Flashcards: Funds

A collateralized debt obligation (CDO) is a type of structured asset-backed security (ABS).

Socially responsible investing (SRI), or Social investment is also known as sustainable, socially conscious, "green" or ethical investing, is any investment strategy which seeks to consider both financial return and social good to bring about a social change.

A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a state-owned investment fund investing in real and financial assets such as stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals, or in alternative investments such as private equity fund or hedge funds.

An investment fund is a way of investing money alongside other investors in order to benefit from the inherent advantages of working as part of a group.

A vulture fund is a hedge fund or private equity fund that invests in debt considered to be very weak or in default, known as distressed securities.

Vertex Venture Holdings is a worldwide group of venture capital funds dedicated investments in IT and health care.

Late trading is trading executed after the standard local national exchanges have closed.

Adams Diversified Equity Fund, formerly Adams Express Company, is a publicly traded diversified equity fund.

AdvisorShares Investments is a US-based investment management firm based in Bethesda, Maryland which offers actively managed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) through the AdvisorShares Trust.

Value Partners Group Limited (SEHK: 0806) is a Hong Kong-based asset management company.

The Glacier National Park Fund (established in 1999), is an organization whose main goal is to raise money to support the demands of the Glacier National Park, located in West Glacier, Montana.

The Great Lakes Protection Fund is a publicly capitalized, private corporation created in 1989 by the Governors of the states surrounding the Great Lakes.

Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation is a fund for the development of cultural relations between the UK and Sweden.

The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is a U.

A stock fund or equity fund is a fund that invests in stocks, also called equity securities.

An index fund (also index tracker) is a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) with specific rules of construction that are adhered to regardless of market conditions.

A money market fund (also called a money market mutual fund) is an open-ended mutual fund that invests in short-term debt securities such as US Treasury bills and commercial paper.

The Bell Fund (formerly the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund) is an independent private Canadian fund that finances interactive digital content associated with Canadian television programs.

The company has listed its ETFs in Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, NYSE Arca, Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana and London Stock Exchange.

Extended-hours trading is stock trading that happens either before or after the normal trading hours of a stock exchange, i.

SITRA (Finnish: Suomen itsenäisyyden juhlarahasto), the Finnish Innovation Fund, was founded in 1967 as a part of the Bank of Finland.

Inter Pipeline is a multinational petroleum (oil, natural gas and petrochemical products)transportation and infrastructure limited partnership that ranks among North America's leading natural gas and NGL's extraction businesses (from its liquids (NGL's) counterpart).