It’s that time of the year when every salaried class individual starts looking for tax saving alternatives. Mutual Fund ELSS scheme is one of these options and the best one available at that. What is an ELSS? ELSS or...
Category - Selecting a Mutual Fund
Aliya Sayyed-Team MoneyWorks4meWhy chasing top performing funds is a bad idea?
MoneyWorks4me ‘Implied Investor Returns’ show that investor returns are lower than mutual fund returns over long time periods. One would ask how can investor returns be any different than a fund’s returns? There are...
Team-MoneyWorks4meHow to achieve the right diversification in Mutual Funds?
The efficient market hypothesis (EMH) was developed by Eugene Fama who argued that stocks always trade at their fair value, making it impossible for investors to either purchase undervalued stocks or sell stocks for...
Select Equity Mutual Funds which are ‘andar-se-strong’
There are roughly 350 Equity Mutual Funds in the market. Selecting the right ones can be pretty complicated. The current method for selecting a fund based on the highest past returns is popular because it is simple and...
Avoid Mutual Funds with Hidden Costs
Avoid Mutual Funds with Hidden Costs and increase the chances of earning index-beating returns. We all are quite familiar about mutual fund expense ratio and we rightly desire that it reduces as much as possible...
Mutual Fund Expense Ratio: How much is fair?
Worldwide, there is a lot of hue and cry over high expense ratio that investment management firms charge for generating better than market return. Globally, funds are moving out of active strategies to low cost passive...
If not past returns, then how do you select the right Equity Mutual Fund to invest in?
There are roughly 350 Equity Mutual Funds in the market. Selecting the right ones can be pretty complicated. Since we cannot handle complicated stuff, we resort to simpler measures even if they are incorrect and...