Open-end mutual funds trade directly with investors, creating and destroying shares as needed to account for investments and withdrawals.
Guggenheim runs a handful of low volume ETFs and closed end mutual funds.
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Each of these had offered to buy the shares at steep discounts, in exchange for units in newly established closed-end mutual funds.
Unlike open-end mutual funds that are bought and sold at Net Asset Value (NAV), ETFs are traded throughout the day at whatever price clears the market.
It will begin brokering securities by years end and telemarketing mutual funds in 1998.
My policy on bond investing is to only use open-end no load Institutional class mutual funds to invest in bonds.
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Senator Collins, a vocal champion of cracking down on brokers, decided that it would be okay to exempt those brokers who sell only mutual funds, variable annuities and certain closed-end funds from the standard.
Meanwhile, Wall Street firms, always ready to fill a need with new products, introduced exchange-traded-funds, which trade like a stock during the day, making it even easier to trade an entire portfolio than with regular end-of-day priced mutual funds.
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Another element at play in the efforts to restart U.S. equity trading is the fact that Wednesday marks the end of October, when many mutual funds close their fiscal year and asset managers of many stripes update investors on their holdings at month-end.
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UITs are priced at the end of each business day similar to mutual funds.
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Such income producing strategies may include bonds, dividend paying equities, mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds ( ETFs) and unit investment trusts (UITs), to name a few.
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Risks are now borne by a bigger pool, with pension funds, insurance companies, mutual and hedge funds and others in the end, mainly the household sector taking much of the burden from banks.
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Assuming a three-year holding period (the average length of investment in mutual funds), this front-end load is costing investors 2.1% per year.
So, like mutual funds, active ETFs could wait until the end of a quarter to disclose what they own.
This is a contrast to mutual funds, where you have to wait for the end of the day to see the change in value.
Mutual funds can make capital gains distributions, often toward year end in October or November.
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In June, for example, foreign equities accounted for 24% of German mutual funds' portfolios, up from 12% at the end of 1997 and 19% at the end of 1998, according to Salomon Smith Barney.
Such has been the scale of inflows that by the end of this year (if it continues) the total assets of mutual funds are likely to overtake those of banks, which have been the dominant financial intermediary for the past two centuries.
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