If I tell you
that I can only save 10,000 rupees every month
but a few years later
Instead of ten thousand
I want one crore,
you would say I am joking.
Because I cannot make
one crore from ten thousand rupees.
But friends,
if you invest 10, 000 rupees every month
for the next twenty years
in an asset that gives you only 13% returns,
then after twenty years
the money will become more than one crore.
Hello, friends.
I, Jagdeep Singh, welcome you to
Groww channel
Mutual Funds are good.
We all know that mutual funds are good.
But which mutual fund is good for me?
which mutual fund is good for you?
This we don't always know.
In this video,
we'll talk about five points
you have to keep in mind
while choosing the right mutual fund.
And at the end of the video
I'll tell you something interesting
if you have deposited money in bank or FD
there is a type of mutual fund
in which if you invest
will give you higher returns than bank
and the risk is negligible.
How we do start our investment journey?
Normally in India
people like me would start investing
with encouragement from friends.
Like my friend called me one day and said
"I have invested in mutual funds."
"it gives good returns."
"You too should invest."
So the first trigger point is your peers.
Secondly, how do we choose our mutual funds?
We go to a random website
take a look at its past returns,
where the returns are high, we invest there.
Is this the correct way of investing?
No, friends.
This is not the correct way at all.
Because, yes, by looking at the past returns
you get to know its past performance.
But if you are investing today,
you get returns in the upcoming days.
And through research
it is not difficult to find good mutual funds.
I am going to tell you those five factors
using which
you can choose the best mutual funds.
First point: goal
when we are young,
we have academic goals.
When we go to college,
we have career goals.
When we are working,
even then we have goals for future.
But friends,
why do we forget to have goals
when it comes to investing?
Where goals are very important,
we don't remember our goals
and invest anywhere.
So whenever you invest in a mutual fund,
the most important
is your financial goal.
Which you would like to fulfill
through your investment.
And the remaining factors that I will tell you about,
they are all based on your goal.
Goal could be anything--
small or big.
Like you want to buy a car after a few years
you want to buy a house
you want money for your children's marriage
or you want to retire after a few years.
Or it is also possible that you don't have a goal.
What do you do then?
You will have to invest your money somewhere
so that your wealth would grow.
This is called wealth creation.
So first of all,
before you invest
decide what your goal is.
And then decide how to invest.
After goal, the other factors are
duration and risk.
If I talk about duration and risk
these revolve around goal.
These three factors are interlinked.
How?
I will tell you.
Assume that I got a job today.
I wish to own a car after three years.
For that I will need ten lakh rupees.
So buying a car became my goal.
The ten lakh rupees is my first financial goal.
When do I want to buy a car?
After three years.
So the three years is my duration.
Now you must be thinking
I told you about goal and duration
but not about risk.
That's because I think risk
is a very important topic
which needs to be discussed in detail.
So, friends,
risk is, when we invest money somewhere,
the chances of its value going lower instead of higher.
It means, if you invest 100 rupees,
there is a chance that instead of 105, it
could go down to 95.
The chances of it going down
and how much you can bear it is risk.
And risk is personal for everyone.
Friends,
risk and returns are linked to each other.
If you want more returns,
you will have to take more risk.
On the other hand, if you take more risk
you need not necessarily get more returns.
Come on, let's discuss some goals in detail.
Which mutual fund is suitable for which goal.
Let's talk about the first goal.
I want to buy a car after three years.
The duration of my goal is three years.
Which mutual fund should I chose for three years?
Friends, always remember this rule:
if you are investing for less than three years
try to invest more in debt funds.
The risk is less in debt funds.
although the returns is also less,
but not very much.
But if you want to invest for a short period of time,
you should invest in debt funds.
As you can see from the screen,
you want to buy a car after three years
for six lakh rupees.
From now, every month
you will have to invest 15,000.
I told you,
if your investment horizon is less than 3 or 4 years,
then you should invest in debt funds.
So I have taken the average returns
of debt funds as just 7%.
If you invest, from today,
15,000 rupees every month in debt funds
in which the average returns is 7%,
your goal will be achieved in three years.
You will get the investment value of six lakhs.
As you can see on the screen,
if you want to invest for a very short period,
you can choose liquid funds.
Similarly, the options are
ultra short term, low duration,
short term, mid term,
long term and gilt funds.
It is not necessary that
you make only short term investments in debt funds.
If you want to take very less risk,
and make investment on longer term
then you can use debt funds
for investment.
On the screen
at the end you can see a special type of fund
called gilt fund.
Gilt fund is a special type of fund
that invests only in government securities.
For example, government bonds,
municipality bonds
and bonds of state governments.
So it is relatively safer.
In the last one year,
gilt funds have given more than
12% returns.
Now let's go to the second goal.
My second goal is that I want to buy
a house in ten years.
So my goal is ten years,
my duration is ten years.
When the duration of your investment
exceeds three years
there is a special case of mutual funds
that we call equity mutual funds.
The specialty of equity mutual funds is that
though your risk taking capability should be more
you get more returns.
In this case,
when your duration is more than three years,
you should keep your portfolio balanced
between debt mutual funds and equity mutual funds.
To explain it in simple terms,
if you like to take more risks,
you should buy more equity mutual funds
rather than debt funds.
If the duration is the same
but your risk appetite is less,
then you should buy more debt funds
than equities.
Let's do the calculations for our second goal.
You want a house
ten years from now.
Its value will be 50 lakh rupees.
If from today
I make 25,000 rupees investment
every month,
as I told you
our duration is ten years
So I will invest in debt as well as equity.
If my overall returns is 10%
from both,
then my investment goal will be achieved.
my investment value will reach 50 lakh rupees
after ten years
using which you can fulfill
the dream of buying a house.
Like I showed you different types of debt funds
there are different types of
equity mutual funds too.
As you can see on the screen,
Small cap mutual fund,
mid cap mutual fund,
large cap mutual fund,
and multi-cap mutual funds.
If we start from large cap funds,
large cap equity mutual funds are the mutual funds
that invest in large cap companies.
Large cap companies like Reliance, Kotak Mahindra Bank
the big companies.
So large cap mutual funds
that invest in equities
have lower risk when compared to
mid cap and small cap funds,
and so is the returns.
Likewise,
small cap mutual funds are those
that invest in small cap companies,
or small companies.
Let's talk about my third goal.
Imagine that I am 28 years old now.
I want to retire 32 years from now.
When I retire I need money
that will take care of my basic needs.
So friends,
now my duration is 32 years.
When the duration becomes 32 years
or long
As I mentioned there are types
of equity mutual funds:
small,
mid
and large cap.
So if we talk about longer duration,
my risk appetite is slightly bigger
I can take more risks.
In that case,
the investment I made in equities
I can invest more in small cap or mid cap
rather than large cap.
That way I can balance my overall portfolio
because I invest some money in small cap
some in mid cap
some in large cap
and also some in debt funds
so that my overall portfolio is diversified,
risk is more
and I get more returns.
Let's discuss the third goal.
Like I told you
I want to retire after 32 years,
and I need 5 crore rupees to retire
to fulfill my basic needs.
For that I will have to invest
in both debt and equity.
If my duration is 32
it is quite high
so I can invest in small cap
and mid cap equities.
If I take more risk,
I can expect more than 10%,
I can expect 12.5% returns.
If I invest 12,000 every month
on debt and equity
in the future,
for which I expect
only 12.5% returns
in the next 32 years
my money will become five crores.
Past performance:
how your mutual fund performed
in the past.
As I told you in the beginning,
past performance doesn't tell you
about future performance
but it tells you about
the fund manager's capabilities
how market was in the past,
how other mutual funds performed then
and how your mutual fund performed.
You should always compare
the past performance of your fund
with other mutual funds of the same category.
If I would like to invest in a mid cap fund,
and look at the returns of the last three years
compare the returns to other mid cap funds
in comparison, if the returns are good,
the fund is relatively better.
If it is not better,
then the fund has not performed well.
Come on, now let's talk about the last point.
Expense Ratio.
You might know that when you invest
your money goes to an asset management company
that will invest it on your behalf
in either debt
or equities.
They too have expenses of
running their company.
This they take from your money
so they can run their business.
This we call Expense Ratio.
Normally, the expense ratio ranges from
zero to 1.5%.
So when you think about investing
remember to check the expense ratio.
The more the expense ratio
the more your expense will be
as an investor.
The less it is
the better it is for you.
As I told you,
to choose a good mutual fund,
you have to look at its past performance
and compare it with the category average
and also, expense ratio
and the fund manager's profile
are also very important
in choosing a good mutual fund.
You can find the link to download Groww app in the description.
Or you can go to Groww website
you can learn all these details very easily.
You can also compare your
mutual fund with other mutual funds.
I had told you that I will tell you
something if you have kept money in banks,
in savings account or FD,
there is a better investment option,
where risk is very less,
almost negligible.
but you get better returns.
And that is liquid funds.
If you invest in liquid funds
you get almost 7% returns.
If you use Groww app
Groww gives you multiple options
of investing in different liquid funds.
In some liquid funds, you can do
a one-click withdrawal
absolutely free of cost.
If your money is in savings bank,
if it is not of any use,
invest in liquid funds.
If ever the need arises,
you can make a one-click withdrawal
to transfer it to your savings bank
through Groww app.
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You must be thinking that each one of us
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