Saving a huge amount of money in the long run will help you to live a cozy life. There arises a question demanding the right age to start saving money. What do you think? Is it ok to start saving from the age of 30 or late 30’s?
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Mutual Fund
SEBI has mandated Mutual Fund Houses to come out with two varying options for all their schemes, namely Standard and Direct. The standard version of all mutual fund schemes will incur a charge which will be treated as an agent fee or commission and the direct plan is free from any charges. It thus eliminates the agent commission and will add to your profit and will make a good difference in the profit numbers in the long term. Direct plan mutual funds are grabbing the attention recently. So, what is Direct Plan and how does it make the difference in investing? Let’s understand how it can benefit investors.
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Year 2012 was full of surprises for the Indian investors. Looking at the weekly charts for Nifty in 2012 we clearly see it had something for every body be it trader or investor. Nifty has shown good support in 2012 around 4500, 4800, 5000, 5200, 5550, 5850 and so it does look like 2013 will be a year where there will be lot of support for market and so if you are keen to invest your money in 2013, there are three things that you need to know.
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Two individuals, one of them invested ₹3000 for 10 years and yet he made ₹1.43 Crore more than the person who invested the same amount for 30 years in the same asset class with same average return on investment.
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There is no Open, High, Low, Close values for mutual fund NAV and so you cannot have candle sticks but still can apply the price action chart patterns on mutual fund NAV for technical analysis.
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AMFI India has come up with ads – it is wiser decision to invest whatever little you can every month in Mutual funds. Can this Ads act be substitute to Entry load?
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There are many ways you can invest in mutual funds online. I will share the one that I use myself as well as other methods of investing in mutual funds online.
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Let me answer the question. I am N years old and earn few thousands a month and have no investments so far. How much should I invest and where?
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ETF are more in talk these days but there may be many question in investors mind about how helpful ETF’s are to retail investors? So let me answer few of those questions about ETF’s and if you have more questions do post them in comments and I will be more than happy to answer them all.
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As per recent regulatory developments, from January 1, 2011, KYC (Know Your Client) is mandatory for investors wanting to transact in Mutual Funds, regardless of the transaction amount. This means you will not be able to process any fresh MF purchases post January 1, 2011, unless you are MF KYC compliant as per CDSL Ventures Limited (CVL) norms.
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Ankush asked – One thing I don’t find here (understand) is “how should I distribute money”. Lets say for ex, I select 1 equity and 1 debt and 1 balanced fund and I am looking for higher returns then how should I invest?
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I was convinced that Portfolio management service or PMS can perform better than mutual funds. Yes that’s right. Now I share why I was convinced for PMS and why PMS cannot live upto your expectations.
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In a user based poll on Mutual Funds or Stocks, 72% of total reader’s of shabbir.in prefer to invest in mutual fund over stocks and so today I have come up with a collection of articles on mutual funds where I have listed best mutual fund’s in their own category.
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August 2009 is when SEBI abolished entry load on mutual funds but did it actually benefit the common man? I don’t think so. You may ask Why? And even argue that – I do not pay anything for buying mutual funds which means that I am benefiting a lot. May sound true but … let us see if it actually benefiting common man or not.
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Today I am sharing with you top funds in which I plan to invest. This means that I would be booking some profits from my existing funds and wait for a correction to get into the below listed funds.
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