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Start with Nifty 50 or nifty next 50 index funds from zerodha, navi, edelweiss, motilal as they are low cost index funds available.

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How much to invest? Whatever is left after your monthly expense, just invest. Only thing is how much to invest where. So if you are just starting, with zero saving. May be start with keeping 50% of saved money into FD, and other 50% into Equity (stocks/MF). After you have accumulated enough in FD (foreseeable expenses of next 1-2 yrs), then you can start putting entire saved amount in stock market.

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Hi folks,  I wanted to start my investment journey. I saw some posts which have reached 1 cr+ worth with hard work and discipline. Need help to understand where to invest which MF or  stocks basket...

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Hi folks,

I wanted to start my investment journey. I saw some posts which have reached 1 cr+ worth with hard work and discipline.
Need help to understand where to invest which MF or  stocks basket.
How to decide how much to invest?

How to plan investment?

How to plan investment?- Grapevine

Every month my salary gets credited I barely spend 20% of it the rest of it is just sitting around in my bank account it's already above 5L. I keep thinking of investing it in stocks/mf but it's a lot of work 😔 

What do you guys do with your salary, it would be great if you can share your investment strategy and how do you keep yourself motivated to stick to it

What should I do with my money

Hi folks, I have recently started investing after repeatedly being told to not hoard my money in savings, wanted to know how/how much other people invest. 
Current portfolio:
Equity: 2.5 L ( banking, fmcg, ETFs)
Mutual Funds: 1.1 L ( Navi Index fund - 10 k per month sip, SBI Liquid Fund - 10k per month)

I feel that I should invest more since i dont have any financial dependents on me right now, but dont know how much and dont want to  put my hard earned money somewhere I won’t see it ever.

Tc: 30 LPA
Exp: 2 years

Need Investment Advice

I have been investing regularly in MF and Stocks for the past 1.5 years. Recently for the past couple of days the market has been very bad and i have lost a lot of money. Should i invest more or should i hold. Need some investment suggestions. I have a lot of cash to spare roughly 40-45L what is the best investment should i make. Need suggestions from folks here. Would be great help as i wish to have a corpus of atleast 1cr in the next 2-3 years. I already have invested roughly 20L and have a cash of around 8-10L in my accounts plus the cash already mentioned.

It's been close to a year since I am earning a salary and this is what I do:
1. Invest a little less than 30% straight into MFs. I have three ongoing SIPs- small cap, flexicap and a Large + Midcap fund. (Planning to increase the amount further into these and not start a new sip)

2. Max out 80C by putting the entire limit in PPF, this is on top of what is by default deposited into EPF.

3. A little (inconsistently) into direct stocks as and when I find or get to know about a decent trade opportunity.

4. An LIC ULIP plan that my father made me subscribe to 🙂 (hopefully will end in a couple more years)

Tips from experienced folks will be much appreciated.😄

How do you invest your salary?

Hello good people of grapevine,

I have recently started my full-time job as a software engineer, and wanted to start my journey into investing.

After doing a bit of research, I feel SIPs in mutual funds is the way to go forward at this point. For now I want to start putting 20k into MF SIPs every month. I took a look at a few MFs which were very high risk but over a period of 3-5 years yielded great returns (50%) as well. While the low to moderate risk MFs yielded low returns (5%).

Though the risk is high, but seeing stable returns over a large period of time, how safe is it to invest in very high risk MFs and not incur losses?

Any other advice is also thoroughly appreciated
Thanks fellow grapeviners.

risk appetite: moderate to high
investment horizon: 5-10 years

Need help investing in high risk MFs

Hello,

I'm curious about your insights on smart investment strategies for the money I've earned through internships and other sources. How can I make the most of these earnings? I'm open to suggestions and keen on learning from your experiences. Thanks in advance for your valuable advice!

What's the Best Way to Invest Money Earned from Internship and Other Sources?

Hello community, 

Need help in the decision-making of the money that I have in my bank.
Currently, I have around 13lakhs in my bank account. I dont know what to do with that money. I dont feel safe in stocks and dont know any other options where to invest money.
Help would be genuinely appreciated 🙏.  Thank you

Age - 24.

Investment help

I am 22, and I'm going to be 23 this November. Just got into my 1 job. I am determined to invest about 45k per month. (Includes funds for short term goals too, like an international trip once a year) 

Out of which I am already investing 12.5k in ELSS funds. Now I am confused about what remaining portion of my amount should I invest in stocks vs other MFs. 

Please help me out here. 

A bit about myself. I am open to taking risks. Looking for long term investing.

Help me diversify my portfolio

Product Manager

Hi folks, 

Personally, I thought I should invest in the index fund. Because, I don't want to take the risk with this amount. 

But I would still like to know 2 things - 

1. Is the index fund fine? 
2. Is it the right time to invest in lumpsum Or should I do an SIP of 20k? 

Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks in advance :)

Where to invest Rs. 2 lacs right now?

We don’t know your risk profile, but your statement gave me a hint of conservative.  
  
 For a conservative investor in the current market situation, I will do 2 step investing. 
  
 1. Put 1.6/1.8L in arbitrage/liquid fund  
 2. Start monthly index investing with 20k 
  
 If I see 2.5% correction in index, I will move 60k in index from arbitrage/liquid. If index sees more than that, I will transfer rest of the amount to index.  
  
 The above method will preserve my capital & gains both.

Current mf portfolio (total invested = 10L) :
Axis small cap
Quant absolute
Hdfc equity savings
Axis blue chip
Sbi gold (just started)

Top performers are axis small cap and quant; also running an sip on them

Current stocks (1.3L ):
Mostly largecap (mostly in red)

The rest of the money is either in fds or in the Bank (significant amount)

I feel the equity portion of my investments is very less and I need to be a bit more aggressive on it right now since I've about 60% of my net worth in either fd or in Bank. I can probably do a 5L lump sum then an sip on the same if they continue to perform well.
Considering that please suggest some investment options

A few options I had in mind:
Us mutual funds
Chinese funds
Indian infrastructure funds
Reits

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