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投资基金最早出现在1924年的美国。由于具有专家理财、分散投资的特点,在过去的80多年间,其发展极为迅速。据统计,成熟资本市场上投资基金持有的资产净值一般占GDP的50%左右。以美国为例,截至2006年4月,一共有8606家共同基金管理着92070亿美元的资产,约9000多家对冲基金管理着约19000亿美元的资产。这些数据表明,投资基金对于资本市场乃至整个经济的发展具有非常重要的意义。与共同基金类似的投资基金通过向社会公众公开发售基金份额获得资金进
Investment funds first appeared in 1924 in the United States. Owing to the characteristics of wealth management and diversification of experts, its development has been extremely rapid in the past 80 years or so. According to statistics, the net assets held by investment funds in mature capital markets generally account for about 50% of GDP. In the United States, for example, as of April 2006, a total of 8,606 mutual funds managed $ 9,207 billion of assets and about 9,000 hedge funds managed some $ 1.9 trillion of assets. These data show that investment funds have great significance for the development of capital markets and the economy as a whole. Investment Funds Similar to Mutual Funds Get Funds Through Public Offering of Funds to the Public