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A Mutual Fund is a financial market entity registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) that pools money from individual and corporate investors to invest in a diversified range of financial market instruments such as equity shares, government securities, bonds, and money market instruments. It manages these investments on behalf of the investors or unit holders and distributes the returns generated. In simple terms, a mutual fund provides investors an opportunity to indirectly participate in a diversified portfolio of financial market assets.

For a retail investor who does not have the time and expertise to analyze and invest in stocks and bonds, mutual funds offer a viable investment alternative. This is because:

• Mutual Funds provide the benefit of cheap access to expensive stocks

• Mutual funds diversify the risk of the investor by investing in a basket of assets

• A team of professional fund managers manages them with in-depth research inputs from investment analysts.

• Being institutions with good bargaining power in markets, mutual funds have access to crucial corporate information which individual investors cannot access.

One can invest by approaching a registered broker of Mutual funds or the respective offices of the Mutual funds in that particular town/city. An application form has to be filled up giving all the particulars along with the cheque or Demand Draft for the amount to be invested.

Yes. Your income from mutual funds in the form of dividends is entirely exempt from income tax provided the fund in question is a equity/growth fund where more than 50 percent of the portfolio is invested in equities.Please note that in the Union Budget 2000, the tax on debt funds has been increased from 10 percent to 20 percent.

Investors need to be clear that mutual funds are essentially medium to long term investments. Hence, short-term abnormal profits will not be sustainable in the long run. But in the medium to long run the mutual funds tend to outperform most other avenues of investments at the same time avoiding the risk of direct investment accompanied with professional fund management.