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7 Mutual Funds Do’s and Don’ts

Life (including investments) is not about not making mistakes, but to learn from them. A wise person quickly learns from his mistakes - and those of the others too. Given below are 7 do’s and don’ts which we can follow to avoid mistakes commonly made by investors in MFs. Rule 1 : Don’t look at NAV I would be repeating this maybe a 100th time – Rs 10 NAV does NOT mean that the fund is cheaper than an existing fund with say Rs 200 NAV. Therefore, never look at NAV when you are making an investment decision. Rule 2 : Do systematic investment The market valuations today, despite the recent correction, are still not cheap. Also, there is risk of a possible slowdown in the economy. Therefore, averaging one’s investment by doing SIP is a safer route to investing in equity markets. Lump-sum investment is advisable only at very low market PE levels, when the risk of markets going down further is low and the probability of appreciation high. Of course, this does not apply so much to debt funds

Franklin India Prima Fund declares 60% dividend

Franklin Templeton Investments (India), has announced its eleventh dividend of 60% (i.e. Rs 6 per unit on Face Value of Rs.10), in its open end diversified equity fund - Franklin India Prima Fund. All investors registered in the Dividend Plan as on June 18, 2008 will receive this dividend. (Pursuant to payment of dividend, the NAV of the fund would fall to the extent of payout). The record date for the dividend is June 18, 2008 and any purchases on or before this date will be eligible for the dividend. There will be a one-day book closure for the growth and dividend plans on June 19, 2008 and will reopen for fresh purchases and redemptions on June 20, 2008. Under the dividend reinvestment plan, the dividend declared will be reinvested at the NAV of June 20, 2008 and unit holders will be allotted additional units for the dividend amount. Franklin India Prima Fund was launched in December 1993, and currently manages over Rs.1019 crores of assets for over 143,500 investors. The scheme see

Birla Sun Life MF launches Century SIP

Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund has launched Century SIP, a unique systematic investment plan offering an opportunity to create wealth with as little as Rs 1000 per month plus a life insurance cover of up to 100 times the monthly installment. This plan comes along with free term insurance for an individual up to 55 years of age. The life insurance cover comes at no extra cost to the investor. The cover is hassle free. The investor need not go thru any medial test to avail of the life cover. All an investor needs to do is enroll for CSIP & sign a “Declaration of Good Health”. In case of unfortunate demise of investor the insurance claim will be directly paid to the nominee by the insurance company (Birla Sun Life Insurance Company). Announcing the launch of Century SIP, Anil Kumar, CEO, Birla Sun Life MF said, “This offering touches all aspects of an investor’s financial planning needs. We wish to encourage the investment habit among investors by providing them life insurance cover.” Ins

IDFC Buys StanChart India’s MF Biz For Rs 830 Cr

Finally, Infrastructure Development Finance Co Ltd (IDFC) has been announced as the winner for adopting Standard Chartered’s mutual fund business in India. In an all-cash deal, IDFC will pay Rs 830 crore ($205 million) to get hold of the asset management business of Standard Chartered. This amounts to 5.67% of the total assets under management of Rs 14,141 crore of StanChart’s AMC at the end of February 2008. The deal follows the RBI’s rejection of Swiss banking major UBS AG’s last year’s bid to purchase StanChart’s MF business for around Rs 516 crore, which was 4% of the total AUM of StanChart MF at that time. The UBS deal was terminated in January 2008. Jaspal Bindra, chief executive officer, Asia, Standard Chartered said, “IDFC is a well respected financial services company and we are delighted to have reached an agreement with them for the sale of this business. Standard Chartered will remain a distributor of asset management products in India. India is a key market and delivered

Indian Mutual Funds

Today Indian economy is showing the growth graph upwards with many investment opportunities for a normal person. One of this kind of investment is investing in Mutual Funds. Indian stock market has reached to a new height giving the investors a good option to make money. Investing in mutual fund gives one a vast options to select different mutual funds from different companies and fields. There are many fields to select from, for example one can select mutual funds from different sectors such as tax saver fund, opportunity fund, log term benefit term, real estate fund, etc. But investor should give time to invested funds, mutual fund investment is not like stocks where you buy and sell the stocks immediately, in case of mutual funds you need to give some time so that when you sell the fund you get a good returns.