General awareness about mutual funds

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The concept of ‘Mutual Funds' is to make different investment avenues available to investors. Mutual funds also offer good investment opportunities to the investors. Like all investments, they carry certain risks. The investors should compare the risks and expected yields after adjustment of tax on various instruments while taking investment decisions. The investors may seek advice from experts and consultants including agents and distributors of mutual funds schemes while making investment decisions. With an objective to make the investors aware of functioning, of mutual funds, an attempt has been made to provide information in question-answer format which may help the investors in taking investment decisions. With an objective to make the investors aware of functioning, of mutual funds, an attempt has been made to provide information in question-answer format which may help the investors in taking investment decisions. Mutual fund is a Mechanism for pooling the resources by issuing units to the investors and investing funds in securities in accordance with objectives as disclosed in offer document.

Industry overview
1. The concept of ?mutual fund'
2. Advantages of mutual funds
3. Tax treatment of mutual funds
4. Future scenario
5. Financial planning
About Motilal Ooswal Securites Ltd
1. History and milestones
2. People behind the organization
3. Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd
4. Testimonials
5. Financial services of Motilal Oswal Scurities Ltd
6. Services
Scope of the project
Objectives of project
Research methodology
1. Research design
2. Hypothesis
3. Sources of data and data collection
Limitation of the study
Data analysis and interpretation
Findings
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[...] Majority of respondents knew either very little about mutual funds and their mechanism or they knew nothing. During interviews it was found that main reason for lower level of investments in mutual fund was lower level of awareness regarding mutual funds their investment mechanism among respondents. Very few knew about mutual funds and their mechanism of investment in different markets. Q Interested to Knowledge about Mutual Funds a. Yes b. No Table 9 Table Showing Whether Respondents Were Interested To Know About Mutual Funds Response Option Yes No Inference: Majority of respondents were keen to know more about concept of mutual funds and their investment mechanism. [...]

[...] TAX TREATMENT OF MUTUAL FUNDS A mutual fund is in essence a way for investors to pool their money together for investment purposes. Although you can make deposits as well as withdrawals from a mutual fund, it is a mistake to look at it as a glorified bank account. That is because when you deposit money into a mutual fund account, you are actually purchasing stock in the mutual fund, not simply dropping your money into a bank account to accumulate some interest. [...]

[...] UTI created to the demand for income –oriented schemes by launching Monthly Income Schemes a some what unusual mutual fund offering “assured returns.” The Mutual Fund Industry in India not only started with UTI, but still counts UTI as its largest player with the largest corpus of instable funds among all mutual funds currently operating in India. Unit 1980's UTI's operations in the stock market often determined the directions of market movements. Now many Indian investors have taken to direct investing on stock markets. [...]

[...] Survey done during this study also tried to identify awareness about modern investment instrument such as mutual fund among investors and their approach towards it. Study will help to identify general investment behavior of different group of investors and awareness of modern investment instruments among them. OBJECTIVES OF PROJECT Primary Objectives Secondary Objectives Primary Objectives To study investment behavior of different class of investor. To study investment profile of investors and identify different financial planning options available to investors. To study awareness of mutual fund as an investment option available to the investor. [...]

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