Target date fund — A Target date fund also known as a lifecycle or age based fund is a collective investment scheme, usually a mutual fund, designed to provide a simple investment solution through a portfolio whose asset mix becomes more conservative as the target… … Wikipedia
Risk arbitrage — Risk arbitrage, or merger arbitrage, is an investment or trading strategy often associated with hedge funds. Two principal types of merger are possible: a cash merger, and a stock merger. In a cash merger, an acquirer proposes to purchase the… … Wikipedia
fund — A fiscal and accounting entity with a self balancing set of accounts in which cash and other financial resources, all related liabilities and residual equities, or balances, and charges therein, are recorded and segregated to carry on specific… … Financial and business terms
Hedge fund — A hedge fund is a private investment fund open to a limited range of investors which is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment funds and which pays a performance fee to its investment manager.… … Wikipedia
Mutual fund — This article is about mutual funds in the United States. For other forms of mutual investment, see Collective investment scheme. A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors… … Wikipedia
Index fund — An index fund or index tracker is a collective investment scheme (usually a mutual fund or exchange traded fund) that aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market, or a set of rules of ownership that are held… … Wikipedia
Venturesome fund — The Venturesome Fund (http://www.venturesome.org) was founded in 2002 in the UK and is an innovative pioneer of financial instruments for supporting social enterprises and is an example of the growing market for funding social entrepreneurs.… … Wikipedia
United Nations Children's Fund — Infobox UN name = image size = 250px caption = UNICEF Logo type = Fund acronyms = UNICEF head = Ann Veneman status = Active established = 1946 website = http://www.unicef.org parent = ECOSOC commons = United Nations footnotes = is called… … Wikipedia
tracker fund — Investment funds that invest in a share portfolio weighted according to the market capitalisation of the various shares in that index, e.g., the FTSE 100. They buy and sell shares according to changes in relative market capitalisation of the… … Financial and business terms
Disaster Risk Management in East Asia — EAP DRM Team placement within EAP Region s Activities The East Asia Sustainable Development Department (EASSD) has delegated the Urban Development Sector Unit (EASUR) as the focal point for disaster risk management (DRM) coordination in the… … Wikipedia
