LIC Mutual Fund?
Posted on June 14th, 2010 in Mututal Fund
Mutual Funds – The Logic behind Investing
- A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors and invests typically in investment securities (stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, other mutual funds, other securities, and/or commodities such as precious metals).
- In accordance with the fund’s investment objective the mutual fund will have a fund manager that trades (buys and sells) the fund’s investments.
- The mutual funds have very fluid stocks are and are used for buying or redeeming and/or selling shares at a net asset value.
- Shares of several companies and receive dividends in lieu of them and the earnings are distributed among the share holders which is posses by Mutual funds.
Mutual Funds Work
- Depending on their fund management pattern Mutual funds can be either or both of open ended and closed ended investment companies.
- Without a limit on the number as opposed to a closed-end fund an open-end fund offers to sell its shares (units) continuously to investors either in retail or in bulk.
- Closed end funds have limited number of shares.
- Mutual funds have diversified investments spread in calculated proportions amongst securities of various economic sectors.
- Mutual funds get their earnings in two ways.
- First is the most organic way, which is the dividend they get on the securities they hold.
- Second is by the redemption of their shares by investors will be at a discount to the current NAVs (net asset values).
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December 10th, 2010
Mutual funds, however, are comparatively safer. But with so many to choose from, this too becomes a complicated task. There are thousands of funds available in the market today, how would you pick best mutual funds for your portfolio? That’s exactly what we discuss in this article.
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