Showing posts with label mutual fund advisors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mutual fund advisors. Show all posts

Monday, 14 April 2014

BFSI sector is proving to be a booming domain in India



The Banking Finance Service and Insurance is gearing up to be a household name in India, with the growth of economy in the past decade or so and with the advancement of Financial Advisors banking in the present time is becoming a flexible task.

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  With several financial companies cropping with the promise of benifitting the common mass, it provides the investors to have a thorough field research and select the best in the market.

For the advisors the tele-callers of the above organization do call up and educate them about the benefit of getting themselves registered with the so called organizations. While on call the advisors do provide their complete details like their present phone number the correct educational qualification along with license no and so on.

After quality check and free registration advisors can opt for annual subscription plan which allows them to reach out to more and more and more customers. After completion of all formalities the advisors are given a user id which enables to change their profile accordingly along with some modification in their above profile.

For the investors it is not mandatory to choose advisors which the firm suggests, they can choose by judging the experience, rating, distance and so on. By sharing contact details the firms do help the investors to get connected to their selected advisors through SMS and e-mails.


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Mutual funds and MutualFunds Advisors are playing key roles in order to reach the common man, previously people had a conception that mutual funds do deal with share market which can run in losses at times, but now the modus-operandi for mutual funds is to open fixed deposits for their customers.

Mutual fund investments are long term investments which serve as a weapon of betterment for the future.

Along with funds Tax Consultants do play an important role in the financial market as they are the one who help a investor about his/her investment and investment plans, along with the area of investment which the particular person is willing to invest.

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

5-Tips for Mutual Fund Investment



There is no age restriction for savings. You can start this at any age but expert financial planners will suggest that earlier is better.  Starting early will help you enjoy the maximum benefits from all the drive engines that grow your fund. At one hand, you’ll give the maximum time span to your investment to take the benefit of compounding. On the other hand you have the chance to review and revise your portfolio, yet giving your corpus enough time to grow. Nevertheless, there is nothing actually to stop you from reviewing and learning new investment avenues. If you have not included mutual funds in your investment plan for the shortcomings in knowledge, here we give you 5 essential tips to help:

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Get Started
First of all, you decide your investment short-term and long-term goals.  It may range from your retirement planning, your child’s education or marriage to things you would like to accomplish in next 2-5 years. You will have to decide on your fund allocation for achieving each of the investment objectives before you get on to the next step.
Choose the Best Funds
Here you select the fund to meet your purposes. You have to choose from a broad range of mutual funds. The best is to start with balanced funds.
Know Your Risk Appetite
There are funds which give more exposure to equity than on debt. These can give you higher returns but the associated risk is higher. On the other hand, there are funds which channelize your investment more into debt than in equity avenues. These are safer but the returns are low. To select a fund you should do some research on its performance and background. You should also check important aspects of the mutual fund like entry and exit fees, expenses and fund manager’s credentials. Select funds for your portfolio based on your risk appetite.
Build Your Portfolio
Here you put in all your strategies and tools to gain the maximum result. The thumb rule for building the portfolio is to diversify the investment. You should maintain a balance in putting your money in equity and debt through mutual fund instruments.
Analyze the Performance
It might sometime be fooling if you go by the past reputation of a mutual fund. Look more closely at the performance of the fund in last 5 years and take advice from professional financial advisors before you decide on investing in mutual funds.

Thursday, 26 December 2013

Role of Mutual Fund Investment Policies in Kolkata



The Mutual Fund organizations are taking active part in financial inclusiveness and they are promoting investment habit among the investors. Presently there are 37 Asset Management Companies (AMCs) that comprise the mutual fund industry and manage assets over Rs 8075 billion. It is a type of professionally managed collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to purchase securities.
Before proceeding further on investing, we need to understand that there is a difference between mutual fund agents and advisors

Mutual Fund Agent facilitates the mutual fund transaction and provides you after sale/investment services. On the other hand, Mutual Fund Advisor provides advice on investments in mutual fund. He studies your requirement and thus educates on mutual fund, and recommends which mutual fund fits into your requirement, and finally reviews mutual fund investments periodically.  Certain fees need to be paid for hiring an advisor.
A mutual fund agent is expected to provide some services and bring convenience to an investor. 

Mutual fund Investment is a great alternative for investors to invest in the debt and the equity market. It’s suitable for investors who do not have the time or the expertise to track individually the market or trade. It allows investors to diversify their portfolio investment in equity, debt and other instruments. It also significantly mitigates the risk involved in market trading and thus the experts manage investments on behalf of investors. Mutual funds play a vital ROLE in promoting a healthy capital market by providing active support to secondary market and increase liquidity of capital market and finally bring stability in financial market. 

Certain roles of mutual fund can be explained with the help of following points:-

  •  Mobilizes Savings:-Mutual funds play an important role in mobilizing savings of millions of investors throughout the country.
  • InstrumentOf Investing Money:-Now-a-days bank rates have become very low thus keeping large amount of money in bank does not give higher returns. Clients can always invest in stock market but a common investor is not well informed about the complexities involved in stock market movements so mutual funds play an important role in helping common public to get higher returns.
  •   Protection To Small Investors:-A small investor is not safe in share market. There is no such risk in mutual industry. Mutual funds help to reduce the risk of investing in stocks by spreading or diversifying the investments.
  • Tax Benefit :-Investors in mutual funds enjoy tax benefits since the dividend received by investors is tax free. Tax is exempted on the income received on units of mutual funds and UTI
  • Diversification:-Investment in mutual funds enables investors to spread out and minimize the risks till certain extent. The diversification helps to reduce risk because all the stocks do not decline at same time. Thus investors are very much assured of average income and this is not possible in other sources.
  • Multi - Purpose Service:-Mutual funds introduce variety of innovative schemes containing various benefits since it meet the needs of different types of investors in terms of dividend distribution, investment, liquidity etc.
  • Boost to Capital Market:-Mutual fund has become a capital market intermediary and thus it bridges the gap between retail investors and capital market. The steady growth of mutual fund industry leads to increased vibrancy of capital market.
  • Arrival of Foreign Capital:-. Indian Mutual Fund Industries open offshore funds in various foreign countries and secure safe investment avenues abroad to domestic savings so Mutual funds attract foreign capital.
  •  Savings For Retirement And Education:-Various schemes of funds with their tax benefits can help the households to save for the retirements and education of their children.


In today’s world of Investment, uncertainty and riskiness is everywhere and anywhere. Thus greatest contributor to the riskiness in investment is when there is a belief that there is no risk.

People know about these uncertainties, it is not only about unawareness of investors but today they are ready to accept such higher risk & higher uncertainty. They feel that they have to take such risk.
Risk aversion is the crucial parameter in such sane markets. 
Investors should always prefer safety to uncertainty, all other things being constant.
Top Investments done in India: From: onemint.com
S.No.
Investment
Tenure
Expected Return

1
Bank Fixed Deposits
Few days to several years
Usually over 8%

2
Tax Saver Bank Fixed Deposits
5 years or more
 Usually over 8.5%

3
Public Provident Fund
15 years
8.80%

4
NSC IX Issue
10 years
8.90%

5
Senior Citizens Savings Scheme
5 years
9.30%

6
Monthly Income Scheme
5 years
8.50%

7
Tax Free Bonds
They trade on the stock exchange so you can buy or sell any time.
Usually upwards of 8%

8
Fixed Maturity Plans
1 year or more
Not fixed

9
Debt mutual funds
Varying maturities and can be bought and sold anytime.
Not fixed.

10
 Corporate NCDs
Varying maturities
A Higher than fixed deposits.

11
Savings Account
No Maturity
4 – 7%