17 CFR Parts 270, 275, and 279 Form

Instructions and help about 17 CFR Parts 270, 275, And 279

welcome to chapter 17 of the canadian securities course of volume 2. in this chapter we are going to be looking at mutual funds and specifically the structure and regulation of mutual funds so first off i do want to discuss managed products as in general mutual funds are a type of managed product but they also are things like etfs segregated funds um liquid alternatives things like that um and managed products they can be either active or passively managed um active management basically just means that the fund managers are actively managing the the fund so they're making decisions based on their outlook of the market and the securities that they invest in and they try to outperform a specific index by using active management whereas passive management is something that a lot of etfs use they basically they don't make their own security selections instead they basically sort of try and copy and index um based on weighting and the specific securities within it and their goal here is to