What is actually inside a fund
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An investor buys a fund by its name and its description. What they own is its contents.
Where to find the holdings
In the trust management rules and in the regularly published asset structure. Those are official documents rather than marketing material.
What to look at
The weight of the largest positions. A "broad market" fund in which a few securities take a large share is not broad — it replicates the concentration of the market itself. For the Russian market that is typical: Sectors of the Russian market: what it is made of.
The presence of derivatives and a cash buffer.
Funds of funds: if units of other funds sit inside, the fees stack and you pay twice.
The currency component
A fund with a rouble-denominated unit price can hold foreign-currency assets. Then its price depends on the exchange rate too, and that dependence is not always obvious from the name — Currency exposure: you have it even if you never opened it.
The liquidity of the contents
A fund is no more liquid than what it holds. A fund of third-tier securities facing mass redemptions has to sell illiquid positions, and that shows in the unit price — Liquidity: noticed only once it runs out.
The practical conclusion
Opening the asset structure before buying takes ten minutes and regularly changes the decision. Related: Tracking error: how far a fund trails its index.
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