Loan taken for higher education from any other organisation or person will not qualify for claiming deduciton u/s 80E, says tax expert Vikas Gandhi.
The biggest tax advantage of investing in mutual funds is that the entire income received by investors is fully exempt from income tax.
Some MF distributors offer 'cash back' to investors who invest through them to sweeten the deal. This is a throwback from the days when LIC agents gave cash back to individuals who bought policies through them.
Investors who cannot manage an asset-allocated portfolio or rebalance regularly, or do not have an advisor, may opt for these funds, but only after a detailed study of their strategy, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Diversification is the key to achieve optimal risk-adjusted returns. Often, an investor is confused whilst deciding on the number of mutual funds you should consider holding in your portfolio.
Fund managers said they were now waiting for first-quarter results of IT firms, which begin with Infosys Technologies next Wednesday (July 11), to decide their investment strategy for the sector.
The domestic mutual funds such as Reliance Mutual Fund and Tata Asset Management Company are in advanced talks with global fund houses and investment advisors, in an attempt to offer global investment products to their Indian investors.
'There is still scope for selective stockpicking.'
Mutual funds are set to bag a huge chunk of the nearly Rs 3,05,000 crore cash reserves of the public sector companies.
Some of the public banks showed improvement; much more still needs to be done
Investors lost as much as 20 per cent of their money put into equity focused mutual funds over the past one month as the benchmark stock index Sensex dropped about 11 per cent during the same period.
The recent weakness in stock markets has provided an opportunity to buy quality stocks relatively cheaper
Rise in portfolio value triggers higher dividends.
The Sensex, which saw a sharp fall of nearly 800 points on the first two days of the week, rebounded with a 180-point gain on Wednesday, while the index continued its northward run the next day too, surging by 300 points.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
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Stock markets may soon witness a huge capital inflow from the domestic mutual funds, who are waiting for the right investment opportunity with a cash pile of over Rs 8,000 crore (Rs 80 billion).
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As per the latest data available with mutual fund industry body AMFI, the total AUM of ELSS, or tax-saving funds, stood at Rs 25,069 crore at the end of January 2013.
The fall in the equity markets was to put some pressure on the balance sheets of the top five asset management companies (AMCs) in the country. But, two of them have managed to buck the trend, thanks to the rise in their average assets under management (AAUM).
Tech Mahindra, the highest bidder for Satyam Computer Services, has tied up Rs 875 crore funding from mutual funds and insurance companies and is in talks with banks to mobilise Rs 1,000 crore bridge loans.
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This is the highest inflow in the past six months.
Only a small percentage of investors in our country are invested in equity and equity-related funds at any given point in time.
If you are investing your money only in public provident funds then should you start putting your money in mutual funds' systematic investment plans?
Choose the right scheme and occasional shifting will ensure safety with returns.
Public banks refrained from buying CDs of private banks, CPs of companies. The Reserve Bank of India had opened a 14-day repo window of Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) for banks at 11 per cent to lend to the mutual fund industry on October 15.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Top losers in the Sensex pack included Yes Bank, IndusInd Bank, Tata Motors, RIL, ONGC, Bajaj Auto, Vedanta, Tata Steel, TCS, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, which fell up to 3.29 per cent.
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Several institutional investors were ineligible to invest in these companies as they failed to meet the disclosure norms
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Here are some tips for salaried class to reduce their tax burden as the financial year is nearing its close come March 31.
Sebi has scrapped the fee for initial issue of close-ended MF schemes.
Funds like fixed maturity plans, which are close ended debt funds can give some indication of the returns they will generate. this too will not be assured. if you are looking for assured returns, then post office may be the place or an FD at a credible company, says Rahul Goel.
Concerned over the increasing flow of banking funds into the stock markets, the Reserve Bank on Friday tightened the credit facility for Mutual Funds and asked banks not to guarantee payments to stock exchanges on behalf of Foreign Institutional Investors.
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