Investment trust company is different from unit trust and mutual fund for the latter two can be continuously sold with shares redeemed according to the investors' needs.

投资信托公司不同于联合信托公司和共同基金，后两者均可根据投资者的需求不断出售和赎回股份。

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Incidentally, Goldman Sachs is slated to serve as the global coordinator and and book runner for its mutual fund unit's IPO.

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Yes, some are banks, but they are banks with large mutual fund (or unit trust) operations.

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One way of looking at these is as if they are a unit trust (in English) or a mutual fund (in American).

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