Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• Performance of mutual funds
• Advertising strategies
• Types and features of mutual funds
• Evaluating performance of mutual funds.
• Consumer attitudes matter in Capital Markets: Performance of Mutual Funds in Oman Market
• References

Description

A mutual fund is referred to as a fund that is in the form of a sponsor or a trust so as to raise trustee money by selling units to the public. This is done in one or more ways in order to invest in securities and the set regulations. A mutual fund is also referred to as a firm that is professionally managed and it is made up of collective investments that usually get money from investors and they use this money short term money instruments, stocks, bonds and shares. The fund manager who is also known as the portfolio manager trades the underlying securities of the funds thereby realizing either capital losses or gains. The port folio manager then collects the interest or the dividend income and these proceeds are then passed on to the individual investors of the fund. (Chout, 2010) The net asset value which is the value of a share of a mutual fund is calculated every day as a function of the fund’s total value divide by the number of outstanding and issued shares.