Stocks & securities

Stocks & securities

Stocks trades, exchanges and tools etc.

Industry: Financial services; Investment

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Global fund

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A fund which invests all over the world, including in the native country of its investors.

Sector funds

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Funds directed at a specific industry. These can be fairly volatile.

Regional funds

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Funds which invest into a particular region, e.g. East Asia.

Socially-responsible funds

Financial services; Stocks & securities

Funds which only invest in companies which meet their requirements e.g. for treatment of workers and producers, CSR involvement, carbon footprint etc.

Index funds

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A form of fund management which often outperforms most actively-managed mutual funds. Market indexes are tracked and matched by the fund automatically, making it cheap in terms of investment ...

Derivative

Financial services; Stocks & securities

A contract between two or more parties, whose price is based on underlying assets like stocks, currencies, interest rates etc. Used to hedge risk or for speculation.