{"id":3150,"date":"2023-02-17T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:07:27","slug":"what-is-new-fund-offers-nfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-new-fund-offers-nfo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is  New fund offers (NFO)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About New fund offers:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A new fund offer (NFO) refers to the initial sale of fund shares issued by an investment company to investors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Similar to an IPO <\/strong>in the stock market, NFOs are intended to raise capital for the fund and attract investors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mutual funds<\/strong> are the most common type of new fund offering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Types of New Fund Offers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Open-End Fund:<\/strong> These funds do not limit their number of shares. These funds can be bought and sold from a brokerage firm on their initial launch date and thereafter. The shares <strong>do not trade on an exchange<\/strong> and are managed by the fund company.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Closed-End Fund:<\/strong> Closed-end new fund offers are often some of the most highly marketed new fund issuances since closed-end funds <strong>only issue a specified number of shares<\/strong> during their new fund offer. Closed-end funds <strong>trade on an exchange with daily price quotes<\/strong> throughout the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a mutual fund?<\/h3>\n<p>A mutual fund is a financial vehicle that pools assets from shareholders to invest in securities like stocks, bonds, money market instruments etc<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/mf\/analysis\/nfos-back-but-no-need-to-rush-bets\/articleshow\/97966367.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NFOs back, but no need to rush bets<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new fund offer (NFO) refers to the initial sale of fund shares issued by an investment company to investors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}