Mutual Funds

Mutual Funds refer to funds which collect money from investors and put these money in stocks, bonds and other securities to gain financial profit. Persons whose money is used by the Mutual Fund Manager to buy stocks, bonds and other securities, get a percentage of the Profit earned by the mutual fund in return of their Investments. In this way, mutual funds offer benefits to the both parties.

The mutual fund organization earns profit by using people's money for investment and the persons who invest in mutual fund acquire financial Profit without going into intensive analysis and research on bonds and stocks. The work of stock and bond Market Analysis, Market Research and Market Speculation is done by the mutual fund managers.

The people who invest in Mutual Funds are generally exposed to much lower Risk compared to those who directly invest in bonds and stocks. Mutual Fund Investment involves lower Risk as the investment is diversified in to different bonds and stocks. So, if at any time Market Value of one particular bond or value of the stocks of any particular company drops, then the loss incurred by the mutual fund can be offset by the Market Gain of any other bond or stocks.



There are different types of Mutual Funds available in the market, which are Equity Funds, Exchange Traded Funds, Open End Funds, Money Market Funds, Bond Funds and Hedge Funds.