List of Mutual Funds Articles

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.

One way to check the growth of mutual fund investments is by the AUM growth. A much better way to check retail participation is via folios.

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.

Members of the Exchange are hereby informed, that an additional facility of Early Pay-in of Securities (EPN) and Early Pay-in of Funds (EPF) without requirement of uploadingEPN, and .EPF files for client details is also being provided to members.

New investors or those who are not very experienced with investing look for more risk-free and stable options like a diversified mutual fund. However, seasoned and experienced investors can increase their risk appetite to earn 2-3% more returns. There are numerous investment instruments capable of giving higher returns than others but demand a higher risk appetite. One high-risk, high reward investment instrument is the credit […]

Getting started with Short Term Capital Gain Tax (STCG) Investors usually try to understand the risk and returns before investing in a mutual fund. They want their investment in different funds to witness capital appreciation. However, a factor that many investors oversee is taxes levied on the returns. For example- You open a fixed deposit account and earn returns at an interest rate of 8% […]

The market is growing and everyone is here to reap the benefits. Equity mutual funds are seeing a surge not just in net investments but also delivering extraordinary returns.

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 […]

Starting a mutual fund investment on your own is never easy. It takes a lot of time first to understand all the different kinds of mutual fund schemes and then match them with your financial goals. Direct schemes are not a specific type of mutual fund, like equity, debt, or hybrid. No matter what type of mutual fund scheme you end up selecting, you will […]

A closed-end fund that holds both common shares and preferred stock shares is a dual-purpose fund.

One of the common measures is the compounded annual growth rate or what is popularly called the CAGR returns. What is CAGR returns and how does it apply to your investments? What exactly is the concept of CAGR in returns? Be it profits or sales or investments; the one thing you want to figure out is how they grew over time. When the growth is […]

Financial markets make an intricate ecosystem consisting of several components. Within this web, there exists a myriad of participants.

Mutual Funds have emerged as a major investment vehicle for Indian investors today. With an AUM of Rs.38 trillion and an equity AUM of more than one-third of the total corpus, mutual funds have surely come a long way. What exactly is a mutual fund and how do they fit into the investment structure in India? Can you explain the concept of Mutual Funds for […]