Posts Tagged: mutual funds

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Direct Mutual Fund: Check its Features & Advantages

Mutual Funds have emerged as one of the top choices of retail investors in our times. Be it through tax-saving ELSS, foresighted SIPs, or just lump sums, everybody is into mutual funds in one way or more. Mutual funds are not new. They have been there for more than 30 years. However, increasing incomes over the years, reduced bank deposit rates, demand of market, and awareness among investors have led to immense popularity of mutual funds as an investment instrument.

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Liquid Funds: Safe to Invest or Not?

In the realm of investments, there are various kinds of funds available for investment. One such fund is liquid funds. There are quite mixed reviews about them. Some claim that they're quite safe to invest in, while others want to stay away from them.

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Bharat Bond ETF: Should you Apply?

Finance Minister recently announced that India would launch its first-ever "Bond ETF" called 'Bharat Bond.' The bharat bond ETF is a new move to develop an underdeveloped bond market in India. It will ultimately give a boost to debt availability to the PSUs (Public Sector Enterprises).

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Life Insurance: Term, ULIP, or Endowment?

Do you know that 19 people die every minute in India? The health standards are decreasing day by day. The newspaper is filled with articles of alarmingly high pollution levels, natural calamities, increasing crime, etc. Life expectancy has come down to 68 years. In such a situation, taking Life Insurance is a must. It at least provides financial security to the family. So an obvious next question would be, "Which Life Insurance to take?”

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How Important is NAV for Valuing Mutual Funds?

Whenever you plan to buy a mutual fund plan for yourself, the term that must have definitely caught your attention would be the Net Asset Value (NAV). This article is thus an attempt to answer intriguing questions related to the entire concept of the Net Asset Value. (NAV)

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Can DHFL Survive?

Some of the most important companies in India are facing serious trouble and it just reflects the management issues and economic slowdown peering upon the big companies. Last year, we saw a key non-banking financial company, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (ILFS) crashing down. The earliest private airline company, Jet Airways closed its shutters down. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communication filed for bankruptcy. Most recently, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) is facing survival blues.

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Term policy and endowment policy

“A life insurance policy is something that provides a dedicated sum of money on the demise of the policyholder or after a certain period of time.”

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Sector funds

These are equity mutual funds that give you access to a very small part of the overall market; they majorly invest in a particular type of business, industry or a sector of the economy. It can be any sector such as the Education sector, Automobile sector, Health care sector, IT sector, FMCG sector, etc.

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What is Top up and Step up, SIP in mutual funds?

A Systematic investment plan refers to investing a fixed amount of money at fixed intervals like monthly, weekly, or quarterly. If the investor can earn more while still invested in SIP, then he can either start a new SIP or can top-up the current SIP to invest more. Top-up SIP is a feature in which an investor has an option to raise the systematic instalment value by a fixed amount. This feature is provided by many mutual funds. This enables the investor to invest a higher amount of money during the tenure of SIP.

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What are Hedge Funds?

A hedge fund is popularly called as alternative investment fund (AIF) in India. Going by the meaning of the word ‘hedge’ which means ‘to avoid,’ so hedge funds talk about avoiding the risk of investment. Though hedge funds are mistakenly taken as similar to mutual funds there is a great deal of difference in the two.

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Top benefits of investing in mutual funds

If you don’t understand the stock investment and still want to invest in it, then, mutual funds are a likely bet for you. Investing in mutual funds is pretty much like outsourcing your investments to a stock investment expert.

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How to Invest in Mutual Funds?

Mutual funds are one of the most popular investment options used for generating wealth. Whether you invest in these funds through a broker or you invest in them yourself, here is what you must know about mutual funds.

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New Fund Offer (NFO)

A new fund offer (NFO) is the first offer given by a company to purchase a new fund. By launching NFO, the company attempts to raise its capital. Mutual funds are one of the most common types of new fund offerings by the companies.

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4 Reasons to start investing in mutual funds

First things first, Can you lose money by investing in mutual funds ?

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TOP MUTUAL FUND SECRETS

This special report has certain aspects of mutual funds that the mainstream media won’t tell you.