Baltic Fund Center Adds 144 Investment Funds

10.09.2013 RIG

Tallinn/ Riga /Vilnius, Baltic market, September 10, 2013 – The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ) announces that as of September 10, NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market adds 144 Swedbank distributed investment funds to the Baltic Fund Center. The funds are offered in at least one of the Baltic countries. From now on, investors will be able to track and compare more than 250 different mutual funds available on the Baltic Fund Center’s website www.balticfundcenter.com. 

“We welcome Swedbank’s decision to include funds distributed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the Baltic Fund Center, increasing their visibility and accessibility to investors,” says Liene Dubava, Head of NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market Issuer Services. “Mutual funds offer a wide range of investment options for investors with different risk appetite. Before making an important decision where to invest, one can check relevant information and data on the Baltic Fund Center and compare the funds under various parameters”.

The Baltic Fund Center’s website contains information about the equity, bond, mixed, real estate, money market and other funds. These funds can be compared in terms of return, risk level, asset, etc. Also there is a possibility to compare the data of the funds that are investing in different currencies, since the website provides currency conversion functionality. 

“We are excited to add Swedbank distributed funds to the Baltic Fund Center as this is a great opportunity to show a wide selection of investment funds offered by Swedbank. We believe that a competitive advantage of Swedbank lies in the fact that it offers investment funds of both its own and other well known management companies,” says Rokas Gegieckas, Project Manager at Swedbank Baltic Investment Centre. “At the moment we add 144 investment funds from 8 different fund management companies, which allow investing in all major asset classes – equities, bonds and commodities; including different sub-categories. This is just a part of Swedbank’s offered funds, so in the future we are going to consider expanding the list of the Baltic Fund Center with other funds offered for public distribution”.

The Baltic Fund Center allows to get acquainted with the prospectuses of the investment funds, rules, information about each fund’s management company, distribution fees, and information on where to buy fund units. The ABC section designed for investment beginners explains the basics of mutual funds, gives an overview of their types, sets out the rights of fund units holder.

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