Conservative Economic Commentary | Topic: Closed End Funds

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Subject: closed end funds

A closed-end fund, or closed-ended fund is a collective investment scheme with a limited number of shares.
New shares are rarely issued after the fund is launched; shares are not normally redeemable for cash or securities until the fund liquidates. Typically an investor can acquire shares in a closed-end fund by buying shares on a secondary market from a broker, market maker, or other investor as opposed to an open-end fund where all transactions eventually involve the fund company creating new shares on the fly (in exchange for either cash or securities) or redeeming shares (for cash or securities).
The price of a share in a closed-end fund is determined partially by the value of the investments in the fund, and partially by the premium (or discount) placed on it by the market. The total value of all the securities in the fund divided by the number of shares in the fund is called the net asset value (NAV) per share. The market price of a fund share is often higher or lower than the per share NAV: when the fund’s share price is higher than per share NAV it is said to be selling at a premium; when it is lower, at a discount to the per share NAV.
In the U.S. legally they are called closed-end companies and form one of three SEC recognized types of investment companies along with mutual funds and unit investment trusts. Other examples of closed-ended funds are investment trusts in the UK and listed investment companies in Australia. (Wikipedia Jan 2010)

The inefficient market

Free information has a time cost

By John Schroy, on April 21st, 2009 |

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The Crash of 2008 showed that the Efficient Market Hypothesis was fantasy. Although there is a huge amount of free information about investments available on the Internet, this takes time to extract and understand and time has a cost.

With too much free information, the law of diminishing returns kicks in. Critical information passes unnoticed.

Technologies are now available that allow us to take advantage of free information more effectively.

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