Mutual Fund

Mutual fund is a professionally managed investment scheme that pools money from different investors having same financial goals. Mutual funds may invest in variety of instruments like stocks, bonds, money market securities, gold or a combination of these which provides diversification to your investments.
Fund Managers have crucial market information that helps them execute trade in lucrative way. By distributing your money across different types of investments, investing in multiple companies and in more than one sector, they ensure that the portfolio is efficiently diversified.

• Benefits of investing in a mutual fund are numerous. Some of them are:
• Daily Liquidity
• Professional Investment Management
• Increased Diversification
• Transparency
• Affordability

IPO

IPO is offering shares of a privately owned company to be sold to general public for the first time. Initial public offerings are used by companies to raise expansion capital, to possibly monetize the investments of early private investors, and to become publicly traded enterprises. If a company is presently performing well, then buying its IPO is a good call because the price of the share will be expected to increase after being listed.

Fixed Deposit

Company Fixed Deposit is the deposit placed by investors with companies for a fixed term carrying a prescribed rate of interest. Eureka offers multitudes of fixed deposit schemes for various durations. It offers simple reinvestment Fixed Deposits (at very competitive interest rates). These deposits offer a higher rate of interest as compared to bank fixed deposits & are targeted at conservative set of investors with low risk appetite who do not wish to be disturbed by unpredictable market movements.

Bonds & Debentures

Bonds & Debentures are debt instruments issued by government and corporations to raise money at a fixed rate of interest. Corporations are obliged to pay coupons at fixed interval and principle at maturity. These investments generate fixed income periodically in form of coupons. They offer higher rate of interest and are more liquid as compared to Fixed Deposits. The income by way of interest on these Bonds is fully exempt from Income Tax and shall not form part of Total Income as per provisions under section 10 (15) (iv) (h) of I.T. Act, 1961. Also, Government Bonds have very low default risk. Bonds provide corporates & governments an alternate channel to meet their fund requirement. The tax implications of bonds defer depending on the type of Bonds, however these bonds are exempt from Wealth Tax under Wealth Tax Act, 1957.