List of Mutual Funds Articles

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

Lowest Expense Ratio Mutual Funds: Get a list of all the LER funds here at India infoline. Continue reading here to know more.

While switching you need to take into consideration the implications of exit-load and capital gains tax. There is no problem with the settlement period for a switch within the same fund house.

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.

To understand the impact of the lower TER, let us take the case of two plans of the same fund; Regular Plan and the Direct Plan. The initial NAV is assumed to be Rs100 and the TER of the Direct Plan is 1.80% as against the Regular Plan TER of 2.45%. Let us look at two different scenarios of returns and see how the lower TER impacts returns.

A feeder fund is a one-of-a-kind investment vehicle that does not make direct investments. This is a type of mutual fund that invests in debt or equity securities.

A load fund is a type of mutual fund where the investors are required to pay a certain amount as fees.

Abnormal returns — also popularly known as ‘alpha returns’ or ‘excess returns’ — are unexpected returns from a security or a portfolio, that are not congruent with market returns. Instead, it is the result of investor expertise.

Investing in Mutual Funds are an efficient and effective way of getting more bang for the buck. Today, the number of mutual fund folios in India has crossed 12.3 crore while the number of SIP folios has crossed 5.3 crore. For any investor, the big challenge is about selecting the right mutual fund which is among the top performers in the category.

What do we understand by fund management? Let us say, you have a corpus of Rs.5 lakhs or you have a monthly surplus of Rs.10,000. Either ways, you are in a position to invest money smartly, but you don’t know how to go about it. One way is to give the funds to a professional fund manager like a mutual fund or a portfolio manager […]

How are ELSS funds different from normal equity funds? Structurally both are equity funds with an equity portfolio mix. Hence, the only difference is the lock-in period in ELSS, which makes them eligible for tax breaks under Section 80C. How does the lock-in period in ELSS schemes work? Equity linked savings schemes (ELSS) are a variant of equity funds with a tax benefit embedded in […]

We all know that we need debt in our portfolio as it brings safety, stability and regular income. You obviously cannot put all your money in equities as then the risk in the event of downside would be just too high. But that is where the problem starts. You have a big choice of debt products like bonds, debentures, government securities, bank FDs, corporate FDs, […]

Let us start with a small riddle. You have a choice of two funds. Fund A has given 14% annualized returns over the last 3 years and each year the returns have been in the range of 12% to 15%. Then there is Fund B that has given 16% annualized returns over the last 3 years. However, its returns in the last 3 years have […]

There are many tax-saving instruments available under section 80C of the Income Tax Act. In this post, we compare two popular tax-saving instruments- ELSS and PPF. While both options help you save tax under section 80C of the Income Tax Act, they differ in many ways. Let’s understand the differences. What is ELSS? Equity Linked Saving Schemes (ELSS) is an equity-oriented scheme where at least […]

With investment options such as equity, the timing of your entrance into the market is of prime importance. A common mistake new investors make is that they miss the market’s ideal entry and exit points. They tend to invest when the market is already at the peak of the bull market and are forced to sell at a loss when the prices crash in the […]