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Growth fundA unit or investment fund which invests in the stocks of growth companies.Since growth companies often do not pay dividends, the income of the funds which invest in them is correspondingly low. The fund's objective is to achieve high capital appreciation. However the investment risk is correspondingly greater.Also known as maximum capital gains funds or capital appreciation funds.Growth fundA mutual fund that invests primarily in stocks with a history of and future potential for capital gains.Growth fund Similar MatchesNormal growth firmsNormal growth firmsCompanies whose earnings grow at a constant rate. Immiserizing growthImmiserizing growthEconomic growth that makes the country worse off. Bhagwati (1958) coined the term for growth that expands exports and worsens the terms of trade sufficiently that its real income falls. Johnson (1955) had shown that a market distorted by a tariff could lose from growth and had also, independently, worked out conditions for Bhagwati's result. Growth accountingGrowth accountingDecomposition of the sources of economic growth into the contributions from increases in capital, labor, and other factors. What remains, called the Solow residual, is usually attributed to technology. Capital growthCapital growthIn general terms, the increase in value of an asset.As far as shares are concerned, capital growth is an increase in share price compared to what you paid, and is one of the elements of what investors called 'total return', the other component being income through dividends.Research has shown that investing in shares over the last 50 years produced a better total return than investments in bonds or deposits, and capital growth has been a major part of that superior performance. There is certainly no guarantee that shares will continue to outperform other investments, but most observers believe that they will over the long term. GrowthGrowthSee economic growth. Further SuggestionsGrowth managerAggressive Growth Hedge Fund Compound Annual Growth Rate Export led growth Growth opportunity organic growth Growth rates Biased growth Aggressive growth mutual fund Stability and Growth Pact compound annual growth rate Sustainable growth rate price earnings growth factor growth stocks dividend growth Simple compound growth method Endogenous growth growth and income fund Growth and income fund Constant growth model Growth stock Compound growth rate growth bond Engine of growth Growth phase |
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