30th January 2009
Pension Plan helps the average investor to accumulate wealth over the period in order to meet his/her expenses after retirement. Usually it is the insurance companies that draw customers with the array of pension plans that they provide, but the lesser kn...
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21st January 2009
There are a couple of ways that you can invest in a Mutual fund; one is a one time payment and the other through periodic investments. The later is termed to be Mutual Fund SIP. When you go for one time investments, you just hand over the cheque and you g...
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16th January 2009
As the name suggests ELSS (equity linked savings scheme), invests primarily in equity shares of companies. As per financial regulations, the scheme Fund manager has to invest 80% of the total amount in the equity shares and the remaining 20% per cent can ...
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08th January 2009
Prior to opting for a tax saving mutual fund, it is important that the investor consider certain important factors such as performance, investment style, expenses(entry load & exit load) and other critical parameters. This is done to ensure that the inves...
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08th January 2009
By nature Mutual Funds are not tax saving instruments but some mutual fund investment products also offers tax saving plans. Generally income that is earned from Mutual funds is categorized under two heads dividend and capital gains. Given that the tax im...
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05th September 2008
When you invest in Mutual Funds it is always advised that you bifurcate your investment amongst various Assets (stocks, funds, Bonds) that you intend to invest upon. This is called diversification. If you diversify your finances well while investing it is...
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16th August 2008
A Growth Mutual Fund is more risky to be invested upon compared to an ordinary Mutual Fund but the premium or dividend that is derived is much higher then what is obtained from a normal Mutual Fund. Its performance is proportional to the performance of th...
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15th July 2008
The Prime Goal of a Fund Manager is to monitor and manage the securities (in the form of stocks, bonds amongst others) to meet the investment goals and objectives of the customers (investors). The services include financial analysis on the investments, th...
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30th June 2008
Asset Allocation primarily involves categorizing an investment option amongst various asset categories that is offered. It could be in the form of a stock, fund or a share and the option that you choose is thoroughly a self made decision that will decide ...
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27th May 2008
A Growth Fund is basically a mutual fund that is made or compiled by a stock of companies in order to yield better dividends. They do re-present the potential for superior growths but then it is a bit risky. On a whole investors prefer to invest in a grow...
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