Showing posts with label balanced fund. Show all posts
Showing posts with label balanced fund. Show all posts

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Why Mutual Funds?


As a new investor, investing in the mutual fund is the easiest and least stressful way to invest in the market, relying the investing in the capable hands of financial experts.

Among the benefits of mutual funds are:
1. It is so diversified. There is a specific allocation of the kind of investment entered to, in each type of funds. For example in Stock or Equity Fund, there is a mandate that just 10% shall be allocated for each industry, like for the 10% in banks, the Fund will buy blue chip companies like Banco de Oro, BPI , etc.
2. It is managed by a professional money manager who constantly monitors the stocks or bonds in the fund, so you can rest assured that it is on good hands. This is the manager's primary job so he has a lot of time in the research and in the selection of what investments to buy or sell, compared if you or the individual investor does the managing himself.
3. It is so liquid. If you want to redeem your shares, you will have the money in

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Types of Mutual Funds


In the US, there are 10,000 kinds of mutual funds and here in the Philippines there are only fewer than a 100. But Mutual Funds can be classified into 4 types as follows: Bond Fund, Stock Fund, Money Market Fund, and Balanced Fund. They are so named in accordance to where the Mutual Fund is invested in.

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How then will we choose which kind of mutual fund we will invest in? The answer is based on your investment risk appetite and/or your