10 Common Mistakes Mutual Fund Investors Make (Without Realising It)
10 Common Mistakes Mutual Fund Investors Make (Without Realising It) Ravi has been investing for eight years. He has SIPs running in seven mutual funds, a decent corpus built up, and a habit of checking his portfolio value every few weeks. By most measures, he'd tell you he's doing fine. What he hasn't done in those eight years is sit down and ask whether these seven funds, taken together, actually make sense as one portfolio. That's the gap this article is about. Most mutual fund mistakes aren't about picking a "bad" fund. They're quieter than that — a fund added here, a SIP started there, a recommendation followed without much scrutiny — until the portfolio becomes something nobody quite designed. You can own genuinely good mutual funds and still have a portfolio that's working against you, simply because no one has looked at it as a whole. Below are ten mistakes that show up again and again in Indian investors' portfolios — not because pe...