Pooled Funds
Categories: Investing
See: Pooling-of-interest. See: Family Office. See: Omnibus Account. See: Wrap Account.
When you pool your funds, you aggregate them. Like...everybody steps up to the edge of the empty swimming pool after drinking three Big Gulps and, um...contributes. Then that total pool of collected...funds...can be invested collectively.
Why would you pool funds this way? Well, it gives you more heft, volume discounts to services, better attention from the various players with whom you interact. The key friction point revolves around goals, time horizon, and abilities to take risk. If everyone's on the same page, then great. If not, then there are smaller ponds that individuals probably oughta make, and go it on their own.
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Finance allah shmoop what is pooling Well it's aggregating no
no aggregating yeah Throwing in cash together partnering pooling interests
in an investment simply refers to two or more players
getting together to invest their money in whatever form mutual
funds are are pooled investment So our index funds hedge
fund bond funds etfs reads mlps any uh pretty much
and well every other investment vehicle that can scale to
allow for two or twenty or two million investors to
all come together and invest well Why would people want
to do this scale or rather synergies of costs from
scale Whether you have one investor or ten thousand you
need to file papers and there are usually pretty much
always lawyers involved and accountants and other wall street gum
sucking gadflies and the marginal additional cost of servicing ten
thousand pooled investors is only somewhat more than servicing won
So in many cases pooling makes a lot of sense
when investors interests are generally aligned and when they're not 00:01:07.229 --> [endTime] around there's trouble