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Open ended investment company'OEICs' are hybrid investment funds that have some of the features of an investment trust and some of a unit trust.Like investment trusts, OEICs are companies that issue shares on the London Stock Exchange, and which use the money raised from shareholders to invest in other companies. Unlike investment trusts, they are open-ended which means that when demand for the shares rises the manager just issues more shares. With an investment trust, if demand exceeds supply, the response may be a rise in the share price.The price of OEIC shares is determined rather differently. More like a unit trust, in fact, with the key factor being the value of the underlying assets of the fund. But in contrast to unit trusts, there is no bid/offer spread with OEICs, so the price of the shares should be the same whether you are buying or selling.OEICs are popular on the continent but were only launched in the UK in 1997. There are around 300 up and running, with a wide range of investment objectives. You can put an OEIC into an ISA.Similar MatchesInvestment bankInvestment bankFinancial intermediaries who perform a variety of services, including aiding in the sale of securities, facilitating mergers and other corporate reorganizations, acting as brokers to both individual and institutional clients, and trading for their own accounts. See: Underwriters. OverinvestmentOverinvestmentIn corporate finance, this refers to managers not acting in the best interests of the shareholders and investing too much (potentially in negative net present value projects). Ethical investmentEthical investmentThe policy of selecting stocks for your portfolio partly on the grounds of the ethical or environmental code pursued by the companies in question.If you ask ten people what they think is ethical you will get ten different answers. Ethical views, by their very nature, are subjective.The major exclusions tend to be arms, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, animal testing, environmental damage and the payment of exploitative wages in developing countries. But the list could extend almost indefinitely and a complete screening by the Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS) would eliminate 60% of the FTSE 100 index.You can screen out negative factors or adopt a positive screening process and select companies with a clear environmental policy, for example.An ethical fund or portfolio of shares requires an appropriate performance benchmark. It will not reflect the market movements as a whole as it will hold a higher than average proportion of smaller companies which are much more volatile than blue chips.EIRIS maintains a database which you can use to filter an existing portfolio or to build one from scratch, using your own selection of a wide range of criteria. EIRIS: 020 7840 5700. e-mail: ethics@eiris.org website http://www.eiris.orgIn February 2000 FTSE International launched a set of stock indices called FTSE4Good. This is a tradeable and benchmark index which requires member companies to meet certain ethical standards for inclusion. Investment climateInvestment climateFactors such as economic, monetary, and other conditions that affect the performance of investments. InvestmentInvestmentThe creation of more money through the use of capital. Further SuggestionsSystematic investment planUnderinvestment problem Bank Investment Contract (BIC) Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) approved investment trust Enterprise Investment Scheme Finite Life Real Estate Investment Trust (FREIT) Association of Investment Trust Companies Direct investment Income investment company Short term investment services Association of Unit Trusts and Investment Funds Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Alternative Investment Market Net investment local authority investment investment trust investment bond Foreign portfolio investment investment business Leveraged investment company Brown field investment Investment value Registered investment company Reinvestment rate |
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