{"id":43724,"date":"2022-06-30T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=43724"},"modified":"2022-06-30T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:10:18","slug":"research-fund-comparison-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=43724","title":{"rendered":"Research : Fund Comparison 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AS I state in the introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In last year\u2019s review of Canadian preferred share funds, I discussed the explosion in the number of decision-makers in the investment market-place; the decline in Defined Benefit pension plans and corresponding increase in Defined Contribution plans and other forms of saving have changed the investment world from one in which the decisions were made by a relatively small group of specialists to a world in which investment management is just another consumer good. This change has resulted in an explosion of consumer choice and a consequent rise in the importance of marketing to the success of any investment product, as opposed to old-fashioned concepts such as risk and return.<\/p>\n<p>In this essay I will discuss<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022 the manner in which investment decisions \u2013 particularly with respect to index funds \u2013 are made<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 the use of derivatives by index funds<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 the explosion in the number of indices in recent years, as the notion of passive investing has become more fashionable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2010 comparison is available via <a href=\"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=43607\">THIS LINK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look for the research link!<\/p>\n<div align=\" center\" =\"\"=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.himivest.com\/media\/prefLetterApp_1110.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/images\/ad_fundComparison2011_PL.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS I state in the introduction: In last year\u2019s review of Canadian preferred share funds, I discussed the explosion in the number of decision-makers in the investment market-place; the decline in Defined Benefit pension plans &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}