| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Securities Institute global capital markets series |
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Global capital markets series.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Principles of Fund Management -- Chapter 1. The concept of collective investment schemes -- 1.1 What is a FUND? -- 1.2 Capital structures -- 1.3 Legal structures -- 1.4 The size of the funds universe -- 1.5 Origins: the first collective investment vehicles and the emergence of a funds industry -- 1.6 Purposes, advantages and disadvantages of collective investment schemes -- 1.7 The market for funds -- institutional, retail, specialist -- 1.8 The role of funds as a node between the investing public and the capital markets -- 1.9 Listed funds -- 1.10 Fund categorizations -- 1.11 Matching investors' objectives -- Chapter 2. Different fund structures -- 2.1 The different capital structures: open- vs. closed-ended schemes -- 2.2 Legal structures: corporate, trust-based, partnership and contractual vehicles -- 2.3 'Onshore' vs. 'offshore' vs. 'international' -- 2.4 'Umbrella fund' structures -- 2.5 Protected Cell Companies -- 2.6 Feeder funds -- 2.7 Funds-of-funds -- 2.8 Exchange traded funds -- Chapter 3. The regulatory environment -- 3.1 Recap: the regulatory definition of a fund -- 3.2 Regulation of schemes, and applicable exemptions -- 3.3 Regime for functionaries, and applicable exemptions -- 3.4 Compensation schemes -- 3.5 Advantages and disadvantages of regulated status -- 3.6 Applying for a license, and applicable exemptions -- 3.7 'Fit and proper' status -- sponsors, service providers -- 3.8 Ongoing supervision -- 3.9 Investor due diligence requirements -- 3.10 Recognition regimes for foreign schemes -- 3.11 The rationale for investment restrictions -- 3.12 Typical restrictions on securities funds -- 3.13 Typical restrictions on money market funds -- 3.14 Restrictions on feeder funds -- 3.15 Restrictions on funds-of-funds -- 3.16 Restrictions on futures and options funds (FOFs) -- 3.17 Restrictions on geared futures and options funds (GFOFs) -- 3.18 Restrictions on property funds -- 3.19 Umbrella funds -- 3.20 Investment trusts -- 3.21 'Offshore funds' -- 3.22 Hedge funds -- Part 2: Practical Aspects of Fund Management -- Chapter 4. Overview of the operation of a fund -- 4.1 The fund sponsor -- 4.2 The fund manager -- 4.3 Managed managers -- 4.4 The Authorized Corporate Director -- 4.5 The investment adviser or manager -- 4.6 The directors of the fund company (OEICs and investment trusts, not unit trusts) -- 4.7 Fund administrators -- 4.8 Registrar -- 4.9 The trustee (unit trusts) -- 4.10 The custodian (OEICs, investment trusts, not unit trusts) -- 4.11 The regulator -- 4.12 Distributors -- 4.13 Auditors -- 4.14 Legal adviser -- 4.15 Brokers -- 4.16 Insurers -- 4.17 Putting it all together -- 4.18 Tax considerations and the allocation of responsibilities -- Chapter 5. Valuations and pricing -- 5.1 Open-ended schemes -- first principles of pricing --T$10062. |
| Subject |
Mutual funds.
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Mutual funds |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Turner, Catherine, 1965- International funds. Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, 2004 0750658991 (OCoLC)71539139 |
| ISBN |
9780080491585 |
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0080491588 |
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(Cloth) |
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