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How to Redeem Glide Coins ?
Glide Coins are virtual coins that investors earn for healthy investing habits. Once an investor exhibits these healthy investment habits, and earns a certain no of Glide Coins into their account, they can redeem them for cash rewards back into the ...
What are ELSS Funds?
An equity-linked saving scheme (ELSS) is an equity mutual fund scheme which invests a minimum of 80% of its total assets in equity and equity-related instruments. It is an open-ended scheme with a lock-in period of 3 years. When you invest in an ELSS ...
My Bank IFSC code was not recognised by the application. Please help.
There are a set of banks that our partner BSE Star approves for Netbanking and Mandate based payments. We have added the same list to the application, and will try to match your bank's IFSC code against that list. If your bank is missing from the ...
What is indexation?
Indexation is the benefit provided on long-term capital gains in various assets, including debt mutual funds. It allows investors to increase their ‘cost of acquisition’, while calculating capital gains and, thus, reduces taxable capital ...
What is the difference between multicap and flexicap funds?
As per the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), multicap funds are a class of equity funds that are required to invest at least 75% of their assets in equities. Additionally, they are required to allocate at least 25% towards each of ...
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What is asset allocation?
Asset allocation is a portfolio construction strategy that involves the use of multiple asset classes to create a portfolio with risk and return characteristics suitable as per the individual’s risk profile. While equity and debt are the most ...
What is Passive Investing?
Passive investing is an investing strategy that tracks an index. It broadly refers to a strategy where investors, generally having a long-term plan, buy-and-hold stocks and do minimal trading in the market. Investing in Index funds and ETFs are the ...
How to Redeem Glide Coins ?
Glide Coins are virtual coins that investors earn for healthy investing habits. Once an investor exhibits these healthy investment habits, and earns a certain no of Glide Coins into their account, they can redeem them for cash rewards back into the ...
Who manages Index Funds?
Just like actively managed mutual funds, index funds are also managed by fund managers. But fund managers have a little role to play, because constituents of index funds seldom change. Managers just buy and hold all the securities of a particular ...
Why should you not invest in index funds?
Index funds are built to replicate the index and most active fund managers charge fees to outperform indexes. Therefore, an investor who is purely looking to do better than the index should not invest in index funds. It’s important to point out that ...