List of Mutual Funds Articles

Nifty BeES, a combination of a share and a mutual fund unit, trades on the capital market segment of NSE

A sinking fund is a fund created specifically to save or set aside money to pay off a debt or a bond. A company may face an immense outlay when the time comes to pay off debts and bonds issued in the past.

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) are the two principal stock exchanges in India that are currently active. Both exchanges are entirely electronic, with a combined total of over 7,000 firms. Millions of trades take place on both of these exchanges every trading day. Because these are electronic exchanges, you'll need a demat account to participate in the trading process.

Investing in mutual funds for a period of one-year needs a mix of capital safety and liquidity. You basically want to earn stable returns even if it is less than other longer-term investment plans. Obviously, when you talk of 1 year investment horizon, it cannot be an equity fund or even a hybrid fund. Even in debt funds, you cannot go for long term debt […]

Learn how Market Trends affect your mutual fund investments. Discover strategies for navigating market volatility and maximizing returns in any market condition.

Today when you talk of multi-cap mutual funds, there are two names that will obvious come to mind. There are the traditional multi-cap funds which has a restricted permission to invest in large caps, mid-caps and small caps. The other option is to opt for a flexi cap fund in the Indian context where the fund manager has much greater leeway in deciding on the […]

Investing in mutual funds includes various options. There is a growth plan, dividend plan and dividend reinvestment plan. This article describes the intricacies of an automatic reinvestment plan in detail.

More and more people now know how investing in mutual funds can be beneficial in creating wealth for short-term and long-term. It has become necessary to help new investors understand the different types of mutual funds that one can invest in. Mutual funds, as most of us know by now, are funds that are pooled from many investors and invested collectively in securities like equity, […]

Mutual funds have become extremely popular in recent times due to the many advantages it offers. For example, mutual funds diversify risk, they take away the hassle of deciding what to buy and when to buy, they give you a wide choice and above all, mutual funds help you to meet financial goals. There is generally a myth in the market that investing in mutual […]

Most things come at a cost. These costs can be fixed expenses like rent or insurance or variable expenses like your personal care, entertainment, shopping, etc. Investments are popular for their return-generating power, but it has a few expenses.

A tested method of investing is through a mutual fund. It offers the benefit of diversification. This means that if a mutual fund you own performs portly, then you will not lose as much money as you would have in the case of individual stocks.

Equity-oriented mutual funds come with higher return potential, although they also carry a certain amount of risks. This post will help you understand what these funds are and how they work. They are primarily of three types – Equity Funds, Debt Funds and Hybrid Funds. Equity mutual funds are those where the predominant percentage of the corpus of the collected fund is invested in equity […]

How are mutual funds taxed? Are they taxed like equity instruments or like debt instruments? Are there any special advantages of investing through mutual funds? One of the major advantages of investing in mutual funds, that is oft quoted, is that it is tax efficient. Before getting into specifics of tax implications of mutual funds, let us first understand how mutual funds are classified into […]

A Net Asset Value or NAV plays a major role when buying a mutual fund investment. The latter is still considered as one of the most popular safe investment choices worldwide.

One of India’s leading credit rating agencies, CRISIL, has a dedicated rating model for mutual funds also, apart from debt and infrastructure projects, where they specialize. The CRISIL model essentially ranks mutual funds based on various parameters. Rating plays a crucial role in determining the authenticity of the fund and its ability to perform in the future. While ratings are not a guarantee of future […]