There are many reasons to invest through a fund, rather than buying assets on your own. At a basic level, investing in a fund means having a fund manager make investment decisions on behalf of the investor. There are many types of investment, each one having its own stated goals and objectives.
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An investment fund pools capital from many investors. Each investor has partial ownership and the fund invests according to the fund\u2019s objectives. Investment funds offer a wide range of investment opportunities.<\/p>\n
They can also benefit from diversification, lower transaction costs and management expertise. This can help mitigate some of the risk that individual investors take on.<\/p>\n
You receive reports on the fund\u2019s performance but have no influence on the investment choices short of removing your money from the fund and placing it elsewhere. Spreading risk is one of the main reasons for investing through a fund. Even if you have a small amount to invest, you can have a lot of different types of assets you\u2019re investing in \u2013 you\u2019re \u2018diversified\u2019.<\/p>\n
You can spread risk across asset classes (such as bonds, cash, property and shares), countries and stock market sectors (such as financials, industrials or retailers). Reduced dealing costs by pooling your money can help you make savings because you\u2019re sharing the costs.<\/p>\n
There is also less work for you, as the fund manager handles the buying, selling and collecting of dividends and income for you. But of course, there are charges for this. They also make the decisions about when to buy and sell assets.<\/p>\n
Active or passive fund management<\/strong><\/p>\n Active management<\/strong> Passive management \u2013 tracker funds<\/strong> If a fund buys shares in all 100 companies, in the same proportions as their market value, its value will rise or fall in line with the change in the value of the FTSE 100. Funds that track an index are called \u2018tracker funds\u2019.<\/p>\n Tracker funds don\u2019t need to be managed so actively. You still pay some fees, but not as much as with an actively managed fund. Because of the fees, your real returns aren\u2019t quite as good as the actual growth of the market \u2013 but they should be close.<\/p>\n Whether you\u2019re saving for retirement or just putting some money aside for the future, we can help you find the right fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mitigating some of the risk that individual investors take on There are many reasons to invest through a fund, rather than buying assets on your own. At a basic level, investing in a fund means having a fund manager make investment decisions on behalf of the investor. There are many types of investment, each one … Continue reading “Wide range of investment opportunities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homer-co.co.uk\/financialnews\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMost pooled investment funds are actively managed. The fund manager is paid to research the market, so they can buy the assets that they think might give a good profit. Depending on the fund\u2019s objectives, the fund manager will aim to give you either better-than-average growth for your investment (beat the market) or to get steadier returns than would be achieved simply by tracking the markets.<\/p>\n
\nYou might prefer to track the market \u2013 if the index goes up, so will your fund value \u2013 but it will also fall in line with the index. A \u2018market index tracker\u2019 follows the performance of all the shares in a particular market. In the UK, the most commonly used market index is the FTSE 100, a group of the 100 biggest companies based upon share value.<\/p>\n