Investment funds and their role in financial markets : the state of the Saudi stock market

Abstract EN

Investment funds are one of the most important forms of savings mobilization at the present time there is almost no financial market in this instrument, a tool with multiple advantages that dominates the activity of the local market and other markets because it is a safe and effective means of transferring capital among the world's financial markets.

In the context of satisfying the wishes of investors and savers alike and keeping abreast of the global financial markets in the use of modern financial instruments, the idea of establishing investment funds emerged.

Saudi Arabia established the first investment fund in the Arab countries in 1979، The Kingdom succeeded in this experiment to reach 273 investment funds in this context, the paper discussed the problem of investment funds and their circulation on the performance of the Saudi stock market during the period (2006-2017).