Understanding Systematic Transfer Plans (STP)
How many of you are familiar with STPs? I’m sure not many of you. Now with so many investment options available, people are confused in what to invest, where to invest and how to invest. Some people do not know what are the investment options available, and how to make the best use of them. You may have different goals and dreams in life, but to fund those goals is a...
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...
Know How to Track the Performance of Your Mutual Funds
Investing in the mutual funds is one of the best options to gain the maximum returns for the capital invested in the market. It is a better way to make money. Mutual fund are for long term investment goals. In order to gain the benefits, the mutual funds investments have to be reviewed and tracked regularly. The performance of the mutual fund has to be seen in the right way. Considering...
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...
Understanding Arbitrage Funds
Before jumping directly to understand what Arbitrage Funds are, let us first understand the basic meaning of “Arbitrage”. In simple words, arbitrage means buying in one market and selling in another market. For example, I buy a T-shirt in one market for say Rs. 700 and I sell that T-Shirt in another market where the demand is more at a price of Rs. 850. I have instantly made a profit of...
Equity Linked Saving Scheme For Saving Tax
The finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced that the deadline for investing in tax-saving instruments for the financial year 2019-20 has been pushed to 30th june 2020. The usual deadline was March 31. This move was taken as the entire country is in lockdown and it has been difficult to make last-minute tax investments. If you have already invested for FY...
Why To Choose MF’s Over Pension Plans?
Retirement planning is absolutely necessary so that you have a corpus at hand when you retire and need funds to meet your lifestyle expenses. As you plan for your retirement you have to factor in many questions like, how will you streamline your debt? Or how will you arrange for your medical bills? Or probably other aspects like estate planning. As individuals, we want a comfortable and...
Debunking The Eight Common Myths About Investing In SIPs
After our last blog on Importance of continuing SIPs amid Covid 19, we have received some queries on SIPs and most of the concerns were actually turned out to be myths. So we have decided to debunk those myths in today’s post. After our last blog on Importance of continuing SIPs amid Covid 19, we have received some queries on SIPs and most of the concerns were actually turned out to be...