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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

Geojit Credits, a non-banking financial company (NBFC), on Monday announced the launch of Loan Against Mutual Fund (LAMF)

Updated On: 03 Apr 2023 | 6:46 PM IST

Amfi has said industry is being vilified baselessly as segment has lowest customer complaints in entire financial market space, as it follows most transparent and disclosure-based reporting

Updated On: 13 Mar 2023 | 12:10 AM IST

The scheme will target aggregate dividend yield that is at least 50 per cent higher than the Nifty 50 index

Updated On: 20 Feb 2023 | 9:07 PM IST

The matter pertains to inter-scheme transfers of L&T Mutual Fund for the period between April 01, 2017 and June 30, 2018

Updated On: 17 Feb 2023 | 9:17 PM IST

24,000 new MF distributors join industry in 2022--that's 42% higher than 2021

Updated On: 30 Jan 2023 | 7:25 PM IST

Just 4% growth in registration of direct plan SIPs last year after 115% growth in 2021

Updated On: 26 Jan 2023 | 11:07 PM IST

The new fund offering will close on January 18

Updated On: 10 Jan 2023 | 8:36 PM IST

Don't exit growth-style funds as they may benefit next from a shift in investor preference

Updated On: 06 Jan 2023 | 6:17 PM IST

Merger likely to make LIC MF the 22nd largest fund house by AUM

Updated On: 31 Dec 2022 | 7:15 PM IST

In November, nearly half the dynamic bond fund (DBF) schemes raised the allocation to medium-to-longer-duration papers

Updated On: 28 Dec 2022 | 11:36 PM IST

Earnings could be challenging as global economic growth is weakening, says Sailesh Raj Bhan

Updated On: 27 Dec 2022 | 6:45 PM IST

Business Standard's Puneet Wadhwa caught up with Neil Parikh, CEO of PPFAS Mutual Fund on his views on Sebi's order on capped exposure to foreign stocks and more

Updated On: 27 Dec 2022 | 1:21 PM IST

Study to provide inputs for future policy formulations, says market regulator

Updated On: 23 Dec 2022 | 8:32 PM IST

With this, monthly SIP inflows can reach Rs 50,000 cr, says Sebi whole-time member

Updated On: 22 Dec 2022 | 7:59 PM IST

They can charge some money but commission won't be allowed: Chairman Madhavi Puri Buch

Updated On: 20 Dec 2022 | 11:06 PM IST

Fund houses came out with more schemes in 2022 than in 2021 but only a few caught the investors' fancy

Updated On: 20 Dec 2022 | 11:04 PM IST

45% respondents raised their investments as pandemic forced a rethink on financial health, 23% slashed it due to pay cuts, fall in risk-taking capacity, uncertainty in business and job loss

Updated On: 12 Dec 2022 | 11:36 PM IST

Sells 22.84 million shares, or 5.08% stake, at Rs 456.4 apiece; 30 institutional investors among buyers

Updated On: 02 Dec 2022 | 11:24 PM IST

Lock into attractive yields being offered by target maturity funds of three-five-year maturity

Updated On: 01 Dec 2022 | 10:43 PM IST

Having spent nearly two decades at the country's largest bourse, Ramamurthy is among the early architects of NSE and understands all the cogs of the exchange wheel like only a few others

Updated On: 30 Nov 2022 | 10:10 PM IST