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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 fund we are talking about mainly refers to the securities investment fund.
Whether fund units can be increased or redeemed 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.
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.
The subscription and redemption of open-end funds are carried out at this price. The transaction price of closed-end funds is the known market price at the time of trading; On the other hand, the unit transaction price of the open-end fund depends on the net asset value of the unit fund, which is unknown at the time of subscription and redemption (but it can be calculated after the market closes on the same day and announced on the next trading day).
The total number of open-end funds is different every day, so it must be counted after the closing date of the transaction, and divided by the net asset value of the fund on that day to get the net asset value of the unit on that day, which can be used as the basis for investors to purchase and redeem.
The net value of a fund unit refers to the current total net assets of the fund divided by the total share of the fund. Its calculation formula is: fund unit net value = total assets net value/fund share. The net value of a fund unit is the net asset value of each fund unit, which is equal to the balance of the total assets of the fund minus the total liabilities and then divided by the total number of unit shares issued by the fund.