they also rank performance. One thing that I have heard and read over and over again is that you want to find a fund that has good history not only with the fund managers, but also their assistants.
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They were bought out or merged.  I don't remember who by.  I should, though, I own a mutual fund through them.
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Mutual funds are a group of investors, that usually don't have enough money at one time, pooling there money together to maximize their buying power and  with more money they buy many different stocks in many different companies so that they limit their risk of loss by not investing in one company( or putting your eggs in one basket) Do to the fact that they pool their money the mutual fund can then afford a professional fund manager to pick which stocks, bonds, or money markets to invest in.  Also there are many types of funds, some balanced meaning they invest in all three, stocks, bonds, and money markets, simultaneously and some invest all in stocks, or bonds, or money markets individually. Anyway that is another big discussion. I hope that this helps you out.\n\nRemember mutual funds will never have the big returns of individual stocks but there wont be the losses either.\n\nAverage gains of 8% to 12% over the life of the fund should not be too hard to get.
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FI, CO, SD, PP, MM, Basis, BW, APO, SEM, CRM are in demand in the US. Basically depends on where you are and how the local market is doing.
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As of Today,,according to Yahoo Finance...\nThe Top 10 mutuals return:\n\n3Month> 23.7% to 36.6%\n1 Year>  60.6% to 75.5%\n3 Year>  45.9% to 50.6%\n5 Year>  37.9% to 47.8%\n\n........................................\nYahoo's Screener returns these results\n\n"All>Down more than 50%>Year to Date"\n1 Fund)  --85.7%\n\n"All>Down more than  10%>1 Year"\n25 Funds--- Range  -10.3% to -88.9%\n\nHowever,,that 88.9 Loss is a sorta exception.\nThe Next Loser on that list is -34%\n#11=  -17%\n#12=  -13%\n\nThere are Only 5 showing ,,Down more than 25%\n\nAnd only 179 showing "Down more than 0% 1yr"\nWhile there's 16,643  "UP more than 0% 1yr"\nWith 13,433 "UP more than 5% 1yr"\n..........9,762 "Up More than 10% 1yr"\n\n\nSo,,of Over 16,500 Funds,,,,\n25 are Down More than 10%\nvs\n9,762 UP more than 10%\n6,061 Up more than 15%\n\nFrom that simple comparrison it seems a safe assumption that a "Dart Thrown" amongst ALL Mutual Funds could be expected to return 10% or better\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\n"Worst Case"....???\nOnly 25 of more than 16,000 are Down more than 10% in current 1 yr period AND 3yr period\n\n51 are Down more than 10%,,Y-T-D\n561 of 16,600+ are Down More than 0% YTD\n\nThat's 30:1 Odds of hitting a Gainer larger than +0%,,,\non nothing but a Blind Grab.\nA LITTLE research can be expected to better those Odds exponentially,,in my opinion.\n\nOk,,we all are familiar with the saying,\n"Past Performance is No Gaurantee of Future Results".\nEZ enough to understand that.\n\nYet on the Other hand,,according to both Market Logic and Common Logic it's a valid Assumption that \n"IF the Fundamentals Underlying a Fund's Performance remain basically IN TACT & In Effect,,,,,\nThe Fund's Performance Model will be approximately replicated."\n\nPut Another way,,,If most all things remain equal about the Fund,\nIt's Reasonable to expect the Fund  to perform in a Similar manner.\n\nIt Might have done +20% last year,,,if things stay Similar,,\nOne could reasonably expect a +10 to 20 % range as a basic assumption.\nA Drop from +20% to +10% is a HUGE Correction Factor to include in any assumption of "all things remain equal"--the basic fundamentals being maintained.\n\nLets apply that to a couple of examples:\nGold and Oil both have about TRIPLED in last 3~4 Years.\nObviously,, Funds weighted in Those Now Reflect  That RISE.\nActually,,they reflect Commodity Pricing + Actual Enterprise Value +++INVESTOR SENTIMENT>>Momentum.\n\nBut can Anyone in their right mind think that Gold or Oil will TRIPLE AGAIN in next 3 yrs or so?\n200$ to 600$~700 Gold,,,,OK,,,but $650 Gold to $1,950?\n$20 Oil to $60's,,Sure,,but From HERE Forward..$60's to $180's??\nWithin next 3~4 years??\nNaaa,,No Way.\n\nSo we CANNOT Logically assume Gold or Oil will "repeat" the Performance of it's current 3yr and 5Yr record.\nIt can CERTAINLY Do Very Well,,,but it's Recent Performance is an Anomaly,,,a Unique Situation.\nAND,,it was (arguably/Probably) coming from a UNDER-valued position----it had a Latent/Dormant UNrealized Value which accounts for a substantial %% of it's Upward Move.\n\n\nNow lets look at DEFENSE SECTOR for a example contrary to Above.\nDefense itself had a Windfall UP-Move.\nWe CANNOT (Or at least HOPE NOT) expect the\n MOTIVES/MKT- Forces to REPEAT.\n\nBut even so,,,the Fundamentals of The COMMERCE of Warfare/Defense  remain Intact,,,and are expected to do so thru next several years.\nThe DEMAND for relative Products/Services is not only Still Growing,,it's EVOLVING.\n"The Big Picture" of DEFENSE is one of GROWTH.\nWhich means Growing Sales/Revenues/Profits,,,it means Innovation,,,it means Mergers & Consolidations..\nBlah,Blah....\n\nSo if we Compare something like Gold &
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under 1% is low, and probably doesn't include hidden fees.  in theory, the lower the expenses, the less actively managed the fund is (ie index funds)       try putnam, 100% of funds have expense ratio below Lipper average  (all actively managed).  don't pick a fund solely by its expenses...you get what you pay for!
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You have to narrow it down some. Your question is too broad, general, and all-encompassing.\n\nYou interested in Mutual Funds, Debt Instruments, real estate, gold coins, antique autos, what? I could sell you a condominium in Florida. Please contact me.
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Yahoo finance has volume data on the exchange traded bond funds.  For example ARK shows an average volume of 115,000 and 84,400 on Friday, Nov 18. \n\nYou can find a listing of all exchange traded bond funds at this link.\n\nhttp://www.etfconnect.com/select/FindAFund.aspx