Equity investment refers to investing in equity assets such as stocks and stock funds, including stocks, securities investment funds and stock funds.
stock
Stock is the abbreviation of share certificate, which is a kind of securities issued by a joint-stock company to shareholders as a holding certificate to raise funds and obtain dividends and bonuses. Each share represents the shareholder's ownership of the basic unit of the enterprise.
securities investment funds
According to China's "Interim Measures for the Management of Securities Investment Funds", securities investment funds refer to a kind of collective securities investment mode that investors' funds are concentrated by issuing fund shares, managed by fund custodians (usually reputable banks) and managed and used by fund managers (namely fund management companies), and invested in financial instruments such as stocks and bonds. Fund investors enjoy the expected annualized expected return of securities investment, and at the same time bear the risks arising from investment losses.
Generally speaking, securities investment fund is an investment tool that concentrates the funds of many investors, endows them with financial products such as stocks and bonds, and seeks benefits for many investors.
Stock fund
As the name implies, equity funds are funds that mainly invest in stocks, as opposed to bond funds, money market funds and other types of funds. Most funds in the market are equity funds. Generally speaking, the expected annualized expected return of equity funds is higher, but the investment risk is also greater.