Questions
December 4th, 2022
Question 1
What are Unit Investment Trusts? What is their role? How they function? Give examples.
Question 2
What are “Managed Investment Companies”? How many types? How they function? Give
examples.
Question 3
What is the role of Real Estate Investment Trusts? How they are important? How they function?
Question 4
Hedge funds? What is the role of hedge funds? How they function? How important they are in
an economy? How many types? Give examples and explain.
Question 5
Index funds? What is the role of index funds? Explain their functioning mechanisms. Give
examples and explain.
Question 6
The costs of investing in mutual funds: Explain the fee structure, operating expenses, front-end
load and back-end load, and 12b-1 charges.
Question 7
What are Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)? Explain the rationale underlying the functioning of
ETFs.
Question 8
What are private equities? Where they invest? What are their characteristics and how they
function?
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