Category: Mutual Funds

How Investment Advisors and Financial Planners Get Paid The most expensive advice is free advice. Although this statement is often delivered as a joke, there is much truth to it: Like everyone else, professional advisors and planners need to pay… Read more

Which are the best mutual funds for you? How do you know which funds to buy and where do you find them? Should you use an investment advisor or financial planner? Or should you do it yourself? Although mutual funds… Read more

Some fund managers end up setting up their own portfolio management service after leaving the mutual fund industry. We look at why they may be doing it When Rs19 trillion money is at stake, what goes inside your fund manager’s… Read more

Categorisation by maturity period A mutual fund scheme can be classified into open-ended scheme or close-ended scheme depending on its maturity period. Open-ended fund/scheme An open-ended fund or scheme is one that is available for subscription and repurchase on a… Read more

When it comes to mutual funds or equity investing, various perceptions are usually at play in the minds of the investors. Share markets are speculative. They can give good returns, but the investor can also lose a lot of money…. Read more

Types of risks associated with mutual fund investments As we know that mutual funds offer a variety of schemes, it is also considered to be a diversified investment vehicle which means that to a large extent because of its feature… Read more

  Benefits of investing in a mutual fund? As an investor, you would like to get maximum returns on your investments, but you may not have the time to continuously study the stock market to keep track of them. You… Read more

Teaching has its advantages. Huge advantages I should have said. One such event happened yesterday…I was told that I had missed one of the best fund managers by not investing in Mirae. I was also told that by not investing… Read more

A fan of SIP me and many others like me have been espousing the cause of SIP for the past 20 odd years. It is a great product and has done a great job in the wealth creation process. However,… Read more

It must have been in 1998/9 when I heard about SIP for the first time from Suraj of Franklin Templeton – he now is the boss man in UTI. A fan of SIP me and many others like me have… Read more