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fund family
A fund family or family of funds is a set of funds that may have different investment objectives or invest in different asset classes, but are offered by the same fund provider. The advantage of having access to a fund family is that the fund management company will usually allow investors to move their assets from one fund to another at little or no cost.
fund family in the news
In May 2012 it was reported that asset managers' margins were increasingly under pressure. Morgan Stanley Smith...
Business glossary
- business ecosystemIncreasingly, businesses operate in a broader network of related businesses offering particular products or services. This is known as a...
- business model
- classical economics
- corporate governance
- corporate responsibility
- elasticity of demand
- flexible working
- generation Y
- green technology
- hidden needs
- market capitalisation
- moral hazard
- price/earnings ratio
- private equity
- return on equity
- social media
- sustainable enterprise
- trade secret
- value-based pricing
- value investing
- venture capital
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Buzz Words
- biomimicryBiomimicry is broadly used to describe any process in which a shape or process in nature is used to inspire an innovation. Biomimicry has...
- London whale
- phablet
- austerity
- countercyclical buffering
- crowdsourcing
- dark pools
- Dodd-Frank Act
- ESG
- Glass-Steagall Act
- grey dollar
- hawk
- inflation targeting
- Keynesian economics
- microfinance
- sukuk (Islamic bonds)
- spread betting
- sustainable development
- too big to fail
- toxic assets
- Volcker rule
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In the News
- big dataBig data is the term used to describe the huge volumes of data generated by traditional business activities and from new sources such as...
- cyber crime
- Financial Policy Committee FPC
- financial regulation
- fiscal cliff
- funding for lending
- gamification
- GSifi
- IMF
- insider trading
- IPO
- Libor
- monetary transmission
- peak oil
- QE3
- risk on, risk off
- Serious Fraud Office
- sovereign bonds
- strategic alliance
- proprietary trading
- zombie household
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