If I invest 1 lakh for long term investment in mutual fund like 5 years?

and during that period the market goes up and down, how will that affect my dividend when it matures will I lose or gain and can I take out my money before it matures.

Mutual funds do not mature as such. Normally, you can take your money out any time. They do however go up and down. They generally do pay dividends which you can choose to take in cash or reinvest. Many people do choose to reinvest. Generally speaking 5 years is a sufficient time frame for the ups and downs to average out, but not always. 10 years would be a better horizon for the averages to work themselves out. Now India is growing rapidly and in 5 years if history is any indication you should wind up with an investment of almost 2 lakh, maybe even more if you are very fortunate. Don't really expect the fantastic returns that mutual funds have returned during the previous 5 years. That would be very unusual indeed.

Here is a link to a site where you can evaluate all the different mutual funds that you can invest in. In my opinion you should choose one that has a broad holding of different types of stocks.

http://www.valueresearchonline.com/funds...

100,000 investment? who knows what the world economy will be like in 5 years. nothing counts unless you sell.

Investment in mutual fund is not secure & there is no guarrenty that you will make money. Though past performace of most funds was very good in last 4 years & these funds has provided a return of 20-50 % annuallised return(but past performace is not a guarrenty of future & you can make or loose based on market performance).
My advice for you will be to invest through SIP & choose stablished funds (don't go for NFO).

If you are not investing in Tax saving or close ended fund, then you can withdraw any time. (There can be Exit load in some funds if you withdraw before a minimum time)

the dividend will not be affected, but the share price will, and theoretically you can take out your money before it matures, but if the fund is end loaded you pay a hefty penalty, also you should know that in a unstable market, they refuse to let you get out.

Mutual funds are termed less risky because it is professionally handled and the money is invested in different stocks/securities etc. sothat on the worst situation you my get back the principal hopefully. SBI, ICICI, Standard chartered bank,IDBI and other premier banks,some financial institutions like sundaram finance (TVSGroup), Tata ,Birla etc., are good enough to give you good return.

You should not put all your savings in one company mutual funmd. you can distribute to different funds .with difftrent features. In open ended schemes , I think you have the option to sell as per NAV before maturity. You ask for prospectus of different schemes . The respective institutions will send their agents to you to explain the various features of different schemes.

People are now investing more in mutual funds due to economic stability in India for the past a few years.Risk is a part of life. We have to be judicious in investments .Not all inone basket. some deposits can be made in Term deposits with Nationalised banks or premier banks. as well.

Wish you best of luck!

When you invest in MF, you have two choices:

1. Growth and
2 a) Dividend payout and
b) Dividend reinvestment

Don't worry about dividend in choice 1 and 2.b

You want dividend paid to you, the time is decided by MF and you don't have any controll when the dividend is to be paid. I advise don't worry about dividends. Invest in 1.

MF can give you very good returns as 30-40% annual, in long range ( 2 to 5 years)

u can invest in good mutual fund companies like Birla HDFC Fidelity etc. ., but keep the foll things in mind
1. No mutual fund can gurranttee u a fixed return
2. Mutual Fund Prices go up and down along with prices in share market.
3. No MF company can gurranttee u a dividend. itr all depends on how much they earn and whether they like to distribute the money earned to MF unitholders or reinvest.
4 There is no fixed maturity period for a mutual fund . u can enter any time and get out any time
5. the above is applicable for Equity Based Mutual Funds.
6. You can Invest in Debt Mutual Funds which are much more safe but the returns are quite low.
for more research www.moneycontrol.com. is the best site to give u all the info.

Investing in Mutual Funds is the best passive way to get advantage of booming Indian stock market.
Any investment in leading MF for a period of 5 years can give you a return of a least 20% CAGR, i.e. you can expect a maturity amount of approx. 2.5 lac, you should go for Growth option in place of dividend, the entire maturity amount at the end of 5 years is tax free. The option to withdraw any/all amount any time is available.
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