REGIONAL MUTUAL FUNDS-

The Regional Mutual Fund as the name suggests, is a special type of mutual fund, wherein the investment made in such funds are confined to the securities from a specified geography. In other words, the investments made in the Regional Mutual Fund are dependent on the geographical origin of the fund. The most important feature of this fund is that it invests in portfolio of companies operating in a particular geographical area. The main objective of investing in the Regional Mutual Funds is to take leverage of the geographical growth of that particular area. These funds are created on regions which are supposed to undergo tremendous modernization. The Regional Mutual Funds picks up securities that are not confined to geographical criteria.

INDEXED FUNDS-

The Index funds are those types of funds which accumulates stocks of each and every company that make up a particular index. The performance of the Index fund thus depends on the performance of that particular index. Investments in Index funds are cheaper and are regarded as passive form of investments. Another advantage of investing in the Index funds is that their values are so high that most of the other funds fail to supersede the value of the Index funds. The most popular type of Index funds is the Standard & Poor’s 500. Investments in index funds are subject to income tax exemptions.

CONCLUSIONS:-

There are several types of mutual funds in India; investors are so many options to invest in the fund which are preferable to them.

Reference:

Mutual fund India .com

AMFI

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