Until the 1970s, the investment landscape was largely dominated by wealthy individuals and families; this has since changed markedly, with professional investors now accounting for the largest share of investment activity, though it should be noted that these professionals manage
significant mutual fund asset pools that are driven by retail investors.
Not exact matches
We expect the management of the companies in which we invest to have
significant personal
assets invested in their company stock, and believe this same standard should apply to managers of
mutual funds.
GIFTS OF STOCK — Many donors realize a
significant tax advantage when giving a gift of long - term appreciated
assets, such as publicly traded stocks, securities, or
mutual funds.
At the moment, just 50 of 2050 active U.S. equity
mutual funds are holding
significant cash (that is, 20 % or more of total
assets).
Tax - conscious
mutual fund investors should determine a
mutual fund's unrealized accumulated capital gains, which are expressed as a percentage of its net
assets, before investing in a
fund with a
significant unrealized capital gain component.
There have been
significant flows into exchange - traded products and
mutual funds across
asset classes this year, as perceived economic and political risks have declined and many investors have put cash to work in response.
ETFs are very similar to
mutual funds but the two
asset classes can be differentiated by several
significant characteristics.
Then, when a
significant amount of «sand» dollars collect in the
mutual fund of one
asset class, that
fund is sold and a lower expenses ratio ETF «Rock» is purchased in its place.
Their role in retirement savings was even more
significant, since
mutual funds accounted for roughly half of the
assets in individual retirement accounts, 401 (k) s and other similar retirement plans.
The problem with that is that you can only find index
funds for a little more than half of the
asset classes in the Real World (and using ETFs offer little - to - no help here, because they behave more like
mutual funds than index
funds, plus they have much too little history for the results to be statistically
significant).