Know the Tax Treatment for Mutual Funds
Mutual Funds are one of the best investment avenues when it comes to creating wealth in the long term. In order to grow your wealth, your portfolio needs to beat inflation and mutual fund is an investment avenue which ensures that you beat inflation in the long term. It seems quite convenient for those who do not want to jump into the market directly. Since mutual funds are professionally...
Debt Mutual Funds – Must Know About all 16 Categories
In order to bring uniformity in mutual fund investments, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) prescribed a uniform classification of mutual fund schemes a few years ago in October 2017. But most of the investors are still not aware of this classification. Mutual fund houses were required to align their existing and potential schemes under the prescribed categorisation. Equity...
SIP-Tool to Build Wealth Through Mutual Funds
Looking at the current market situation, you might feel this is not the right time to invest as the markets are volatile due to slow economic conditions owing to global spread of deadly coronavirus. The impact has aggravated in most sectors due to extended lockdown in the country which is now at a stage of phased unlock.However, to create wealth for the long term, this would be the best time...
How To Solve The Biggest Problems With Term Insurance
Coronavirus made us realise the importance of having adequate insurance to protect our family from any unforeseen incident. We all know that life insurance gives financial protection to your family when you are no longer there to care for them. There are different types of life insurance policies to cater to your different needs. One of them is Term Insurance. Term Insurance is a...
Top 5 Insiders Helping You With Wealth Creation
Financial experts say that – Disciplined equity investing can change your life in a disciplined way! This means that the one who masters in equity investing can have a sound and safe financial future. Isn’t that great? With strong wealth creation strategies and practices, one can create their own strong financial base that could further prove to be a strong financial support for the...
Things To Do When Your Funds Are Underperforming!
Considering the current situation, where the market is down owing to COVID-19 pandemic, many of you must be thinking how to identify underperforming mutual funds. Although if you have invested for long term goals, short term volatility should not bother you. But still you should learn to identify underperforming funds and to take corrective action. Mutual funds have been the most amazing...
How to measure risk in Mutual Funds?
While investing in mutual funds, it is important that you look at past returns, compare the returns with the benchmark, category average and it’s peers. But returns should not be the only criteria while selecting a mutual fund. One should also look at how much risk is associated with the particular scheme. Risk and return are two sides of the same coin and thus we should not ignore the...
Provide your child with the best education using SIP
Current financial situation of almost all the households is suffering owing to COVID-19 pandemic. The reason being layoffs, salary cut, fewer employment opportunities, business going into losses because of low consumption. Amid all this, students’ education is also at stand still as regular classes could not be conducted with the country under lockdown. As the lockdown has been...
Everything you Need To Know About Debt Funds
Debt funds are basically mutual funds that are invested in fixed income securities like bonds, treasury bills, govt. securities, money market instruments. These bonds can be short term, medium term and long term. The maturity is for a fixed period. The returns are not that high as compared to equity, but they are linked to the market performance of the securities they are invested in. Debt...