You invested in a fund. The fund owned dividend-paying stocks, real estate assets, bonds, and had a few derivatives thrown in for good measure. This weird fund accrues income throughout the year, agreeing to distribute that income annually to its investors.
So that's accrued income in an investment, but the term applies as an account payable on the balance sheet in the operation of normal companies as well. A saleswoman at an excellent whoopee cushion distribution company can earn up to twelve grand in bonus money if she hits bonus targets each month. The first four months go well and she accrues future income, or bonus money, to be paid out at the end of the year. See Accrual Accounting for details on how this ugly piece of bean counting gets measured. And then say "whoopee."
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Finance: What is pooling: investment/int...3 Views
Finance allah shmoop what is pooling Well it's aggregating no
no aggregating yeah Throwing in cash together partnering pooling interests
in an investment simply refers to two or more players
getting together to invest their money in whatever form mutual
funds are are pooled investment So our index funds hedge
fund bond funds etfs reads mlps any uh pretty much
and well every other investment vehicle that can scale to
allow for two or twenty or two million investors to
all come together and invest well Why would people want
to do this scale or rather synergies of costs from
scale Whether you have one investor or ten thousand you
need to file papers and there are usually pretty much
always lawyers involved and accountants and other wall street gum
sucking gadflies and the marginal additional cost of servicing ten
thousand pooled investors is only somewhat more than servicing won
So in many cases pooling makes a lot of sense
when investors interests are generally aligned and when they're not 00:01:07.229 --> [endTime] around there's trouble
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