Types Of Mutual Funds.

There are many types of mutual funds available in the market but only four can be found in the Philippines, and these are: stock or equity funds, bond funds, balanced funds, and money market funds. * Stock or Equity Funds. Stock or Equity Funds pose...

Pension Plans With Mutual Fund Investments.

Pension Plan helps the average investor to accumulate wealth over the period in order to meet his/her expenses after retirement. Usually it is the insurance companies that draw customers with the array of pension plans that they provide, but the les...

Elss Secret Of Tax Saving With Mutual Fund Investments.

As the name suggests ELSS (equity linked savings scheme), invests primarily in equity shares of companies. As per financial regulations, the scheme Fund manager has to invest 80% of the total amount in the equity shares and the remaining 20% per cen...

Mutual Funds For Everyone

The stock market is a wild and crazy world to be in, and is definitely not for a place for amateurs to be playing about. In this jungle, investing in the wrong places can get you beaten, eaten, and spat out like gum. But what if you can get a profes...

Mutual Funds - Capitalizing On Real Estate Potential

The real estate stocks are difficult for an average retail investor to read. Wild swings have been the order of the day. However, mutual funds that have 3-4 per cent investments in real estate stocks allow a small investor to benefit from the surges...

Carbon Emission Trading, The Basics Explained

The Kyoto Protocol is a UN-led international agreement reached in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan to address the problems of climate change and the reduction greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol went into force on February 2005. Signatory countries are...

Tax Planning With Mutual Fund Investments

By nature Mutual Funds are not tax saving instruments but some mutual fund investment products also offers tax saving plans. Generally income that is earned from Mutual funds is categorized under two heads dividend and capital gains. Given that the...

Should You Choose Stocks Or Mutual Funds?

If you are a first time investor, all these financial and investing terms can be intimidating. If you don't understand what they mean, you can't understand what you are getting into. Maybe you've done a little research and reading and you've settled...

Understanding Bonds

There are certain things you must understand about bonds before you start investing in them. Not understanding these things may cause you to purchase the wrong bonds, at the wrong maturity date. The three most important things that must be considere...

Mutual Funds: The Need To Know Basics

Almost everybody has the ambition to get rich without lifting a finger that's because there's plenty of us out there that are driven by laziness and greed. We like to find ways for having our cash work for us, or apply the Law of Leverage, which is...