Exchange traded mutual funds
Exchange traded mutual funds
Human beings are always evolving new solutions to their economic problems. There were some short comings in stock trading, to avoid them; the idea of mutual funds was developed. When it was found that the mutual funds have some problems, a new financial instrument was evolved called as exchange traded funds. These exchange traded funds are called as the exchange traded mutual funds. Strictly speaking, the exchange traded funds are not mutual funds. They differ a lot from your usual mutual funds. In popular concept they remain the mutual funds only. When you want to get info about exchange traded funds on internet, you always get them in the classification of mutual funds. Let us now go in to details of this exchange traded mutual funds. To start with the idea of stocks or shares was invented. Then it was observed that if you invest in a particular stock, you are exposed to lot of risk. How to minimize this risk? The answer was the diversification. Thus the idea of mutual funds was evolved. The aim was to give lot of diversification and reduce the high risks associated with the stocks or shares trading. It was observed that mutual funds do not have the flexibility of stocks. For example you can do day trading in stocks but same can not be done in the mutual funds. Then there was problem of high cost of experts’ advice. Though the mutual funds offered expert’s advice, many times the expense associated with it was pretty high. This made mutual funds less attractive economically. All these facts gave birth to the idea of the exchange traded mutual funds. Can there be some financial instrument which offers the diversification benefit of mutual funds and still can be traded as stocks any time of the day? This is the basic concept behind the exchange traded mutual funds. First point is these exchange traded mutual funds offer you all the advantages of diversification that you can get in any type of mutual funds. So you can get industry or sector wise diversification or any product or service type diversification in exchange traded mutual funds. You can trade them as you trade the stocks or shares. This is the real great advantage. They have low cost. You can buy and sell any time. You get all the advantages of day trading associated with stocks. Generally exchange traded mutual funds follow some index. This makes them fully transparent and passively managed minimizing the cost of management. If you want to invest in commodity, there is no need to go to commodity market, if you buy exchange traded mutual funds in that commodity, your problem is solved. The stock or share brokers deal in these types of exchange trades mutual funds at pretty low rates of commissions.