Captive Fund
Captive funds are investments that are offered to a single group of lucky bastards...er, we mean to a single group of well deserving, talented employees (or to a private entity). Similar to Z Shares, captive funds can be managed internally by the company or by a professional (like an institutional investment manager), and can also be used as an alternative investment vehicle for venture capital assets.
Seen as a lucrative employment perk by many, these funds manage employee capital and typically have a better rate of return than publicly traded funds. But they're not offered to the public nor are they available on any exchanges. Stinks right (well, at least for the rest of us)?
An example: the legendary, mega Medallion Fund from fund manager Renaissance Technologies, whose captive fund historically boasts fat, stratospheric returns for its employees year over year. How fat? Let's just say their employees aren't worried about eating beans and weenies every night or having enough to retire on. Wish you could participate? Us too, but don't quit your day job. We hear their employee turnover rate is pretty low...Wonder why that is?
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Finance a la shmoop what is a closed-end fund? well it's a type of mutual fund [Man approaches mutual fund desk]
only like a bank at any convenient time it's closed
like its assets are enclosed in its price closed means that the fund itself
doesn't actively trade assets back and forth inside of it on a daily basis like
the most famous closed-end mutual fund in the world is Berkshire Hathaway [Man pushing pram of a baby with Berkshire Hathaway briefcase for a head]
Warren Buffett's you know other child the successful one it owns 40 or 50 key
assets from Geico to train companies to metal machinery firms in Israel to
boatloads of shares of stocks like coca-cola and Gillette and Wells Fargo
all of those assets are wrapped up in a tidy BRK bow and the stock market values [Stock market values appear]
ticker BRK daily by trading it back and forth among investors so yes the assets
inside of the fund do change but in an analogous mutual fund that is open the
value placed on the shares is at what is called net asset value, that value is
calculated by just adding up the 843 stocks at the mutual fund owns or however
many the number is and then just calculating a value based on the number [Calculation appears]
of share units comprising that open end mutual fund the closed-end fund has no
changes that way it's just investors valuing the whole bucket of investments
in one closed number now if you'll excuse us we have to get back to [Baby crying in a crib with Berkshire Hathaway briefcase for head]
babysitting for Warren Buffett isn't she just an angel
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