<p>One may invest in equity markets by following the two investment strategies – active or passive. While active investing requires careful stock selection in the investment portfolio, passive investing refers to mirroring the benchmark index entirely.</p>
Types of mutual fund schemes based on asset classes:
Sector funds are those mutual fund schemes, which carry the mandate to invest in the companies working in the specified sector predominantly. Such funds invest a minimum of 80% in equity instruments of that particular sector. For example, a banking fund can help you have a focused investment in banking stocks.
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<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ecb9fffa-7fff-73cc-1fde-67b0936a7092">How do you think equity markets will perform post-election results? Should one wait for the results before investing in equity?</span></p>
Historical data suggests that no asset class has been consistently a winner always. As such, having an optimum asset allocation is your key to long term wealth creation, as it allows the portfolio to perform across the market trends and economic cycles.
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Come elections, and the whole investing fraternity gets busy predicting the effect they might have on the stock market and how will they make the Sensex dwindle. The upcoming General Elections 2019 are not untouched by the speculation either, especially in the aftermath of the state elections when a lot of predictions went haywire.
