Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) is sovereign wealth fund funded by the oil industry and owned by Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital. 

Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In March 2018, the UAE’s President issued a law merging ADIC into Mubadala Investment Company, another UAE sovereign wealth fund, in an effort to reduce costs, streamline operations and further diversify the UAE’s economy after an extended period of low oil prices. Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 1:10
The Abu Dhabi Investment Council sought to invest the government’s surplus oil revenues in a globally diverse portfolio of actively managed strategies to generate positive risk-adjusted investment returns. Mubadala Investment Company was founded in 2002 as part of Abu Dhabi’s endeavor to broaden its economy and create jobs by investing oil industry proceeds into profitable companies.

Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC)

Active index funds track an index fund with an additional layer of active manager to yield greater returns than the underlying index.

An active index fund is a basket of assets in which the fund manager constructs the initial investment with holdings from a benchmark index and then adds securities unrelated to the underlying index or removes existing index components with the goal of driving portfolio performance higher. An active index fund is a basket of assets in which the fund manager constructs the initial investment with holdings from a benchmark index and then adds securities unrelated to the underlying index or removes existing index components with the goal of driving portfolio performance higher. A tilt fund is a type of mutual fund or exchange-traded fund that includes a core holding of stocks that mimic a benchmark\-type index, to which additional securities are added to help tilt the fund toward outperforming the market. An active index fund attempts to take a version of an index fund like the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500) and periodically rebalance all the stocks to match the proportions found in the actual S&P 500. Although an active index fund holds many of the same securities of a traditional index fund, they tend to come at a premium.

Active Index Fund

The Economic and Social Stabilization Fund is a government-owned investment organization that manages a sovereign wealth fund for the government of Chile.

The Economic and Social Stabilization Fund is a government-owned investment organization that manages a sovereign wealth fund for the government of Chile. The ESSF was established in March 2007 with a contribution of $2.58 billion, most of which was from the dissolution of the Copper Stabilization Fund, established in 1985, which the ESSF replaced.﻿﻿ The ESSF was created to stabilize revenues for the government of Chile and to help overcome fiscal deficits when copper revenues suddenly decline, as copper is Chile’s main export, or in periods of low growth. The Economic and Social Stabilization Fund is a government-owned investment organization that manages a sovereign wealth fund for the government of Chile. It receives the resulting positive balance from the difference between the fiscal surplus and deposits to the Pension Reserve Fund and the Central Bank of Chile. The other sovereign wealth fund that was created around the same time is the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF), which aims to help finance pension and social welfare spending.

Economic and Social Stabilization Fund (Chile)

Fund flows are the net cash that went into or out of specified funds, assets, sectors, or other market categories.

Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund and Exchange Traded Fund Flows for September 2020

Fund flow is the net of all cash inflows and outflows in and out of various financial assets. For the year to date ending September 2020, U.S. mutual funds saw total outflows of $317 billion while exchange traded funds (ETFs) saw a total of $313 billion inflows. When a mutual fund or ETF has higher net inflows, fund managers have more cash to invest, and demand for the underlying assets tends to rise. A fund flow focuses on the movement of cash only, reflecting the net movement after examining inflows and outflows of monetary funds. While occasional shifts may not be indicative of issues within the company, prolonged negative fund flows can be a sign there are some issues present, as this is a reflection of income not being sufficient to meet the company’s expenses.

Fund Flow

Growth funds invest in rapidly expanding companies that typically do not pay dividends but reinvest excess capital to fuel further growth. 

A growth fund is a diversified portfolio of stocks that has capital appreciation as its primary goal, with little or no dividend payouts. Growth funds, along with value funds and blend funds, are one of the main types of mutual funds. Large-cap growth mutual funds are one of the largest types of mutual funds in terms of market share. With high growth and high P/E and P/S ratios, technology stocks fit the criteria perfectly for growth funds. A growth fund is a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) that includes companies primed for revenue or earnings growth at a pace that is faster than that of either industry peers or the market overall.

Growth Fund

A hybrid fund is an investment fund that is characterized by diversification among two or more asset classes.

Vanguard Balanced Index Fund Institutional Shares (VBAIX)

A hybrid fund is an investment fund that is characterized by diversification among two or more asset classes. Target date funds vary from standard hybrid funds in that their portfolio portions begin with a more aggressive allocation and progressively rebalance to a more conservative allocation for use by a specified utilization date. The fund uses a fund of funds approach with 19% of the portfolio in a growth stock fund. A hybrid fund is a classification of a mutual fund or ETF that invests in different types of assets or asset classes to produce a diversified portfolio. A **blend fund** (or blended fund) is a type of equity mutual fund that includes a mix of both value and growth stocks.

Hybrid Fund

A managed account is an investment account that is owned by one investor but is overseen by a professional money manager or management firm.

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What Is a Managed Account? Managed account-holders have maximum transparency and control over assets; mutual fund-holders don't own the fund's assets, only a share of the fund's asset value. Pros
Customized managed accounts address the account holder's needs; mutual funds invest according to the fund's objectives. Also, investors purchasing shares of a mutual fund own a percentage of the value of the fund, not the fund itself or the actual assets in the fund. Money managers can demand six-figure minimum investments to manage accounts and are compensated by a fee, calculated as a set percentage of assets under management (AUM).
Robo-advisors offer algorithmically-managed accounts at a lower cost for everyday investors with low starting balances.

Managed Account

Passive management refers to index- and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) which have no active manager and typically lower fees. 

Passive management is a style of management associated with mutual and exchange-traded funds (ETF) where a fund's portfolio mirrors a market index. The efficient markets hypothesis implies that no active investor will consistently beat the market over long periods of time, except by chance, which means active management strategies using stock selection and market timing cannot consistently add value enough to outperform passive management strategies. For active managers to outperform the market, they have to achieve a return that can overcome their fund expenses, which are much higher than passive funds due to higher management fees, higher trading costs, and higher turnover. Passive management is a style of management associated with mutual and exchange-traded funds (ETF) where a fund's portfolio mirrors a market index. Passive management is the opposite of active management in which a fund's manager(s) attempt to beat the market with various investing strategies and buying/selling decisions of a portfolio's securities.

Passive Management Defined

A performance-based index determines net stock prices by adding the amount of all dividend payments, capital gains and other cash disbursements.

A performance-based index is a stock index that adds the amount of all dividend payments, capital gains and other cash disbursements to the net stock price. When measuring the performance over a given time period, the performance-based index will add these transactions to the net share price before calculating the index return. A performance-based index differs from a price index in that performance equals the sum of corporate events and price movement. A performance-based index is a stock index that adds the amount of all dividend payments, capital gains and other cash disbursements to the net stock price. It is fine to track the price return index, but it is a good idea to use the total return index when measuring or comparing the returns of a portfolio with an index.

What Is a Performance-Based Index?

A prop shop, short for proprietary, is a trading firm that deploys its own capital in pursuit of trading profits.

A prop shop is a trading firm that deploys its own capital in pursuit of trading profits. A trader can strike gold one day, give it all back the next, become wealthy beyond their dreams within months if good or lucky, or implode entirely and end up being escorted out of the building carrying a cardboard box and grim expression.
Until the enactment of the Volcker Rule, proprietary trading desks could be found at investment banks playing with big chunks of bank capital.﻿﻿ Sometimes these prop desks earned disproportionate amounts of profits for their hosts and sometimes they fared poorly. A variety of trading strategies are employed by prop shops for assets ranging from basic liquid assets like stocks and bonds to complex securities such as collateralized debt obligations (CDO), derivatives, and commodity futures. A prop shop is a trading firm that deploys its own capital in pursuit of trading profits. Buys and sells are typically executed by traders, but algorithmic trading is important for a growing number of prop shops.

Prop Shop

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia is that nation's sovereign wealth fund.

"Public Investment Fund (PIF) Further Strengthens Leadership Team with Key Appointments as Fund Continues Its Expansion

PIF Launches Five-Year Strategy Including Visions Realization Program 2021-2025

Largest sovereign wealth funds worldwide as of February 2021, by assets under management

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia was established in 1971, and is that nation's sovereign wealth fund. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia was established in 1971, and is that nation's sovereign wealth fund. The Public Investment Fund has supported numerous projects in important sectors of the Saudi Arabian economy, including petroleum refineries, petrochemical industries, pipelines and storage, transportation, energy, minerals, water desalination, and infrastructural facilities. The Public Investment Fund has put in place standardized procedures and guidelines to govern investment decisions, focused on building a diversified portfolio that achieves attractive, risk-adjusted returns over the long-term. The ​Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia is one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world.

Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia

S&P/Citigroup Broad Market Index (BMI) Global is a global stock index weighted by market capitalization that excludes U.S. companies.

S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) is a market capitalization-weighted index maintained by Standard and Poor's (S&P) providing a broad measure of the global equities markets ex-U.S. stocks. S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) is a market capitalization-weighted index maintained by Standard and Poor's (S&P) providing a broad measure of the global equities markets ex-U.S. stocks. The S&P Global BMI (Broad Market Index) comprises the S&P Developed BMI and S&P Emerging BMI. S&P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) is a broad-based index of global equities, excluding U.S.-based companies, and maintained by Standard and Poor’s (S&P). A country will be eligible for inclusion in the index if it has a float-adjusted market capitalization of US$1 billion or more and its market capitalization weight is at least 40 basis points in either the emerging market or developed world indexes.

S&P/Citigroup Broad Market Index (BMI) Global

A short-term investment fund (STIF) invests in short-term investments of high quality and low risk.

A short-term investment fund (STIF) invests in short-term money market investments of high quality and low risk. In fact, many short-term investments funds provide investors with checks that they can write against the funds in their short-term investment funds, for ease of access to these funds. Schwab’s Variable Share Price Money Funds require a minimum investment of $1 million and offers seven-day yields of 1.6%.
**Vanguard:** Vanguard offers three taxable money market funds and numerous non-taxable municipal funds. Money market funds are the most broadly known short-term investment funds. Short-term investment funds typically include cash, bank notes, government bills and conservative bond holdings characterized as safe short-term debt instruments.

Short-Term Investment Fund (STIF)

The Zacks Lifecycle Indexes provide a benchmark for comparison of target date or lifecycle funds that dynamically change asset allocations over time. 

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Zacks Lifecycle Indices are a series of indexes developed by Zacks Investment Research, Inc., that provide a benchmark for the lifecycle allocation of various target-date funds, with a different index for each target date. As such, there are several Zacks Lifecycle indexes, each with a date corresponding with the terminal date of target-date funds, typically in 10-year increments
Zacks Lifecycle Indices provide comparative benchmarks for lifecycle or target-date funds that have become popular with investors saving for retirement, especially those without the knowledge or interest to be actively involved in the management of their investments. Zacks Lifecycle Indices are a series of indexes developed by Zacks Investment Research, Inc., that provide a benchmark for the lifecycle allocation of various target-date funds, with a different index for each target date. Most target date funds define their target as either “to or through” the probable retirement age of a fund shareholder, either investing “through” that date or “to” that date. At launch, the five Zacks indices consisted of different combinations of U.S. stocks, international developed markets stocks and U.S. bonds for funds with target dates of “at retirement” as well as 2010, 2020, 2030 and 2040.

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