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What is a Fund of Funds? A fund of funds is a mutual fund strategy that invests in other funds rather than investing in stocks or bonds. The underlying assets in funds of funds are actually more funds so they are very diversified investment options.

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Finance a la shmoop what is a fund of funds? all right well first there's a

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fund it has say a hundred stocks in it you know index fund, mutual fund,

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exchange-traded fund or ETF but then there's a fund of funds not just a fund

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of stocks but a fund of funds like if there was a fund of funds that comprise [Computer screens with graphs appear]

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ten funds and each fund had a hundred stocks in it while then that fund of

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funds would be representing the performance of a thousand stocks lots

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and lots of stocks and stocks because Amazon ships a lot of box and box it's [Man wearing Dr Seuss hat discussing amazon boxes]

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from dr. Seuss we got that for no charge notionally a fund of funds appeals to

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investors because well they can grow very large the fund of funds can not the

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investor when they're eating a lot because they're nervous in stock market

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I do that and then directly negotiate with money managers to give what is

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essentially a wholesale volume discount to shareholders of fund to funds thingies

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well if fund of funds comes to a hedge fund that normally charges a 2% management

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fee and takes 20% of profits well if that fund is investing a big chunk of [Lots of cash appears on a table]

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that fund say 50 million bucks well maybe they can negotiate for one and a

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half percent management fee in just 15% carry or something like that well it's

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not always doable but that's the tacit promise of the fund of funds people who

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knock on the doors of the wealthy asking for one percent a year for themselves [Fund of fund manager knocks on door and man opens door]

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for their own management fees on top of what the hedge mutual and while other

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funds want to charge theoretically there could also be a fund to fund to fund of funds

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but that's just a little too inception for us you know so just watch

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the fees if they they add up fund of funds can be fun....

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