It is prudent to invest in
Equity mutual funds if your time - frame is 15 years.
For
equity mutual funds if you switch after one year of investment there will be no tax impact as the tax rate for LTCG (Long term capital gain) in equity funds is 0 %.
Invest in
Equity mutual funds if your time horizon is atleast 10 years.
(Anytime is good time to start investing in
equity mutual funds if your investment horizon is > 10 years).
Do not invest in
equity mutual funds if your investment time frames is 2 - 3 years.
• It must be noted that a fund qualifies to be
an equity mutual fund if it holds more than 65 % of its portfolio in equity.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, the next chart shows that money flows to
equity mutual funds and exchange traded
funds have rarely,
if ever, been more persistently negative than they have been during the past two years.
If much of the investment into bond
mutual funds that has occurred the last couple of years is for purposes of dampening the volatility of a portfolio — and with the 10 - Year Treasury yield at 1.8 percent it's difficult to argue for a different motivation - then it's important to think through the thesis that bonds will defend a balanced portfolio in an
equity bear market in the same way they have, especially to the extent they have in the last two bear markets.
Does anyone know
if Canadian based
mutual funds (invested in US
equities) are subject to the US withholding tax?
If selecting
equity funds was like running a marathon, selecting debt
mutual funds is akin to climbing Mount Everest.
If you're just starting out investing and trying to decide between individual
equities and
mutual funds — ETFs are the middle ground.
The capital gains in
Equity Linked
Mutual Funds are tax free
if redeemed after 1 year and since ELSS have a lock - in of 3 years (lowest in all tax saving instruments under 80C) the profit from ELSS is tax free upon redemption.
If you would like to invest in
equity oriented
mutual funds then they are subject to investment risks.
If not, suggest you to start with
Equity mutual funds, may be with one Diversified equity fund and a balanced
Equity mutual funds, may be with one Diversified
equity fund and a balanced
equity fund and a balanced
fund.
If you also hold a Canadian
equity mutual fund filled with these same sectors, you may be paying a high fee to the
fund company for little diversification benefit, since you already own most of the same stocks.
What it means is you are going to have to pay considerably more attention this year to a
fund's prospectus and its discussion of hedging policies, especially
if you invest in international and / or emerging market
mutual funds, both
equity and fixed income.
If any
equity mutual fund pay me monthly dividends then I get regular dividend income which is income tax free in India so I utilize this tax free dividend income as my second income source or I make my own stock portfolio with help of this tax free monthly income.
A question that I was recently asked with regards to investing in
equity mutual funds was whether a
fund should be fully invested in
equity at all times or should it be holding cash
if need be?
We selected a guy who suggested that a 14 % return on our investments was quite doable
if we socked away about 80 % of our cash in
equity mutual funds.
If you insist on panicking, start with registered accounts and securities that will include multiple positions, like the ETF above or a global
equity mutual fund.
That would be the case
if you were using a discount brokerage and you owned only one security: a global index
mutual fund or global
equity ETF that, in effect, owned most of the stocks in the world all in one basket: something like the Vanguard FTSE All - World ex-Canada Index ETF (VXC, TSX).
If investments in
equity mutual funds or Stocks are sold within a year, gains will be treated as short term capital gains and taxed at 15 %.
People always say that they lost money in
equities but actually that is not true
if you follow some basics and stick to it and that too in
mutual funds there is no way one can loose money
if investment will be done for long term based on goals.
We can easily set up the
equity portion of a taxable investment account to receive little to no distributions, compared to
if we only used ETFs or
Mutual Funds.
Equity oriented balanced
funds have similar tax treatment as
Equity mutual funds, i.e. Tax free after 1 year and 15 % tax
if redeemed before 1 year of investment.
If you have been a long - term investor for quite some time and now you're looking to redeem your profits, you switch your capital from your
equity mutual fund scheme to a high on AUM liquid scheme from your AMC.
Hence
if you are new to
equity mutual fund investing these
funds may not be your cup of tea.
Dear Srikanth, Stock market is daily making high.New investment in
equity mutual funds has become risky.It is high time
if you rewrite one year old article on balanced
mutual funds.Thanking you.
Please keep in mind that
if you invest in the TIAA Large Cap U.S.
Equity Index Portfolio, you will own interests in the TIAA Large Cap U.S.
Equity Index Portfolio; you will not own shares in any of the following
mutual funds.
Please keep in mind that
if you invest in the Harding Loevner Global
Equity Portfolio, you will own interests in the Harding Loevner Global
Equity Portfolio; you will not own shares in any of the following
mutual funds.
Please keep in mind that
if you invest in the TIAA Social Choice
Equity Portfolio, you will own interests in the TIAA Social Choice
Equity Portfolio; you will not own shares in any of the following
mutual funds.
Dear Rajesh,
If your investment horizon is 2 - 3 years, do not invest in
equity mutual funds.
Dear Pankaj,
If your investment horizon is less than 1 year, do not invest in
equity mutual funds.
Also, the long term capital gains on
Equity mutual funds (
if held for more than 1 year) are exempted from income tax.
Dear Anand,
If you do not want to take any risk then
equity mutual funds are ruled out.
If the broad US
equity markets fell 25 % over a 12 month period and my portfolio fell by 20 %, would I act like a typical
mutual fund manager and point out that I beat the market by 5 % or would I be upset that my portfolio value fell by 20 %?
So
if I invest any good Diversified
Equity Mutual Funds like ICICI Prudential Dynamic for SIP of Rs 2000.
If your holding in an Equity mutual fund scheme is less than 1 year i.e. if you withdraw your mutual fund units before 1 year, after making a profit, then the profit will be considered as Short Term Capital Gai
If your holding in an
Equity mutual fund scheme is less than 1 year i.e.
if you withdraw your mutual fund units before 1 year, after making a profit, then the profit will be considered as Short Term Capital Gai
if you withdraw your
mutual fund units before 1 year, after making a profit, then the profit will be considered as Short Term Capital Gain.
Dear Nirmal,
If your investment horizon is 5 years, and expecting high returns, suggest you not to invest in
equity mutual funds.
Dear TB,
If you want to redeem
equity mutual fund units in 1.5 years, suggest you not to invest in Equity mutual
equity mutual fund units in 1.5 years, suggest you not to invest in
Equity mutual
Equity mutual funds.
So,
if you have
equity in your home or
if you've got
mutual funds or savings,
if you got RESPs for your kids, all of these things can be seized to be turned into cash in a bankruptcy.
Mutual funds, whether they invest in
equities (stocks), or fixed - income (bonds), allow reinvestment of both dividends and capital gains
if they are open - ended, enabling compounding.
Rule 23:
If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in
equity mutual funds.
If your time - horizon is > 10 years, kindly consider investing in
Equity mutual funds.
For example,
If I have 30 lakhs lumpsum money to invest, I have 2 options: One is open SIP in say large cap, midcap, diversified
mutual funds and invest 50,000 monthly thru SIP... this will take me 5 years to invest my 30 lakhs into
Equity mutual funds..
If you need money in 2 years, kindly do not invest in
equity mutual funds.
Dear subramanian,
If your investment horizon is > 10 years, opt for
equity mutual funds instead of corporate FDs.
But
if you have not made any
equity related investments towards your kid's education goal then you may invest a higher portion of your investible surplus in
mutual funds instead of PPF / SSA.
Well,
if you're the kind of person who doesn't need to be * forced * to save, then banking the money in a
mutual fund will provide better returns and is much more liquid than the
equity in a home.
Small caps are risky,
if not the riskiest, among
equity mutual funds.