How to select the best mutual funds for long term?
Mutual funds can be your pick if you wish to benefit from stock market and still want to stay away from actual share trading and instead would like to get the funds managed by a professional and experienced fund manager. Mutual funds can be aligned to your timeline and time horizon of financial goals. Instead of investing in fixed deposits or insurance unnecessarily for long term, mutual...
Should You Invest Directly In Equity Or Via MF’S?
Investment done at any age is a good way to get a large amount of corpus on maturity. While doing investments, many people get confused whether to invest in equity, mutual funds, SIP or through other Investment instruments available. It has always been a tricky question whether you should invest directly in Equity or via Mutual funds. These decisions often make it difficult for people to...
Understanding Mutual Fund NAV While Investing
Mutual funds are an attractive avenue for investing your surplus cash. They are affordable and they also promise good returns in the long run. Moreover, there are various types of mutual fund schemes which you can choose as per your risk preference. The growth of a mutual fund scheme is measured by the change in its Net Asset Value (NAV). NAV is a very important concept in mutual fund...
Debt Mutual Funds – Must Know About all 16 Categories
In order to bring uniformity in mutual fund investments, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) prescribed a uniform classification of mutual fund schemes a few years ago in October 2017. But most of the investors are still not aware of this classification. Mutual fund houses were required to align their existing and potential schemes under the prescribed categorisation. Equity...
Understanding Arbitrage Funds
Before jumping directly to understand what Arbitrage Funds are, let us first understand the basic meaning of “Arbitrage”. In simple words, arbitrage means buying in one market and selling in another market. For example, I buy a T-shirt in one market for say Rs. 700 and I sell that T-Shirt in another market where the demand is more at a price of Rs. 850. I have instantly made a profit of...
Mutual Fund 101
Savings is a habit you cannot force on anyone. It has to come naturally. People have to understand the importance of it, that’s the only time…