Introduction:
A fund in a broad sense 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.
Fund form:
The big bull market in the 1990s created a batch of new wealth, and hedge funds blossomed everywhere. Because hedge funds emphasize the income distribution mode with consistent interests and the investment mode of "outperforming the market", traders and investors pay more attention to hedge funds In the next decade, the investment strategies of hedge funds will emerge one after another, including credit arbitrage, junk bonds, fixed-income securities, quantitative investment, multi-strategy investment and so on. In the first decade of 2 1 century, hedge funds swept the world again. In 2008, the total assets held by global hedge funds reached 1.93 trillion US dollars.
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Trust fund, also known as investment fund, is a collective investment model of "income * * * risk * * *": it refers to the way of collecting unequal funds of most investors who are uncertain in society through contracts or company issuing fund coupons (such as income coupons, fund shares, fund shares, etc.), forming a certain scale of trust assets, and handing them over to specialized investment institutions for diversified investment according to the principle of portfolio.