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    Equity versus Equity Mutual Funds

    Equity versus Equity Mutual Funds

    It takes less effort, less time, less experience and less specialised knowledge to get good returns from equity mutual funds than it does from directly trading in equities

    There are several benefits of investing through mutual funds instead of directly investing in stocks. Mutual funds combine the savings of a large number of investors and manage it as a single pool of money. So, instead of investors worrying about which stock or bond to invest in, professional fund managers do the job.

    Equities are complex and stocks you can buy come in a bewildering array of sectors, industries, size, financial structure, promoter track record, competitive scenarios and a lot more. When you invest in a fund from a good fund house, there is a full-fledged research department to keep tabs on all this; and there's an experienced full-time fund manager who has years –often decades — of track record of making equity investments. Moreover, his track record is publicly known and thoroughly analysed by researchers.

    Compared to directly picking stocks, mutual funds are a more suitable route for a lot of people. It simply takes less effort, less time, less experience and less specialised knowledge to get good returns from equity mutual funds than it does from directly trading in equities.

    Diversification — the most crucial aspect of investing — is much easier to practice for a fund investor. This is true of all kinds of diversification, including sectoral and of asset type. Many fixed income asset types like bonds are simply not available to individual investors.

    Besides time, money and diversification, there are other advantages too. Generally, mutual funds are more tax efficient. They are certainly a lot more convenient. Extremely beneficial methods like systematic investing (SIPs) are very hard to implement for equities but simple for funds.

    There's a more complicated psychological problem with directly picking stocks. Basically, what we've said here is that if you are skilled enough, then you can do it. However, equity investors are by nature optimistic and that makes them overestimate their own skills. That's often an expensive mistake.

    Source : http://www.valueresearchonline.com 

    https://www.valueresearchonline.com/story/h2_storyView.asp?str=23821

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