What Is an Interval Fund?

An interval fund is a non-traditional type of closed-end mutual fund that periodically offers to buy back a percentage of outstanding shares from 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:shareholders. Shareholders are not, however, often require♔d to sell their shares back 🤪to the fund.

This can be 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网ꦬ:contrasted with traditional closed-end funds that raise a prescribed amount of capital only at one point in time, often throu🅠gh an IPO. After all the shares have been ༒sold, the offering is "closed" to new assets—hence, the name. No new investment capital flows into the fund.

Understanding Interval Funds

Although shares of a traditional closed-end fund may exchange on the secondary market, interval fund shares typically do not trade on the 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:secondary market, though many interval funds do offer shares for sale at current 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:net asset value (NAV) on a continuous basis.

Periodic repurchase offers come at preset intervals of three, six, or twelve months, as outlined in the fund’s 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:prospectus and 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:annual report. The repurchase price is based on the per-share NAV on a date specified (and announced in advance) by the fund. Note that most often, shareholders in the fund have the option to redeem their shares at the intervals and are not requiredꦕ to do so.

The repurchase announcement will specify a date by which you must accept the repurchase offer and the percentage of all outstanding shares the fund will buy—usually 5%, and sometimes up to 25%. Since repurchase is done on a pro-rata basඣis, there is no guarantee investors can redeem the number of shares they want during a given redemption interval.

Fees for interval funds tend to be higher than for other types of mutual funds, as do returns0. 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Minimum investments are often between $10,000 and $25,000 and have 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:expense ratios as high as 3%. 

Interval funds are regulated primarily under Rule 23c-3 of the 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Investment Company Act of 1940 and are subject to the rules of the 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Securities Act of 1933 and the 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Example of an Interval Fund

The Pimco Flexible Credit Income Fund, whiꦓch aims to provide a flexible approach to credit investing, is one example of an interval fund. Like all interval funds, it does not trade publicly.

There are three💎 main reasons the bond firm chose the interval fund model:

1. It offers a larger universe of opportunities and allows the managers to invest in its highest-conviction credit ideas such as private debt transactions.
2. It gives investors a greater exposure to higher-yielding credit markets while avoiding the lower realized returns that can result from investor psychology, promoting longer-term investment periods. Investing in higher-yielding, less liquid assets presents a challenge in open-end 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:mutual funds, which have daily liquidity.
3. Investors can sell their shares back to the firm at net asset value (NAV) instead of at a discount or premium, unlike other closed-end funds.