Vakif Securities Investment Trust

Vakıf Menkul Kıymet Yatırım Ortaklığı A.S. is a securities investment trust founded in 1991 to manage a portfolio of capital market instruments. Headquartered in Umraniye, Istanbul, the company counts Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi and pension funds and foundations for the bank's staff among its shareholders. Its shares trade on Borsa Istanbul under the ticker VKFYO.

Investment trusts pool savers' money and direct it into a diversified portfolio of equities, debt instruments, gold and other precious metals. By law, these companies' scope of activity is limited to portfolio management. Over the years, the company's name changed to Vakif B Tipi Menkul Kiymetler Yatirim Ortakligi before taking its present form in 2014; in the past it also traded under the ticker VKBYO.

For shares of this kind, the relationship between the share's market price and the trust's portfolio value, the general course of the interest rate and equity markets, and changes in portfolio allocation are followed. On Lzzo.com, you can see VKFYO's latest price information, an interactive historical chart and a return calculation for a chosen period.