managed funds

Short selling is the practice of borrowing securities to sell on the market with a view to buying the same securities back at a later date. Thus, a short seller hopes to profit from a fall in the price of the security.

Used carefully, short selling can be profitable, however, it does carry a degree of investment risk. In Australia, short selling is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and monitored by the Australian Securities Exchange to ensure that it is not used for market manipulation.

From Financial Standard:

Managed funds have been losing ground to low-cost options, said one asset manager, leaving the sector with the difficult task of convincing investors looking for absolute return, that funds are a good idea.

From CNN: (By Joshua Morgan Brown)

Pimco is launching an ETF to track the biggest mutual fund, its Total Return Fund. Will this portend the end for mutual funds? We looked into the future to find out, and this 2022 story tells it all.

From MarketWatch:

Low global growth looks set to stay and is a great concern for investors. In such an environment, investment focus comes back to preservation of capital where the consistent and known benefits of fixed income within a diversified portfolio.