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What is Mutual Fund

A mutual fund is a professionally-managed investment scheme, made up of a pool of money collected from many investors to invest in securities like stocks, bonds, money market instruments, and other assets.
 
Mutual funds are operated by professional money managers, who allocate the fund's assets and attempt to produce capital gains or income for the fund's investors.
 
A mutual fund's portfolio is structured and maintained to match the investment objectives stated in its prospectus.
Mutual funds give small or individual investors access to professionally managed portfolios of equities, bonds, and other securities.
 
Each shareholder, therefore, participates proportionally in the gains or losses of the fund. Mutual funds invest in a vast number of securities, and performance is usually tracked as the change in the total market cap of the fund—derived by the aggregating performance of the underlying investments.
 
All the mutual funds are registered with Sebi. They function within the provisions of strict regulation created to protect the interests of the investor.
 
The biggest advantage of investing through a mutual fund is that it gives small investors access to professionally-managed, diversified portfolios of equities, bonds and other securities, which would be quite difficult to create with a small amount of capital.
 

Latest Updates on Mutual Fund

Regulator puts an end to switching of funds by distributors for higher NFO commissions

Updated On: 19 Dec 2024 | 11:04 PM IST

The mutual fund investment tracing and retrieval assistant, or MITRA, platform will help trace inactive and unclaimed folios, thereby preventing potential misuse

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 5:43 PM IST

Most of the MF investments in the three companies (Swiggy, Zomato and NTPC) are likely to have happened in the primary market, with mutual funds being major investors during the IPO anchor allotments

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 11:41 PM IST

Canara Robeco AMC was established in 1993 and was initially known as Canbank Mutual Fund

Updated On: 05 Dec 2024 | 10:41 PM IST

Investors can purchase direct plans directly on MF websites and online investment platforms

Updated On: 04 Dec 2024 | 10:56 PM IST

As per the circular, Enviro Infra Engineers has allotted over 1.31 crore equity shares to 22 funds at Rs 148 apiece, which is also the upper end of the price band

Updated On: 21 Nov 2024 | 7:55 PM IST

The scheme aims to invest in arbitrage opportunities between spot and futures prices of traded equities and within derivatives. If none are available, the Fund Manager may invest in debt and money mar

Updated On: 13 Nov 2024 | 11:31 AM IST

Fund plans to invest 95-100% of its assets in fixed-income instruments that mirror the CRISIL-IBX AAA Financial Services - Sep 2027 Index

Updated On: 08 Nov 2024 | 3:21 PM IST

Last month, fund houses introduced 21 new equity schemes, with another five launches already lined up for November

Updated On: 05 Nov 2024 | 11:55 PM IST

Equity schemes continue to witness net inflows, driven by SIPs

Updated On: 24 Oct 2024 | 11:34 PM IST

The market regulator had issued the notification on the inclusion of MF units under PIT in November 2022, but it is being made effective now after consultation with industry bodies and members

Updated On: 22 Oct 2024 | 8:42 PM IST

Forecasts industry AUM to grow at 18% CAGR between FY24 and FY30

Updated On: 10 Oct 2024 | 12:34 AM IST

ONDC was conceived to boost e-commerce in India and is now diversifying its services to include financial products

Updated On: 09 Oct 2024 | 2:19 PM IST

Scheme will follow passive strategy to leverage the top 30 momentum stocks from the Nifty 200 Total Return Index

Updated On: 25 Sep 2024 | 2:24 PM IST

Diversifying portfolio is essential for economic stability, according to experts

Updated On: 11 Sep 2024 | 5:19 PM IST

It is crucial to regularly monitor your portfolio, as frequently as possible, to stay on top of its performance

Updated On: 09 Sep 2024 | 5:48 PM IST

Turnover share in segment under regulator scrutiny also shows signs of increase since 2018-19

Updated On: 06 Sep 2024 | 12:34 PM IST

HSBC India Export Opportunities Fund has the flexibility to invest in companies that are part of the exports theme across market capitalization - large cap, mid cap and small cap companies

Updated On: 04 Sep 2024 | 5:00 PM IST

The move is aimed at attracting more investors, especially the youth, by making investment processes and advisory simple, accessible and free of charge

Updated On: 28 Aug 2024 | 8:16 PM IST