Index Funds and ETFs

For practical reasons we can say there are four types of investment companies, although the federal securities laws categorize investment companies only into the first three types: # Mutual funds (legally known as open-end companies); # Closed-end funds (legally known as closed-end companies); # UITs (legally known as unit investment trusts); # Exchange Traded Funds (legally known as open-end company or UIT).* *According to SEC website, Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are not considered to be, and are not permitted to call themselves, mutual funds, even though they are legally classified as open-end companies or UITs. This is because they differ from traditional open-end companies (mutual funds) and UITs in that ETF shares trade on a secondary market and the redeemability of ETF shares is very limited - ETFs do not sell individual shares directly to investors and their shares are only redeemable in very large blocks (blocks of 50,000 shares for example). Some types of companies that might initially appear to be investment companies may actually be excluded under the federal securities laws. For example, private investment funds with no more than 100 investors and private investment funds whose investors each have a substantial amount of investment assets (e.g. Hedge Funds) are not considered to be investment companies. This may be because of the private nature of their offerings or the financial means and sophistication of their investors.

According to SEC website: Exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, are investment companies that are legally classified as open-end companies or Unit Investment Trusts (UITs). However, because of the limited redeemability of ETF shares, ETFs are not considered to be-and may not call themselves-mutual funds, and differ from traditional open-end companies and UITs in the following respects: ETFs do not sell individual shares directly to investors and only issue their shares in large blocks (blocks of 50,000 shares, for example) that are known as "Creation Units." Investors generally do not purchase Creation Units with cash. Instead, they buy Creation Units with a basket of securities that generally mirrors the ETF's portfolio. Those who purchase Creation Units are frequently institutions. After purchasing a Creation Unit, an investor often splits it up and sells the individual shares on a secondary market. This permits other investors to purchase individual shares (instead of Creation Units). Investors who want to sell their ETF shares have two options: (1) they can sell individual shares to other investors on the secondary market, or (2) they can sell the Creation Units back to the ETF. In addition, ETFs generally redeem Creation Units by giving investors the securities that comprise the portfolio instead of cash. So, for example, an ETF invested in the stocks contained in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) would give a redeeming shareholder the actual securities that constitute the DJIA instead of cash.

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Electronic Funds Transfers

Try again- ETF, not EFT

Exchange Traded Fund

The index in a stock exchange refers to the indicator of the overall performance of the exchange. Usually a number of large conglomerates that are listed in the exchange are chosen for the calculation of the Index.

For Ex: The Sensex (Bombay Stock Exchange) comprise of 30 of the top companies in India. Each of these 30 companies has a weightage in the index and the price movement of these companies in either direction can influence the index.

NYSE membership prices range, depending on various factors, its all time high was valued at $2.70 Million in 1999, however has dropped since, there are 1,366 seats in the NYSE.

ishares FTSE 100 ETF (Symbol: ISF) The iShares FTSE 100 offers exposure to the 100 largest UK companies. This fund provides a diversified base of core UK equities, which a larger portfolio can then be built around.

Mostly represent the people in general, as outsiders who invests in stock unlike the wall street who trade stocks. If you invest you represent the fraternity of main street.

One billion U.S. dollars is equal to 50,849,000,000 rupees.

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what is the ticker symbol for silver.

Answer: SLV

SLV is not physical silver it is an ETF.

iShares Silver Trust (the Trust) owns silver transferred to the Trust in exchange for shares issued by the Trust (Shares). Each Share represents a fractional undivided beneficial interest in the net assets of the Trust. The assets of the Trust consist primarily of silver held by the Trust's custodian on behalf of the Trust. The sponsor of the Trust is iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC (the Sponsor). The trustee of the Trust is The Bank of New York Mellon (the Trustee) and the custodian of the Trust is JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., London branch (the Custodian).

The activities of the Trust are limited to issuing Baskets of Shares in exchange for the silver deposited with the Custodian as consideration, selling silver as necessary to cover the Sponsor's fee, Trust expenses not assumed by the Sponsor and other liabilities and delivering silver in exchange for Baskets of Shares surrendered for redemption. Each deposit of silver for the creation of Baskets of Shares and each surrender of Baskets of Shares for the purpose of withdrawing Trust property (including if the trust agreement terminates) must be accompanied by a payment to the Trustee of a fee.

Sometimes the value of the ETF can be slightly different.

A "blind trust" is payable whenever the terms of the trust say it is payable. A "blind trust" has no features that are different than any other trust except for the fact that the beneficiaries are not allowed to see where the trust assets are invested or influence how they should be invested.

Yes, for example the stock marketclosed at 1pm on July 3rd.

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The truth is you need to invest in the fund that will make you the most money. Look at rankings monthly Both ETFs and Mutual Funds allow for broad diversification or narrow sector concentration (e.g., industry, country, foreign currency, debt instead of equity) by a purchase of one single holding. They can be described as "baskets of stocks" that have some kind of common "theme." There are however several main differences: ETFs trade on exchanges like stocks and can be bought and sold at any time during the exchange trading sessions, although some of them may be extremely thinly traded. Mutual Funds, on the other hand, have to be usually redeemed or purchased only at the Net Asset Value, based on closing prices for the day. Thus, if there is a negative event, you cannot use an automated sell stop and have to ride the prices all the way to the day's close. Nevertheless, the problems with liquidity under normal economic conditions are very rare with Mutual Funds. Unlike many Mutual Funds, ETFs do not have minimums to invest, minimum holding periods or early withdrawal fees. Mutual Funds are likely to have different classes of shares A/B/or C, which may have to be held for a certain minimum time to avoid fees when selling (sometimes 2 to 3 years, or more). Both ETFs and Mutual Funds deduct managerial and operational expenses from your (growing or shrinking) investment, but when compared especially to Load Mutual Funds, ETFs on average have lower such deductions. ETF trades, on the other hand, will be garnished with brokerage commission fees. However, nowadays, at discount online brokers they are almost negligible. Highly liquid ETFs, those with large daily volumes, are complemented with options that trade on Options Exchanges. Such options may be useful in hedging larger or riskier positions. Mutual Funds are not optionable. Mutual Funds usually cannot be bought on margin or sold short by an investor. This can be done easily with ETFs. Also, all ETFs are available through almost any broker. That is not always true about Mutual Funds that have specific agreements with different brokerage houses. Unlike Mutual Funds, ETFs may be highly leveraged, buy on margin or trade options, employ short selling, or use complicated derivatives to achieve, for example, inverse performance of given indices (e.g., SKF). This may be useful for anybody wanting to employ leverage in IRA or 401K accounts. Sources: http://www.amfi.com/ratings/mutual-fund-rankings

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