Whois & Analysis for tcw.com

Investment management is the professional asset management of various securities (shares, bonds and other securities) and other assets (e.g., real estate) in order to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of the investors.

Investors may be institutions (insurance companies, pension funds, corporations, charities, educational establishments etc) or private investors (both directly via investment contracts and more commonly via collective investment schemes e.g. mutual funds or exchange-traded funds).

A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities.

While there is no legal definition of the term "mutual fund", it is most commonly applied to collective investment vehicles that are regulated and sold to the general public on a daily basis.

They are sometimes referred to as "investment companies" or "registered investment companies".

Hedge funds are not mutual funds; they cannot be sold to the general public and are subject to different government regulations.

High-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a term used by some segments of the financial services industry to designate persons whose investible assets (such as stocks and bonds) exceed a given amount.

Typically, these individuals are defined as holding financial assets (excluding their primary residence) with a value greater than US$1 million.

The TCW Group is a leading asset management firm with a broad range of products across fixed income, equities, emerging markets and alternative investments.

With nearly five decades of investment experience, TCW today manages over $197 billion in client assets.

Through the MetWest Funds, TCW Funds and TCW Alternative Funds families, TCW manages one of the largest mutual fund complexes in the U.S. TCW's clients include many of the world's largest corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, endowments and foundations, as well as financial advisors and high net worth individuals.

A Found Operations in the England and or a private foundation in the United States is a legal entity set up by an individual, a family or a group of individuals, for a purpose such as philanthropy or an object legal in the economic operation.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the U.S. with over $38 billion in assets.

However, most private foundations are much smaller.

Approximately two-thirds of the more than 84,000 foundations which file with the IRS, in 2008, have less than $1 million in assets, and 93% have less than $10 million in assets.

In aggregate, private foundations in the U.S. control over $628 billion in assets and made more than $44 billion in charitable contributions in 2007.