
Originally Posted by
makie
Investing brings along risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible return. When it comes to mutual funds, the risk is higher compared to banks but logically, money doesn't grow in banks as much as in mutual funds. So why mutual funds?
1.) Mutual funds are diversified. If you invest in mutual funds, your investment will be invested not just in one company but in several companies. Diversification reduces risk since seldom or maybe never will it happen that all the companies that the fund managers invested in will all go down.
2.) Mutual funds are convenient. If you have some spare money, put it in mutual funds and you could forget about it. How? On the investors behalf, fund managers will do the investing. They are focusing on the market 24/7 and study the trend of the market.
Mutual funds is just like investing in the stock market only that in stock market, the investor does the work. Growth rates in investing directly in stocks might be higher than the performance of mutual funds but investing in stocks is only good for professionals or for people who have gained significant knowledge and experience in stock trading and investing.
3.) Mutual funds is easy. The process of investing in mutual funds is basically just the same as opening a savings account in a bank. You leave your money to the mutual fund company and let it grow. You don't need a knowledge about the stock market in order to let your money grow.
However, one should understand the basics in order to keep track of the investment. The fund performance is transparent and it could be tracked online on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis.
Before investing in mutual funds, do a research about different mutual funds companies and compare their performances for the past years or even decades. Mutual funds offers a good growth but you want to get the best growth right?
A good tip would be to further diversify by investing in more than one mutual fund company. the market is unpredictable and one company might perform better than the others. Another tip is to invest long term. The performance might go up or down and the risk is high if the time being is short. Past performances show that in time, it goes up.