r2i forum

Another related point for USC kids living in India, although is not related to the the purpose of this thread (education) but about the kid's life. If kid doesn't settles down in US, he's on the hook for his entire life for paying taxes to IRS on his earning, investments, etc under FBAR and FATCA ...

Nice discussion Just to add to db's's point. Arbitrage fund are considered equity, hence dividends are tax free (both at the MF level and in your hands). Actually they are relatively very safe as for every opportunity, they make two opposing transaction to take advantage of arbitrage in current and ...

Tried to do a rough calculation. [U][B]For dividend option[/B][/U], if someone had invested 3 lac in 1996, he would have got 54545 unit. Based on the dividend history, he would have got close to 39 lac in dividends( 3872727) in these 20 years. His current valuation of MF holding will be close to 25 ...

DBS, All NAV of mf which i quoted are for growth type funds. They don't pay dividends as their aim is capital appreciation (some of them might pay but its rare). Literally every mf has a dividend paying equivalent also. I think you are interested in that. But dividend is really not advisable if you ...

I do agree there are hidden costs. Those are with every type of investment. The fund house and manager cannot do work for charity, right? You are purchasing them for returns. As I had said before, the fund expenses are already discounted in NAV. When you buy you pay, you get Amount/NAV units. When ...

I think my apologies are due. I had mis-interpreted and thought u meant 24% absolute return. Thats why I put a long post to explain in absolute terms of NAV. Again apologies [QUOTE=dbs;632915]Can you please, tell me where did I go wrong ...

And also invest in active funds also. Bcs no one know the future. Active funds may very well beat passive and you may regret. Also Try to diversify a bit into funds investing in bonds, government and corporate debt also. But again that depends on your risk apetite and aim

Exactly. This topic went through quite a lot of diverse themes. If you look back at my answers, I have always said in USA, ETF and passive funds make sense then investing in active funds . I have never said otherwise. I always follow diversification. Never fall in love with an asset class, because ...

Interesting thread :). If peeping into someone bedroom and evaluating their privacy is legal, then I an damns sure most of the people in India will be behind bars (including older generation). Oral sex is still illegal, so is anal (prob very less people here) as well as watching porn (not now, but ...

Also one thing most people don't realize that index is just a concept. Its in no way representative of the stock market, leave apart the economy. Index is just a collection of stocks in a pre-determined percentage, decided by whoever power that be. If you are influential , you can define your own ...