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Selecting the Right Mutual Fund Scheme
If you are open to taking a significant amount of risk for capital appreciation, equity and equity related mutual funds are your best bet. That means if you are investing in equity MF’s through the systematic investment plan (SIP) route … Continue reading
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Another Gold ETF Launched
Gold prices are having a dream run in the last decade. Gold Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) are the cheapest and safest ways of buying, holding and selling Gold. They eliminate wastage and don’t have the storage issues that physical gold … Continue reading
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Fee Structure of The Mutual Funds in India
The regulation of the fee structure underwent several tweaks and experiments even before Sebi did away with entry loads completely in 2009. Before 2006, for instance,both open-ended and closed-ended funds (strictly speaking limited liquidity funds, since their subscribers can get … Continue reading
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Retail Investors Looking at Mutual Funds?
The economic survey has called for increasing the participation of retail investors in the mutual fund industry while stating that there is scope for expansion of the industry from the present levels. The report has pointed out that in 2007-08 … Continue reading
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News from US: ETF is the way to go
THE exchange-traded funds (ETF) industry has the enemy in its sights: It’s the active manager, who runs a traditional equity mutual fund. When they first appeared in the marketplace, ETFs talked up such virtues as their lower costs, tax advantages … Continue reading
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Mutual Fund News in India Jan,09 Part 2
Mutual Funds News: UTI Mutual Fund on Wednesday launched new features for their customers on the mobile. ING Mutual Fund has revised the minimum application amount of ING Tax Savings Fund. FIDELITY International’s Indian asset management com pany on Wednesday … Continue reading
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Mutual Funds Underperform The Benchmark Indices
Those who hold that three to five years is an apt period of time to judge mutual fund returns could do well to take a look at the three-year returns of Indian mutual fund schemes at this point in time.More … Continue reading
ULIP v/s Mutual Funds
The area under consideration today is availability of insurance along with mutual funds; and this is likely to remain in the spotlight because of huge attention focused on the area. An investor needs to distinguish the position with respect to … Continue reading
What are the different Gold Funds in India?
There are five different Gold based ETF’s available for trading as well as investments on the NSE. Below, we list them one by one: Benchmark Gold BeES: Thiswas the first off the block Gold ETF available in India for trading … Continue reading
The Advantages of Systematic Investment Plans (SIP)
Ratan Gaikwad, while on his way to renew his mutual fund investments, was told by a friend that he invest directly with the asset management company to save on the 2.25 per cent entry load paid to the distributor. Since … Continue reading
