Monday, December 24, 2007

Mutual find investing is better for low risk takers

Are you planning to invest? But worried about where to invest! You are suppose not too convinced about the play in Stock market. If you are having this problem then it is better to invest in Mutual fund as they are more secured than Stock or Shares. Mutual fund investment may not give you that much higher return that stocks can give you but it will give relatively secured high return. For stock market or share marker investment you are not aware of the fact of all aspects of a company, in one angle the company may look good but you don’t know the other part of it. If you still want to invest in stock market then don’t invest the total amount in one company. The company may be a blue chip company, but still diversify your amount of investment in pretty similar respected companies. This is called portfolio management. It will reduce the risk in all companies. The advantage of portfolio management is that one companies lose can be covered by others profit.

If you can’t manage your portfolio then mutual fund is the best possible option for you. One thing is that the mutual fund investors can’t see the day to day growth of their fund whereas stock market investors can find it in a second. But still for new comer or those who don’t want to take too much risk, mutual fund investment is best for them.

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