Gear up your tax planning with mutual funds. Smart tax

Gear up your tax planning with mutual funds. Smart tax saving tips and recommendations – 2008
Tax planning has changed radically over a period of time. Since its time for filling income tax returns for 2007-2008 as the end date (31st march 08) is approaching. As a tax payer you need to understand the best way [...]

Saving money through investing in mutual funds

A good mutual fund company will know how to use the investor’s money to buy and sell large amounts of securities. The aim of mutual fund companies is to increase their profit margins. The individual who invests on mutual funds also has a similar objective of squeezing maximum profit out of it. It’s a win-win [...]

Mutual funds: protect yourself with segregated funds

Segregated funds were initially developed by the insurance industry to compete against mutual funds. Today, many mutual fund companies are in partnership with insurance companies to offer segregated funds to investors. Segregated funds offer some unique benefits not available to mutual fund investors.
Segregated funds offer the following major benefits that are not offered by the [...]

Saving money through investing in mutual funds

A good mutual fund company will know how to use the investor’s money to buy and sell large amounts of securities. The aim of mutual fund companies is to increase their profit margins. The individual who invests on mutual funds also has a similar objective of squeezing maximum profit out of it. It’s a win-win [...]

Have You Made A Bad Investment?

If you are concerned about saving money or making money for the future, or both, then you definitely need to consider making an investment in different stocks, mutual funds, and the like to create a well rounded portfolio that will provide you with returns that benefit you and your investment. There are so many benefits [...]

Gear up your tax planning with mutual funds. Smart tax

Gear up your tax planning with mutual funds. Smart tax saving tips and recommendations – 2008
Tax planning has changed radically over a period of time. Since its time for filling income tax returns for 2007-2008 as the end date (31st march 08) is approaching. As a tax payer you need to understand the best way [...]

How to select a mutual fund

One of the most common ways of selecting a mutual fund is to invest with the crowd in today’s hot funds. Unfortunately, jumping from one winning fund to another is a recipe for disaster. The mutual funds that the crowd follows typically have had a hot recent performance and tend to gather all the new [...]

Hedge funds – establishing a new frontier

It is difficult to provide a general definition of a hedge fund. Initially, hedge funds would sell short the stock market, thus providing a “hedge” against any stock market declines. Today the term is applied more broadly to any type of private investment partnership. There are thousands of different hedge funds globally. Their primary objective [...]