Active Share determines the extent of active management being employed
by mutual fund managers: the higher the Active Share, the more likely a fund is to outperform the benchmark index.
If an earthquake destroys the factory of one of the companies
held by a mutual fund, your financial hit will likely be minimal.
It is
managed by the mutual fund professionals with a pool of investments made by various clients that have a common financial goal.
Entry load is a small fee that is collected
by mutual fund house from the investor when the investor joins a mutual fund scheme.
Can you explain the implications of «securities lending» from the securities of mutual
funds by the mutual fund company?
These are distributed
by mutual funds at the end of the year and represent your taxable gain, if any, on the trading the fund has done.
Notably, the market and value factor premiums
earned by mutual funds since 1990 are about half the indicated theoretical return, and shockingly, the momentum factor premium essentially disappears.
But in the end, successful investing is all about minimizing mistakes — both your own and those
made by your mutual fund managers.
After year of being charged excessive fees hidden
by mutual funds stock brokers and banks, I had become very weary of fees.
Perhaps what's most interesting has been the
moves by mutual funds and hedge funds to get into the private capital markets.
Historical Yield - A historical yield is the set amount of
yield by any mutual fund that it actually produced during a given period of time.
The traditional measurement of the extent of active management employed
by a mutual fund relies on methods comparing a fund's historical returns to those of its benchmark index.
But the question of fees is one that is consistently under
appreciated by mutual fund investors, if for no other reason that they do not see the fees.
Short - term capital gains are treated as ordinary income, so you will pay your (probably higher) tax rate on any cash that you are
given by your mutual fund.
Around 36 % to 37 % are owned by hedge funds, and the remainder are
held by mutual funds and individual investors.