What’s the difference between these finance vehicles? If someone could clear me up on the difference between Mutual fund, index fund, Funds, ETFs and Unit trust in the Singapore context?

I am pretty confused on the difference for these finance vehicles as some online brokerage can invest in ETFs and some are only in Unit trust?

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Frankie Rappaport

29 Jul 2020

Mutual Funds (similar structure in Singapore: Unit Trusts)

basket of different single securities with a defined investing approach/strategy, often actively mangaged (= stock picking which evidence shows works poorly or not, high portfolio turnover), price fixed only once a day, often high costs and on average underperforming something to avoid

A Mutual Fund could however also track a stock market index, then it probably would be much cheaper because passive management, still only one price fixing a day.

ETF = exchange traded funds:

basket of single equities, often (but not always) managed passively tracking an index, often (but not always) cheap, price fixing continously through the market open times.

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