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Different investment avenues are available to investors. Mutual funds also offer good investment opportunities to the investors. Like all investments, Mutual Funds also carry certain risks. The investors should compare the risks and expected yields after adjustment of tax on various instruments while taking Mutual Fund investment decisions. The investors may seek advice from experts and consultants including agents and distributors of mutual funds schemes while making investment decisions.

Mutual Funds are portfolio of stock market shares and other financial instruments built with funds collected from (usually) small investors whose primary concern is security of investment. These funds are run by government trusts, banks, and now private financial institutions as well. These funds can be OPEN – FUNDED or CLOSED – ENDED.

There are different kinds of mutual funds to cater to varied investment objectives: Growth Funds, Income Funds, Balanced Funds, and Liquid Assets Funds, also known as Money Market Funds.

What is known in the United States and India as mutual funds is called a Unit Trust in Britain .

This site is an attempt to make aware Basics of Mutual Funds from an Invester Point of View. The Information provided here is for learning purpose only

 

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A - Active Share, Amortization, Application-Money Asset Coverage Asset Financing, Auction Market, Auctioning of an Issue, Automated Screen Trading (AST), Average, Averaging, Bear Cycle, Book Profit, Booking Profit, Broker, Book Value, BSE Sensitive Index or SENSEX, Bullion, Buy and Hold Strategy, Call Money, Capital Asset, , Capital Market, Cash Cow, CD or Cum – Dividend, Certificate of Deposit, Certified Cheque, Chinese Wall, Circuit Breaker, Clearing, Clone Fund, , Collection Ratio, Commodities Market, Commodity, Compound Growth Rate, , Correction, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cover, Covered Call, Creeping Acquisition, CRISIL, Cum-Dividend or CD, Crossing, Cum-Rights or CR, Cumulative Preference Shares, Cyclical Shares - Daily Margin, Dawn Raid, Debentures, Defensive Investment, Defensive Stock, Delisting, Deflation, Delivery Order, Delivery Price, Dematerialization of Scripts, Depreciation, Derivative, Discounted Debentures, Discounting, Dividend Cover, Dividend Play, Dividend Rollover Plan, Dow Theory, Depository Receipt, Efficient Market Hypothesis, Eligible Securities, ELSS, Employee Buyout, Employee Participation, Employee Share – Ownership Plan, Equity Shareholders, Eurodollar, FIFO or First In First Out, FII, Fill or Kill Order, Fixed Income Investments, Floating Stock, Floor Broker, Floor Trader, FForward Dealing / Trading, Forward Delivery, Forward Shares, Forward Integration, Free Lunch Theorem, Free Market Economy, Front – End Load, Front – Running, Frozen Assets, Fully Diluted Earnings Per Share, Fully Paid Share Capital, Fundamental Analysis, Futures, Futures Contract, Futures Market Glamour Shares, Godfather Offer, Going Long, Going Private, Going Public, Going Short, Gold Certificates, Golden Handcuffs, Golden Handshake, Golden Share, Good Delivery, Good Faith Deposit, Graham and Dodd Strategy of Investment, Great Crash, Gross, Gross National Product (GNP), Growth Shares, Gun Jumping, Glamour Issue.Havala or Hawala (also, Making Up Price, Head and Shoulders, Hedging Against Inflation,Inefficient Market, Insider, Insider Trading, Insolvency, Institutional Investor, Intangible Assets, Interbank Market, Interest Rate Risk, International Finance Corporation, International Monetary Fund, Inventory, Inventory Turnover, Inverted Yield Curve, Investment Analyst, Investment Club, Investment Company, Investment Company Shares (Close – Ended), Investment Company Shares (Open – Ended), Investment Horizon, Investment Letter, Investment Trust, Investor Protection, IPO, Irredeemable Debentures, Issue Price.

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