Global Investments
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Alternate Investment Funds
Alternate Investment Funds are a special category of Funds under Securities and Exchange Board of India AIF Regulation Act. Such Funds have a large ticket size, usually one crore Indian Rupees. They have more risk associated with them as compared to stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Alternate Investments Funds include: Venture Capital Funds Venture Capital…
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Limitations of ETFs.
ETFs or Exchange Traded Funds have been gaining popularity in India over the last five years. ETFs offer some advantages over Mutual Funds but also suffer from some limitations: 1. Liquidity: ETFs are bought and sold over a stock Exchange. If a particular ETF is not popular or widely used it may become difficult to…
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Advantages of Exchange Traded Funds over Mutual Funds.
ETFs offer the following advantages over Mutual Funds: 1. Lower Fund Management Charges. 2. Eliminates duplicity or overlap of buying Stocks through different Mutual Funds. 3. Exposure to the entire Stock Market in a Country or Region through One or Two ETFs. 4. Global Exposure. 5. Easy Liquidity throughout the Year. 6. Tax implications as…
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Index Funds and ETFs.
Index Funds are mutual funds, which are based on an underlying index, such as the Nifty 50 or the Sensex. Index Funds are passively managed funds, meaning that the fund manager plays an inactive role in managing the fund. These funds try to replicate the underlying index with the exact weight given to each stock…
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Index.
An Index is a collection of Stocks. It is composed of Stocks from a particular Industry, Country, Continent or the World. It is also segregated as Developed Markets, Emerging Markets and Frontier Markets (Under-Developed Countries). An Index can be theoretical, or it can have practical applications in the form of Index Funds and ETFs. Indices…
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International Investments.
Indians have been investing in our domestic stock market for several decades. The BSE Sensex was launched in 1979 and NSE Nifty in 1993. Mutual Fund Sector was privatised in 1992 after India’s liberalisation initiative and since 2010 Alternative Investments such as Venture Capital, Private Equity, Angel Investing, started gaining momentum. There is one area…