Here is the first part of a series of articles to understand mutual funds.
The best deal for an investor will come from a mutual fund that has higher NAV appreciation and Sharpe Ratio and lower Standard Deviation.
UTI Mutual Fund has launched UTI-FAMILY (that allows investors to buy mutual fund units in their name, but the returns go straight to a parent's bank account.
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Systematic investment plans of top mutual funds that you can invest your money for better returns.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has amended rules governing mutual funds to allow the domestic fund houses to engage in short-selling of securities and stock lending and borrowing.
Investors were stuck in old schemes though they were suspended because of tax implications.
The Indian mutual fund industry has evolved greatly in the last few years and the regulator has pushed it to become more transparent and investor-friendly.
Are you sitting on big losses on your mutual fund investments? Is there a way in which you can recover your losses?
Investments under the framework would remain voluntary for employees.
For retail investors, who have money, but don't have time and expertise, mutual funds are perhaps the only way to invest in stock markets.
It is important to engage the services of a competent and experienced financial planner who can help you build a mutual fund portfolio
How well a mutual fund does largely depends upon the performance of companies in which its funds have been invested.
The first phase of this online platform will be in place by March 2010
Mutual funds are the right way to invest in stocks and bonds for individual investors.
The government is introducing a 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on UPI person-to-merchant payments above Rs 2,000, effective October 15. This move ends the zero-MDR regime, aiming to fund UPI infrastructure and sustainability, as the previous government subsidy was insufficient to cover operational costs. Payments between individuals and most everyday merchant transactions will remain free.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Despite the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) and the government's recent initiatives to attract foreign capital, which are expected to alleviate pressure on long-duration bonds, most debt fund managers are maintaining a cautious stance, favouring shorter-duration papers due to global uncertainties and potential future rate hikes.
Financial planning expert Sailesh Multani offers some investment tips.
In recent times, 'inflation' has emerged as a buzz word of sorts. Simply put, inflation is a situation wherein too much money chases a limited number of goods. This leads to a fall in the value of money. Inflation is often expressed as a rise in the price level. For example, a product that costs Rs 100 now, would cost Rs 105 a year hence, assuming that prices rise at 5 per cent annually.
India's mutual fund industry is one of the brightest spots in an already fast-growing domestic financial sector.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) stated that the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) "is distributed only amongst the UPI ecosystem, to further invest into infrastructure resilience, innovation, cybersecurity (protecting the UPI infrastructure with banks and non-banks) and customer service."
When making a buy or sell decision on a fund, it is essential to look beyond profits, says Kavitha Krishnan
Investors pumped in more than Rs 37,000 crore (Rs 370 billion) in various mutual fund schemes in May taking the total funds mobilisation during the first two months of the current fiscal to Rs 1.44 lakh crore.
In an hour-long chat on rediff.com on Friday, financial planning expert Vicky Mehta offered some valuable tips.
ELSS is a great instrument for tax planning which also ensures good returns. But investment should be carefully planned.
Foreign investors have largely been exiting one part of the market while domestic investors have been enthusiastically accumulating another, points out Debashis Basu.
After abolition of entry load on buying of mutual fund units there is more good news in store for investors. Now, they can buy or redeem (sell) mutual fund units over the Internet too.
Mutual funds can emerge as preferred investment avenues for retail investors, but the onus of educating the investor and getting him to invest, lies with the MF industry.
A look at five consistently performing equity mutual funds which look promising to perform well in the New Year.
Reliance Industries, Grasim, and ITC were the top held stocks by mutual funds in terms of value in July.
Buoyed by 'extremely good response' for its debenture issue, L&T Finance said it is open to enter into the mutual fund business through both organic and inorganic routes.
Mutual funds' equity buying remained elevated for the fifth consecutive month in December, taking the net equity purchase past Rs 1.7 trillion in 2023. The aggressive buying in December indicates that flows into equity funds are likely to have remained unaffected by the sharp run-up in the market last month. Mutual funds (MFs) bought equities worth Rs 23,000 crore last month (until December 28) compared to Rs 18,000 crore in November, shows data from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
