What is the basic operating principle of the fund?

From the perspective of capital relationship, capital refers to funds specially used for a specific purpose and independently accounted for. Among them, including endowment insurance fund, retirement fund, relief fund, education reward fund, etc. In various countries, there are also special financial funds, collective welfare funds for employees, key construction funds for energy and transportation, and budget adjustment funds unique to China. In terms of organizational nature, a fund refers to an institution or organization that manages and operates funds dedicated to specific purposes and conducts independent accounting. Such fund organizations can be non-legal institutions (such as financial special funds, college education incentive funds, insurance funds, etc.). ), public institutions (such as Soong Ching Ling Children's Foundation in China, Sun Economics Prize Foundation, Mao Dun Literature Prize Foundation, Ford Foundation and Huo Burridge Foundation in the United States, etc. ) or corporate institutions.

Investment fund Investment fund refers to the investment organization system that uses the modern trust relationship mechanism to pool the scattered funds of various investors to achieve the expected investment purpose in accordance with the basic principles of * * * joint investment, * * * enjoying the benefits and * * * taking risks and some principles of joint stock companies.

Securities investment fund Securities investment fund is a collective securities investment model with * * * returns and * * * risks, that is, through issuing fund shares, investors' funds are pooled and managed by fund custodians, who manage and use funds to invest in financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, foreign exchange and currencies to obtain investment returns and capital appreciation. The names of investment funds are different in different countries or regions. In the United States, they are called "mutual funds", in Britain and Hongkong, they are called "unit trust funds", and in Japan and Taiwan Province Province, they are called "securities investment trust funds".

Index fund index fund is a kind of fund with the principle of fitting the target index and tracking the change of the target index to realize the synchronous growth with the market. The investment of index funds adopts the investment strategy of fitting the target index return rate, and invests in the constituent stocks of the target index in a diversified way, so that the stock portfolio return rate fits the average return rate of the capital market represented by the target index.

Umbrella fund Umbrella fund is actually an organizational structure of open-end fund. Under this organizational structure, the fund sponsors initiated the establishment of a number of funds that can only be converted according to the prescribed procedures according to a general fund prospectus. These funds are called sub-funds or constituent funds. The fund system composed of these sub-funds is called umbrella fund. Moreover, umbrella fund is not a specific fund, but a management method of many funds initiated and managed by the same fund sponsor, so it is generally considered that the term "umbrella structure" may be more appropriate.

LOF fund LOF fund is called "listened open-ended fund" in English and "listened open-ended fund" in Chinese. In other words, after the issuance of listed open-end funds, investors can purchase and redeem fund shares at designated outlets, or buy and sell funds on exchanges. However, if investors want to sell the fund shares purchased at designated outlets, they must go through certain transfer custody procedures; Similarly, if you want to redeem the fund shares you bought online on the exchange and redeem them at designated outlets, you must also go through certain transfer custody procedures.

The sources of fund income mainly include the following aspects:

Dividend income stock dividends or cash dividends distributed when investing in stocks of listed companies.

Interest income Interest income generated by investing in government bonds, corporate bonds, financial bonds, bank deposits and other instruments.

Capital gains The income generated by the bid-ask difference when investing in stocks or bonds of listed companies.

Other income refers to the cost or expense saved by using the fund assets.