Mutual Funds : Portfolio Structures, Analysis, Management, and Stewardship
The PDF file includes the forthcoming book's table of content. When the financial history of the United States is written, one chapter will necessarily be dedicated to mutual funds. This industry has been and continues to be one of the extraordinary growth stories in the history of American financial markets. Today, 96 million individual investors in 55 million households own mutual funds, representing 87 percent of total fund assets. In 1984, net fund assets totaled $370 million, and today they are $10.4 trillion. Several major forces explain most of this growth, but the first and essential force has been the demonstrated effectiveness of mutual funds as vehicles for providing individual investors with retirement incomes and financial wealth. Mutual funds provide individual investors (and all other investors) with investment performance and investment alternatives, objectives, and services traditionally reserved for institutional and large individual investors. Nonetheless, mutual funds also have numerous shortcomings in their management and regulation that could be removed through stewardship of fund management, increased investor knowledge, and more investor friendly fund regulation. This book brings together some of the finest minds in academia, investment management, and mutual fund management to discuss the nature and pros and cons of mutual funds. The focus explores mutual funds as investment vehicles, and the approaches that will further improve and lessen the often hidden pitfalls of fund investing. The result is an improved source of learning for university students, and an increased ability of informed investors to make fund decisions that will make the experience much more rewarding, and even simpler
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2017
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Authors: | Haslem, John A. |
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[2017]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (12 p) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 15, 2015 erstellt |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.2633232 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971376
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