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Collective Investment Fund - Explained

What is a Collective Investment Fund?

Written by Jason Gordon

Updated at April 17th, 2022

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What is a Collective Investment Fund?How Does a Collective Investment Fund Work?Advantages of Collective Investment Fund - CIFInvestment Policy of a Collective Investment Fund - CIFAcademic Research on Collective Investment Fund

What is a Collective Investment Fund?

A Collective Investment Fund (CIF) is a fund made up of a group accounts or funds pooled and held by a trust or bank. CIF is otherwise called a collective investment trust (CIT), it is an investment instrument available to qualified retirement plans. In a CIF, funds are pooled fro the public to realize an investment fund which is then managed and invested in other types of financial or non-financial instruments. The assets, funds or accounts held in a CIF or CIT are commingled and must meet the specified criteria by 12 CFR 9.18.

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How Does a Collective Investment Fund Work?

A collective investment fund contains a pool of assets or accounts held by a bank or trust. The bank has a fiduciary responsibility to the CIF, it is in charge of management and investment of the fund into financial and non-financial products. To investors and end-users, purchase of investment in a CIF/CIT is a better alternative to savings because through CIF, the users have access to markets they would have otherwise not had access to with their savings account. The property or returns in a CIF belong to the collective investors whose funds or accounts were pooled.

Advantages of Collective Investment Fund - CIF

In the financial users and private investors perspective, a Collective Investment Fund (CIF) has many advantages, the major ones include the following;

  • Access to bigger markets that individual investors would not have access to ordinarily.
  • Professional management and investment of pooled funds.
  • Transparency and accountability of the fund handler which is commonly a bank.
  • A guarantee of high returns of profits on investment.
  • Favorable and preferential tax treatment.
  • Reduction of investment costs.
  • Less cumbersome management of investments.

Investment Policy of a Collective Investment Fund - CIF

There are certain policies that bind the operations of a collective investment fund, these policies vary from country to country but there are some common policies. Regardless of the country a collective investment fund is being operated, it must abide by these three major principles;

  • Transparency
  • Diversification of risk
  • Liquidity
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