What invest some of the largest mutual funds

Mutual funds are not interested only in publicly traded companies. Increasingly, they are turning to start-ups. Fidelyty Investments for example, negotiations for the purchase of a share of the supplier of cereals Blue Apron, which is estimated at 2 billion. Dollars. Fidelity is not alone!

Analysts CB Insights recently looked at trends in five major mutual funds - BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Janus Capital, T. Rowe Price and Wellington, pointing out that last year was the biggest for deals etc. "Start-ups".

An example is Wellington Management, who once in 2013 did not invest in US tech stocks for 2014 have made 12 transactions, including 71 million investment in Redfin and $ 40 million in the company's cyber security Veracode.

T.Rowe Price duplicate transactions in start-ups for 2014, as the Fund emphasized that always invest in "promising emerging companies that have the potential to add value in the long term," In 2014 T.Rowe increased its stake in companies by Airbnb and Dropbox.

Despite the interest of these funds in newly established enterprises, investments in private companies usually a relatively small proportion of the net assets of mutual funds. In T.Rowe these investments are less than 1% of the portfolio, but enable a high return in better development in the future.