Click on the link "Buy Now" in the MF Trading section. You will be asked to select from the various mutual fund houses. Select the fund house. You will now see all the schemes of the fund house. Select the mutual fund scheme that you wish to invest in. After that choose the amount that you wish to invest in and make an online payment through your Indian bank account or your US bank account through ACH pay mode of remit2india.

The lists of platforms that currently offer the mutual funds that we manage are available on the TFS Market Neutral Fund and TFS Small Cap Fund pages of our website. The mutual funds managed by TFS can be added to additional platforms upon request. If you would like us to consider a platform, please contact us.

You can invest in SBI's Mutual funds online provided you have internet banking access to your NRE account with SBI. Before you may go ahead, you will have to get for yourself a Mutual Fund Identification Number (MIN) which is mandatory for all mutual fund investments in India wef 1.1.2007. Once you have the MIN (for this visit www.amfiindia.com) choose the scheme you wish to invest in at www.sbimf.com. The rest is simple.

Sure, but you will have to manually enter a complete EOD quote (OHLCV). Some people think this is sort of a redundant effort, since many fund managers use technical analysis on the underlying stocks, anyway. Lots of others do it, though. Each could involve a number of different data formats, depending upon just what is available, or usable: complete/partial exchanges, portfolios, intra-day and/or EOD quotes, indices, histories, etc., are all possible.

A mutual fund refers to a collective investment scheme under which professional fund managers pool money from individual investors and manage it according to pre-set investment objectives. The investment objectives can range from maximizing capital gains to maintaining a stable stream of income, and from beating inflation to preserving capital.

Ideally, your fund roster should have more players than a basketball team but no more than a baseball team. For your starting five, a diversified lineup would be funds representing these types of stocks: large, fast-growing companies; smaller fast-growing companies; large companies selling at bargain prices; smaller companies selling as bargains; and foreign companies.

ING DIRECT Funds Limited is currently licensed to distribute mutual funds in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland & Labrador. Each province has it's own specific rules and regulations regarding the distribution of mutual funds. Although we are not currently licensed in other provinces today, we would like to make our funds available to more investors and are making plans to do so.

DBS Vickers Online Hong Kong offers investors in Hong Kong over 300 SFC authorized mutual funds from 13 fund houses. DBS Vickers Online Singapore offers investors in Singapore approximately 100 locally registered funds managed by 9 fund management companies.

For DBS Vickers Online Hong Kong customers, you can buy, sell or switch a fund by calling our Investment Service Centre at (852) 2902 3888, from 8:00 a.m. Monday through 4:00 p.m. Saturday. For DBS Vickers Online Singapore customers, you can buy, sell or switch a fund by calling our Investment Service Centre at (65) 6327 2288, from 8:00 a.m. Monday through 4:00 p.m. Saturday.

Give me one fund to invest in -- no portfolios or index funds, please. And I don't like to take too much risk.

Your investment horizon can be broadened because there are different types of funds that can provide a convenient and cost effective way to capitalize on both local and overseas investment opportunities. Diversification may take different forms, e.g. along geographic or industry lines, or amongst different securities or issuers.

Annual management fees are usually allocated from the fund on a daily basis and will not constitute an out-of-pocket expense for investors. They vary among different types of funds.

Settlement requirements for mutual funds vary. Some funds such as money market funds may require cleared fund whereas the others require three to five business days for settlement. Please contact our Investment Service Centres 8:00 a.m. Monday through 4:00 p.m. Saturday at (852) 2902 3888 in Hong Kong or (65) 6327 2288 in Singapore for more information.

The drawbacks with mutual funds are that you have no control on the investments of the fund; and, more importantly, the downside of diversification is that a fund can hold so many stocks that a tremendously great performance by a stock will make very little difference to a fund's overall performance.

Mutual funds have many benefits. They offer an easy and inexpensive way for an individual to get returns from stocks and bonds without: incurring the risks involved in buying them directly; needing the capital to buy quality stocks; or having the expert knowledge to make the right buy/sell decisions.

All Asset Management Companies (AMCs) are regulated by SEBI and/or the RBI (in case the AMC is promoted by a bank). In addition, every Mutual Fund has a board of directors that represents the unit holders' interests in the Mutual Fund.

Although past performance is no guarantee for the future, it is a useful way of assessing how well or badly a fund has performed in comparison to its stated objectives and peer group. A good way to do this would be to identify the five best performing funds (within your selected investment objectives) over various periods, say 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years and 3 years.

Release of the discovery is so new I don't believe others have had much opportunity to incorporate it into their trading strategies. Eventually I can conceive of an environment where The Taylor Effect will become a required tool for the financially informed. Accurate market trend forecasts were not available until now. Today, investment advisors and individual investors will have an incredible advantage they never had before.

In a nutshell, professional management, diversification, safety, liquidity, and service. If you were to manage your own portfolio of stocks, you'd have to research, select, and monitor thousands of securities to construct a diversified portfolio of stocks. There's an easier way. Mutual funds offer numerous advantages to individual investors, including toll-free switching, checking privileges, automatic dividend and capital gains reinvestment, and trained customer service reps.