From the investment direction, funds can be divided into several categories: money funds, bond funds, hybrid funds and equity funds. Equity funds and hybrid funds mainly invest in the stock market, and the risks are self-evident.

Fund:

Funds can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, a fund refers to a certain amount of funds set up for a certain purpose. It mainly includes trust and investment funds, provident funds, insurance funds, retirement funds and funds of various foundations. People usually refer to funds mainly as securities investment funds. The narrow sense fund here usually refers to the securities investment fund. In order not to cause misunderstanding, it is usually referred to as a fund for short. People usually refer to funds as securities investment funds.

There are three main analysis methods of securities investment:

Basic analysis, technical analysis and evolution analysis, in which basic analysis is mainly applied to the value judgment and selection of investment objects, while technical analysis and evolution analysis are mainly applied to the time and space judgment of specific investment operations as an important supplement to improve the effectiveness and reliability of securities investment analysis.

According to different standards, securities investment funds can be divided into different types:

(1) According to whether the fund unit can be increased or redeemed, it can be divided into open-end funds and closed-end funds. Open-end funds are not traded on the market (as the case may be), but are purchased and redeemed by banks, brokers and fund companies, and the fund scale is not fixed; Closed-end funds have a fixed duration and are generally listed and traded on the stock exchange. Investors buy and sell fund shares through the secondary market.

(2) According to different organizational forms, it can be divided into corporate funds and contractual funds. A fund is established by issuing fund shares to establish an investment fund company, which is usually called a corporate fund; The establishment of fund managers, fund custodians and investors through fund contracts is usually called contractual funds. China's securities investment funds are all contractual funds.

(3) According to the different investment risks and returns, it can be divided into growth funds, income funds and balanced funds.

(4) According to different investment objects, it can be divided into stock funds, bond funds, money market funds and futures funds.