Equity funds buy stock in a range of companies. For some investors, they can be a more economical way to invest than buying individual company stocks. Many, or all, of the products featured on this ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. A balanced fund is a mutual fund that typically contains a component of stocks and bonds. A mutual fund is a ...

The investment seeks long-term growth of capital. The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in equity securities. It investments in equity securities may include common stocks, depository receipts, ...

Liquidity Equity funds are generally highly liquid investments, meaning investors can easily buy and sell their fund shares on the market. This liquidity allows for easy access to funds when needed ...

Private equity funds are investment vehicles that pool together capital from accredited investors to acquire ownership stakes in private companies or, sometimes, public companies that are taken ...

The investment world is abuzz with plans for mixing public and private assets in single vehicles that the masses can buy. Private assets, fund companies say, have been out of everyday investors’ grasp ...

While institutional investors have been accessing the illiquidity premium and diversification benefits of investing a significant portion of their portfolio in private equity (as well as private ...

Asset managers selling private assets to everyday investors claim to have found investing’s holy grail: lower risk (or at least less volatility) and better returns. Is that true? The answer is mixed.

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In the past, the private equity world has been largely populated by ultra-rich investors, endowments and pension funds. That is about to change. Retirement savers with 401(k) accounts are gaining ...