The money you invest is used by the mutual fund to buy a mix of government or corporate bonds that pay regular interest. The money thus invested in debt funds is relatively safer than equity investments, because the government will always pay back its “debt”!

When you buy units of a debt fund, you essentially help an institution take a loan. Read more to find out how.

Prices go up because every minute of every day, materials are being transformed into products by entities all around you. You’re doing so too, right now in your own company, before you took the break to read this.

For your curious soul, this short read explains what makes the price of your funds fluctuate.

Is it real-time events, news items or something else entirely?

Unlike in a savings bank account or FD, you don’t get interest in mutual funds. So how does your money grow?

In order to setup my PF account to enable electronic withdrawals, I recently tried to seed my Aadhar number in the EPF UAN portal and went through some struggles that many of you are likely to go through, or are already going through.

Did you know you’re building a secret saving of over Rs. 1 Cr in something called the Employee Provident Fund (EPF)!?