Who knows about investment funds?

Ok, I'm not a great user of the IF, just to buy up my own shares sometimes really.

But, am I right in seeing the interest rate has fallen in the last game year or so? On KB I am seeing all my welfare indexes fall and hence corp welfare and productivity. The graphs clearly show this happened in all countries and CEOs in exactly the same month. The same month divis from IF fell dramatically.

And yes I have fine tooth combed EVERY possible index and setting to find what may have caused this world wide phenomenon, including game levels. In fact my assets are increasing well as are my FIs, no change in war level, anything, nothing I can pin down but this drop in IF interest.

So Im hoping someone who pays close attention to these things can enlighten me, at least assure me I'm not going mad. If its not the interest then I dont know what but at least I will have eliminated one more factor.

BTW what really confuses me is the tax paid by workers is still pretty much the same where I would have thought it would have gone down with a lower income from the IFs.

Thank you in advance for throwing a rope into my square potential well.

I thought one of you out there would be well into IFs and at least tell me they are seeing the same as I am.

Has the IF interest rate been dropped recently, and why is it affecting my welfare so much?

IF Interest Rate fell from .40% to less than .18% in less than on real month and it looks like the GM plan to place it at .04% just like PF.

0.12 is what I'm seeing.

Looks like the last drop really hurt welfare. Guess because workers are getting less interest.

Which is why you should think of buying up shares instead of keeping it at the world bank, look for good companies to buy, i once managed to get it at 4T from 200B and it gave my workers some 800+ dollars more in income per month.

how do you get such high income fomrim investment funds just investting a lot in the high dividends corps? does most od the money cone from dividends or the buying and selling of shares? nd does this money go to the population and gets taxed or does it just go back into the investment fund

Yes PK I reckon you're right. Thing is I spend all my game time getting all 25 countries and 5 Ceos back in profit. I really cant force myself to get involved in IF funds. I have several IFs in the Ts but never before did I see an drop in the interest rate cause enough welfare drop to actually show clearly on the graphs.