8 Popular types of Mutual Funds in India

What are Mutual Funds?

Mutual funds have been gaining popularity in the past few years as an effective method of investment. Mutual funds act as an alternative investment option where many investors have their money collected together to invest in securities like stocks, bonds and other assets. Professional money managers allocate the funds in order to create capital gains for the investors.

Mutual funds work as an investment option through which small or individual investors have access to diversified and professionally managed portfolios at a low price.

The most popular types of mutual funds are listed below:

Equity Funds

Debt Funds

Money Market Funds

Index Funds

Balanced Funds

Income Funds

Funds of funds

Specialty Funds

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6 reasons commodity prices are determined in the commodity market

Today commodity trading has become advanced with financial instruments such as futures contracts, derivatives, options, and swaps. The most common trading items all over the world are crude oil, gold, silver, copper, natural gas, and soybean.

 

The world's largest commodity exchange is in the US known as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). In India, there are six commodity exchanges, Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), National Commodity and Derivative Exchange (NCDEX), National Multi Commodity Exchange (NMCE), and Indian Commodity Exchange (ICX). All the commodity exchanges in India are regulated by SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India).

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