Long-term investment
Investment funds are the winning horse's face to the individual investor by the intrinsic features offered. In general, obviously a transfer of capital into this kind of assets generated by the environment in which we find ourselves, characterised by very low returns on bank deposits.
It is an attractive solution in the context of very low interest rates: Hedge funds constitute an interesting formula for profitable savings through different financial assets, with different levels of risk, susceptible to provide a satisfactory return on investment.
Profitability: It is an investment that is characterized by being in a collective way, thus exploit economies of scale, managing important assets at lower operating costs over individual investment.
Tranquility: They are managed with the knowledge and experience of professionals, familiar with the financial markets.
Liquidity: They have a high degree of liquidity, and offer the possibility of reimbursing shares at any time, provided partial or fully the investment within a period of 48 to 72 hours.
Diversity: They allow investing in different assets and markets (diversification), as opposed to the equity markets (for example, buy shares directly) in which individual investors, to access certain markets (USA, Asia...), must pay such access to their platform or Bank (depends on where operate) to access them, on the other hand, mutual funds allow you to access any market making contributions in the Fund.
Taxation: Enjoy great tax advantages, allowing you to defer the payment of taxes until the customer decides to refund your money. In addition, customer may transfer their assets from a fund to another without any fiscal impact.
Short term investment
Hedging transactions.
Speculative trading.
Arbitrage operations.
Operations Intraday (daytrading).
Strategy pair (pair trading).
With respect to the fixed income, the AIAF market is the relevant market for corporate debt or private fixed income, there are also other ways to make profitable savings through this type of markets and bags and Mercados Españoles (BME) provides access to the alternative stock market, the electronic system of debt negotiation, the electronic system for trading in financial assets or fixed-income trading system.