THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
COLLECTIVE INVESTMENT SCHEME (PART 1)
Collective investment Schemes (CIS), are pools of funds that are managed on behalf of investors by a professional fund manager. In CIS, your money is pooled together with that of other investors, and spread over the whole range of assets within the fund.

? The term “fund,” often used interchangeably with the phrase “collective investment scheme.
? Funds may be “closed-ended” or “open-ended.
? A closed-ended fund will have a fixed authorized share capital and a fixed amount of capital in issue at any point, with relatively little flexibility in terms of adjusting this.
? An open-ended fund, in contrast, has the ability to create new shares/units to meet demand from new subscribers, and to redeem and liquidate them when there is net disinvestment.
? The assets owned by the fund are called a portfolio, and a fund manager manages them.
? A collective investment scheme invests in assets, such as bonds, equities or cash...
? Your investment in a fund is divided into shares or units, and the number of shares/ units held represent your proportionate ownership of the fund’s overall assets, and the return those assets may generate.
? The prices of these shares/units will fluctuate daily because the underlying value of the assets will rise and fall – and since the total value of the fund is divided by the number of shares/units issued, your individual stake will rise and fall to reflect this……(to be continued)

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