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5 Tips to make a mindful choice of Mutual Funds

At certain point in time, we all look for better ways to invest our money and get good returns. There’s a plan in our head regarding our financial goals and also have a certain period in which we want to invest our funds and see them grow. Mutual Funds is one good option for parking your money, but if you thought that just plotting money in funds that are performing best, without putting in your head on how it all works can certainly be a dicey game when considering the fund’s performance. Hence, it is important to have an investment strategy. Below are a few points that can help you making a mindful choice when you invest in mutual fund Schemes:

  • Diversification
    In a market with changing trends, it won’t be right to put all your eggs in the same basket. Therefore, one must choose amongst the different kinds of mutual fund Schemes, whether to go for open ended or closed ended, chose the sector for your investments, see if your want to invest in tax saving mutual fund Scheme, etc.
  • Know what’s the best time to buy and sell
    Often when the market is seeing a low time, people panic and try to pull out from their investments. Rather low times are the times to invest more to get the rupee cost averaging; hence one must analyze and invest in mutual fund Scheme, which have a prospect of growth.
  • Gauge the performance and market
    In order to make your funds grow, you must keep a close watch on performance of mutual funds; NAV is one other way of knowing the performance of several funds.
  • Know your financial goals and limits
    When you invest in mutual funds, you must be sure of your limits, the kind of fund you want to go for, how much of funds do you want to pool in and what are your financial expectations from your investments.
  • Consistence & regular management
    Investments in mutual funds require being regular and consistence. Also, Asset Management Companies may offer an array of services, right from tracking and downloading NAV ​, investing online, getting SMS alerts, downloading application forms, fact sheets, trade data etc.

So, when you think to invest in Mutual Funds, keeps the above tips in mind, especially if you are a first time investor or if your last experience of investing in mutual funds​ was not a smooth one.

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