Allow me to tell you a story about why I’m writing an article on the topic of mutual fund charges. Recently, I met a worried senior citizen (my uncle). He was upset about the low returns his mutual fund (SIP) is yielding. He was so upset that he was even calling it a scam. Uncle even shared his…
Capture ratio is one of the most understandable financial-ratio in which we (small investors) can gauge a mutual fund’s return from a perspective. I’ll tell you how. We often pick mutual funds for investment based on their past returns. It is like evaluating a mutual fund based on only one parameter. Which is not enough, right? But…
Why I got interested in the concept of Net Asset Value (NAV)? Because it helped me to see my portfolio-building from the eyes of a mutual fund manager. Generally, I build my savings under several heads (like saving#1, saving#2 etc). Overtime, savings keeps accumulating under each head. When it becomes sufficiently large, I use a…
Lowest NAV mutual fund means it is undervalued? No necessarily. One can earn higher return if one buys a good mutual fund at undervalued NAV. There is a difference between “undervalued NAV” and “lowest NAV”. Low NAV does not necessarily mean the fund is undervalued. Lower NAV may be cheap for your pocket, but it…
