What Is Mutual Fund?

Shakti Singh Dulawat — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:35:00 +0000

Are you aiming to have a better, money-free financially stable future? Well, you must start making such a dream a reality by reading and enriching yourself with the following topics: mutual fund, SIP and NAV definition.

Definition of mutual fund: Let’s begin then with this first basic question: What is mutual fund? Mutual funds are investment companies that pool money from investors at large and offer to sell and buy back its shares on a continuous basis and use the capital thus raised to invest in securities of different companies. In this you amount is invested in different companies according to percentage ratio.

In addition, mutual funds can be either or both of open ended and closed ended investment companies depending on their fund management pattern.

An open-end fund offers to sell its shares (units) continuously to investors either in retail or in bulk without a limit on the number as opposed to a closed-end fund. Open end fund have no limit in number of shares.
Closed end funds have limited number of shares.

Advantages of mutual fund:

These are the advantages that you must bear in mind in view of mutual fund:

Lowest per unit investment in almost all the cases start for Rs 10 in INDIA
Your investment will be managed by professional money managers so you need not worry about your money.
You can merge from one fund to another fund.
Easy earning opportunity in share market.
For long term they will provide good result.
Your investment will be diversified

Disadvantage of mutual fund:

These are the advantages that you must bear in mind in view of mutual fund:

Simply one line show you that mutual fund investment is depend on market risk please read offer document carefully before investing means market down mutual fund down.
Mutual funds are like many other investments without a guaranteed return so it is not necessary you will get profit from mutual fund.

What is SIP? Let us now define what is SIP.

SIP simply means Systematic Investment Plan. It is not a type of mutual fund. It is a method of investing in a mutual fund. SIP allows the investor to buy units on a given date every month. The investor decides the amount and also the mutual fund scheme. I want to say that save 1 rupee daily then after 30 days you will got 30 rupee. For saving money we need to follow some method and SIP is one of them.

Let us now take in to account the relationship between mutual fund and SIP

There are two ways in which you can invest in a mutual fund.

In my previous article I show the difference between mutual fund and post office fix deposit.

1.) A one-time outright payment

If you invest directly in the fund, you just hand over the cheque and you get your fund units depending on the value of the units on that particular day. Suppose you invest Rs 10000 and NAV on that date is Rs 10.
So you will get 1000 units (Rs 10000 / 10).
If after one year fund NAV is 11 then you value is 11,000 (Rs 11*1000)

2.) Monthly, daily, quarterly or yearly investments

This is referred to as a SIP. That means that, every month, you need to invest some money suppose you are investing Rs 1000 per month for three month and at the end of three month your total invests will 3000.
Let’s say the NAV on the day you invest in the first month is Rs 10, you will get 100 units (Rs. 1000/10).
The next month, the NAV is Rs 20. You will get 50 units (Rs. 1000/20).
The following month, the NAV is Rs 40. You will get 25 units (Rs. 1000/40).
Now total amount invested 3000, total unit you got 100+50+25=175 unit.
Current NAV of mutual fund is 41 then your current value is 175*41= Rs 7175.

Definition of NAV: What is NAV?

NAV: NAV is net asset value of a mutual fund. NAV, is the sum total of the market value of all the shares held in the portfolio including cash, less the liabilities, divided by the total number of units outstanding. Thus, NAV of a mutual fund unit is nothing but the ‘book value.’

Your fund value= Total Unit * current fund NAV

Above are just figure performances, actual value depend on mutual fund and its market performance.

This are some best fund in current market.

Note: Liquid funds, cash funds and floating rate debt funds do not offer an SIP. These are funds that invest in very short-term fixed-return investments. Floating rate debt funds invest in fixed return investments where the interest rate moves in tandem with interest rates in the economy (just like a floating rate home loan).

All types of equity funds (funds that invest in the shares of companies), debt funds (funds that invest in fixed-return investments) and balanced funds (funds that invest in both) offer a SIP.

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In conclusion, gaining more than enough information through our friends and experts in the field of investing such as mutual funds, will definitely make a great difference in your business investing pursuit. It is very much advisable that as you become more knowledgeable with mutual funds and other details of investing then it is most likely that you can now be ready to risk your hard earned money. Investing is a big risk but once you get to know the basics of which, everything will fall in its proper place and business perspective. Happy investing and good luck!

What is Net Asset Value (NAV)

Shakti Singh Dulawat — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:31:00 +0000

Here is another important financial concept that will surely improve and enrich your understanding regarding financial knowledge and matters. This is what we call NAV or Net Asset Value.

Definition of NAV: Net Asset Value (NAV) is simply defined as the actual value of one unit of a given scheme on any given business day. The NAV reflects clearly the liquidation value of the fund’s investments on that particular day after accounting for all expenses. Moreover, it is calculated by deducting all liabilities (except unit capital) of the fund from the realizable value of all assets and dividing it by number of units outstanding. In short NAV is the actual investment that an investor has after deducting all liabilities and credits or expenses.

The mutual fund company adds up all the stocks they own in the mutual fund, subtracts their expenses, and divides by the number of shares outstanding. This is the NAV. In other simple terms this is what we call profit sharing. Many sites on the web show expense ratios for mutual funds. The lower the expenses, the more of your money you get to keep! Meaning to say, a lot of money will be received by you once you have lesser expenditures.

Furthermore, asset management (mutual Fund) companies allocate units against the money invested by us. NAV is the value of 1 unit allocated. The NAV increases when the shares (stocks) held by the Asset Management Company appreciate and vice-versa.

NAV is calculated on daily basis and can be described as the (total value of the assets under the scheme minus the expenses) divided by the total number of units allocated under the scheme. This makes NAV therefore a dynamic reality in the financial investing area.

NAV= all value of asset or stocks of a portfolio

For example, if a fund has assets of 50 Carore Rs and liabilities of Carore Rs, it would have a NAV of 40 Carore Rs.This number is important to investors, because it is from NAV that the price per unit of a fund is calculated.

By dividing the NAV of a fund by the number of outstanding units, you are left with the price per unit. In our example, if the fund had 4 Carore shares outstanding, the price-per-share value would be 40 Carore divided by 4 Carore which equals 10 Rs.

This pricing system for the trading of shares in a mutual fund differs significantly from that of common stock issued by a company listed on a stock exchange. In this instance, a company issues a finite number of shares through an initial public offering (IPO), and possibly subsequent additional offerings, which then trade in the secondary market.

In this market, stock prices are set by market forces of supply and demand. The pricing system for stocks is based solely on market sentiment.

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In conclusion, it is important to be reminded by experts that the NAV is something that each and every investor looks forward to in view of their monetary investments. This is indeed something that makes the business more exciting. Investors always see to it and hope that they will generate more income from what they have invested. Great indeed is this mode on earning from our money without so much risk such as maintaining its flow in the market. Continue investing in order to gain better NAV!

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