In a period of high unemployment, financial planners recommend having six to twelve months of necessary expenses in a liquid fund available.
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Morgan Stanley, for instance, sponsors a fund of funds, Liquid Markets Fund I, that puts investors' money into an assortment of hedge funds that each impose one-way incentive fees (plus annual management fees).
Oppenheimer does disclose that it charges its funds 0.08% annually to reinvest their collateral in its OFI Liquid Assets Fund.
For an index to be a success, it has to be widely accepted and liquid, so that fund managers can trade futures and options on it.
Is the asset class available in a broadly diversified, liquid, low-cost fund?
Slow to sniff trouble at Enron, retail investors suffered when fund managers sold liquid assets to finance withdrawals from better-informed institutional investors, leaving individuals stuck with mostly illiquid paper.
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You probably also have an emergency fund that you keep liquid in a high-interest savings account.
The request will be answered only after depleting the entire liquid financial resources available with IMF fund.
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The small cap fund holds shares of liquid companies locally traded, as well as depositary receipts of Russian multinationals traded on the London Stock Exchange.
Split it anyway, so at least some liquid assets will be readily available to fund the trust.
Index fund costs are lower, liquid funds help to minimize spread of stocks, and commission costs have significantly dropped.
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With REITs, an investor can buy shares on an open exchange or invest in a real estate focused mutual fund, partaking in a highly liquid way of investing in real estate.
The United States Oil Fund ( USO) is the most liquid of all oil ETFs.
The fund holds the 43 largest, most liquid U.S. energy firms on the market, headlined by the likes of Exxon and Chevron.
The Powershares DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund ( DBC) is a widely followed and liquid ETF that tracks the changes in the Deutsche Bank Liquid Commodity Index.
Vernon Sumnicht, chief executive of iSectors, says the hedge-fund index was always the internal benchmark for the Liquid Alternatives model, but that the firm that reports iSectors' returns to advisers and clients wasn't able to obtain full access to the hedge-fund index data until recently.
An emergency fund is just what it sounds like: a relatively liquid account designed to cushion you against financial emergencies.
There are several ways to invest in small-cap stocks, including some very liquid small-cap ETFs, a closed-end small-cap fund, or through individual small-cap stocks, where the risk (as well as the potential reward) is much higher.
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Private placements like this one make up less than 10% of the fund, but they can pay about 3 percentage points more than simple and more liquid sovereign debt of the country involved.
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