FD? or FMP?

Dear Investor, Most of us park our money in fixed deposits unaware that tax on interest earned can be as high as 33.99%! That’s why Fidelity’s Fixed Maturity Plan makes sense. The fund will aim to provide reasonable returns at minimal risk by investing in a quality portfolio of fixed income securities with maturity periods that are mostly in line with its own. And, you pay as little as 22.66% tax with indexation or 11.33% without it! Check out the table below.

FD? or FMP? * Pre-tax yield (illustrative) based on returns from securities rated P1+ /AAA / its equivalent (net of expenses) **Illustrative inflation assumed based on RBI objective of 7% inflation by Q4 FY09 ***Investors have the option of paying a flat 10% tax on their gains if they choose not to take indexation advantage All rates and returns provided are for Illustrative purposes only Fixed Deposit FMP Growth Option for Retail Plan (with indexation) Net pre-tax yield (illustrative) 10.00% 10.50%* Amount invested 100000 100000 Tenure 370 Days 370 Days Indexed value - FY09 (at 7%** assumed inflation) NA 107000 Taxable Income/Capital Gains 10137 3644 Income Tax/Capital Gains Tax***(%) 33.99% 22.66% Income Tax/Capital Gains Tax (Rs.) 3446 826 Post Tax Maturity Value 106691 109818 Post Tax Yield 6.69% 9.82%

your investment of Rs.18100 would now have gone to, hold your breath, Rs.3,26,888!!!!!

Dear sir,

I am in awe of your writings and would appreciate if you can guide a poor man like me. My earnings don’t leave with enough savings. Still, with great sacrifice on my part, I can invest 700rs per month. Is this too little? Should I consider investing in safe options like Bank FD; insurance, etc…Guide me to have some decent lump sum in around 20-25 years time. Please.

Thanks,

Nisarg

Dear Nisarg,

First of all, I appreciate your effort to save the money as "Money Saved is Money Earned"

Saving is nothing but “spending less than earned income”.

Rs.700 is not a small amount at all. Better late than never, better small than no investment at all.

Do you know that if you had invested just Rs.100 in Reliance Growth Fund for the last 181 months, your investment of Rs.18100 would now have gone to, hold your breath, Rs.3,26,888!!!!!

Yes, you read it right…your investment of a paltry of Rs.100 would have grown to more than 3 Lakhs of rupees….!!!!!!

So, if Rs.100 can achieve this much, your Rs.700 too could earn a lot and can easily make you a Crorepati..

Ignore people who tell you to invest in Recurring deposits or buy Gold or even consider Insurance.

Insurance is NOT AN INVESTMENT.

People do not advise you about Mutual Funds because they get ZERO Commission on Mutual Funds where as in Insurance they get about 40% (the recent IRDA has brought this down to about 10%, but still quite a deal) and in Post Office and other investment avenues, they get at the least 2%.

Gold at best gives a return on par with Inflation (even though the last few years have been an exception). With Recurring Deposit, you actually 'LOSE' your Capital when you consider Inflation and Taxes.

The Best option is 'MUTUAL FUNDS".

Reliance, SBI and Sundaram Mutual Funds have SIP for as low as Rs.100.

Sip investments allow you to start small and accumulate huge.

If possible, add another Rs.50 to your savings.

My advise for you is to split this Rs.700 into say about 4-5 Schemes and invest as advised below every month.

My preferred Funds would be

1.Reliance Growth Fund – Rs.100

2.Reliance Regular Savings Fund- Equity – Rs.100

3.SBI Magnum Contra Fund – Rs.100

4. Sundaram Mid Cap Fund – Rs.250

5. SBI Magnum Balanced Fund – Rs.100

6. Reliance Equity Opportunities Fund – Rs.100

These Funds are a Good mixture of Large Cap, Diversified and Balanced Funds with a bias towards Conservative investment.

Nifty Forms Bullish Hammer Candelstick Formation

Nifty Forms Bullish Hammer Candelstick Formation

Bullish Hammer

• Direction: Bullish
• Type: Reversal
• Reliability: Moderate

After an established downtrend
• Hammer candles have a small real body that forms at the upper end of the days trading range
• The candle can be either blue or red, analyst usually do not differentiate.
• Lower wick at least twice as long as the real body
• No (or almost no) upper wick

After a bearish sell-off a significant rally brings price back up creating a long bottom wick. By day end buyers are able to push prices back to the upper range creating a short body.

The Hammer pattern signifies a weakening in bearish sentiment. The long lower wick signifies an initial continuation of the downtrend. However, renewed buying sentiment acts as support and drives the price higher to close near its opening price.

• Strength and Confirmation

The strength of a Hammer formation depends on where it appears. If a hammer forms near support levels, then the likelihood of a strong bullish reversal is high. However, if the hammer forms in the middle of a trading range it tends to have little significance. In ideal conditions traders want the wick length to be several times longer than the body of the candle. The longer the candle, the more buyers were able to drive price back up and the stronger the bullish signal this candle provides.

Although traders will usually wait for confirmation the next day, look for buying opportunities to come.

Nifty has shown all the possibility of reversal formation form a low of 5009 which was formed today in panic in morning selling of Telecom Stocks.

I have given a description of Hammer Formation and possiblity of trade on Bullish side.

Now 5 EMA @6075 is the main hurdle for trend to turn to bullish side.RSI is shoing positivr divergence and STOCH is in oversold zone.Recipe for a bullish chart all we need to price to move up 6075 and sustain and close above it

Above 6075 Tgt 6106 and 6179

RELIANCE SMALL CAP FUND - SIP WOULD DO WONDERS

AGGRESSIVE FUND FOR HIGH RISK HIGH RETURN INVESTOR

Reliance Mutual Fund have launched an aggressive fund focussing purely on Small Caps aptly named "Reliance Small Cap Fund".

The Fund will be managed by Mr.Sunil Singhania who has had a great success with Reliance Growth Fund.

Small Caps are largely under-researched and the key is to identify companies which can become Large Caps.

Reliance Small Cap Fund will be investing in companies which have a market cap between Rs.170cr to Rs.2200cr.

The Fund will aim to invest in Entry Level Companies which however have a good quality Business Model and has the ability to scale up itself to become Large Cap.

The notable thing is that unlike with their NFOs, this time Reliance have had a low key exposure of this Reliance Small Cap Fund in terms of ads, hoardings. Mr.Shailesh Raj Bhan, Fund Manager of Reliance equity Opportunities Fund said, the low profile was intentional and they were looking at a size of around 500 crore for this fund.

Mr.Shailesh Raj Bhan also indicated they would be looking at a portfolio of around 50-60 companies.

INVESTMENT APPROACH :

The Fund would be doing following up a purely "Bottom Up" Approach and would be less likely to look at Macro View foccussing more on micro view.

COMMENTS & RECOMMENDATION :

Small Caps are very volatile., they tend to rise more than the rest of market in a bull market and likewise fall steeper than the rest in the Bear Market.

Timing your entry and exit from these small caps is imperative and essential to make maximum profit.

DSPBR Micro Cap Fund has done exceedingly well but most probably its close ended nature helped the fund hide the fact of the volatility it had to face.

Sister Reliance Regular Savings Fund-Equity has about 18% exposure to Small Caps and has done exceedingly well even in Bear Market of 2008.

The most notable thing about Small Caps is this, The BSE Small Cap fund has outperformed the Sensex and BSE Mid Cap by a wide margin of more than a huge huge 20% over a 6 year period. That sums up the issue. Yes, Small caps are volatile but they have the potential to become the next multi-baggers if you spot the right one. Who better than the Reliance Star Fund Manager, Mr.Sunil Singhania to do this for you??

Although, Small Caps tend to be very volatile, they can give your portfolio a much needed 'alpha' adding to the overall returns. The volatility associated with small caps tend to get evened out over a period of time. SIP Investment would be the BEST method to maximize your returns from this Fund.

DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE WHO CAN DIGEST HIGH VOLATILITY.

RECOMMEND INVESTMENT THROUGH SIPS AND/OR INVESTING A SMALL SUM AT REGULAR INTERVALS.

Caveat : Have a minimum of 3 years time frame and Do not have more than 10% exposure to this Fund, even if you are an Aggressive Investor.

Note: Exit load is quite at 2% for redemption before one year., which however, is actually, is beneficial and motivates to stay invested for longer period.