Mutual Fund is one of the popular and growing choices of an investor. It allows investors to benefit from the collective strength of the group (pool). The benefits include:

1. Services of Investment Professionals

An average investor is not well versed in the capital markets or may not have access to adequate information to invest successfully: or may simply not have the time to acquire information and analyze it. By investing through a mutual fund, the investor is able to acquire the services of a team of professionals dedicated to the investment business, whose cost is spread over the entire pool and thus is at a very low cost for the investor.

2. Ability to Diversify

An average investor will normally invest small amounts of money and cannot achieve an adequate level of diversification. An investor of even a small amount in a mutual fund will achieve immediate diversification by becoming a part owner of the entire portfolio of the mutual fund.

3. Ability to invest very small amounts

An investor, who wishes to invest very small amounts, even $ 100 can do so by investing in some mutual funds (normally open-ends). The same amount of $100 will not be entertained by any broker in the capital markets, which are normally the exclusive domain of the rich and wealthy.

4. Ability to multiply savings

It an investor wishes to build up savings of small amounts every month, he does not have to wait to first build up large enough amounts to invest meaningfully: by investing every month in a mutual fund, the investor can make the monthly savings earn and grow as these are accumulated.

5. Ability to diversify price volatility risk

At the point in time when an investor has some funds to invest, the market may be rising (bullish) or declining (bearish); he is never too sure if he is entering the market at the right time. By investing small amounts in mutual funds regularly, the investor is able to average out the fluctuations in the purchase price some investment will be made when the market is high and some when it is low: the average is likely to be at the mid-point.

6. Ability to match investment with risk taking ability

Most investors have their own unique risk taking ability. Retired persons will normally have a low risk taking ability; on the other hand, younger persons or persons with adequate resources are normally able to take higher risk and should therefore be able to benefit from higher potential rewards.

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