Fund, in English, 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.

From the accounting point of view, capital is a narrow concept, which refers to funds with specific purposes and uses. The funds we are talking about now mainly refer to securities investment funds.

The role of the fund:

1, the role of the country in promoting economic development. Promote the horizontal financing of funds and the horizontal connection of economy, and improve the overall efficiency of resource allocation;

2. Establish and improve the self-restraint and self-development management mechanism of fund institutions.

3. Opening up investment channels for fund investors, expanding the scope of investment choices, and adapting to investors' diversified investment motives, trading motives and interests can generally provide investors with the possibility of obtaining higher returns.

Extended data:

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.

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