Advantages Investing in Mutual Funds
Advantages Investing in Mutual Funds, Mutual Fund under the Capital Market Law 95 years is a container used to collect funds from public investors to be invested in portfolio securities by the Investment Manager.
Thus, by the mutual funds there are three essential elements are interlinked with each other, namely:
1. collection of public funds
By performing the collection of funds from the pemodalnya allow investors-investors who have minimal funds can contribute to investing in securities.
2. investment funds in the form of portfolio securities
The definition of securities are securities, such as debt instruments, commercial papers, stocks, bonds, proof of debt, equity participation units, collective investment contracts, futures contracts on securities, and any derivatives of securities, both debt securities and the equity instruments, such as options and warrants. Portfolio of securities managed by mutual funds can be a collection of some types of securities (not just similar).
3. managed by investment managers
Investment manager is a party whose main business is managing a portfolio of securities to its customers or managing collective investment portfolio for a group of customers, not including insurance companies, pension funds, and banks that conduct their own business activities based on legislation and regulations.
Thus, mutual funds have a purchasing power far greater than if the investor invests his own.
Advantages Investing in Mutual Funds
1. Investment Diversification Reduce Risk
Mutual fund investment is a joint force. This is possible because the money the investor is then combined with one other investor-owned thereby creating buying power far greater than if an investor bought his own.
With the huge amount of capital that has combined these mutual funds can easily diversify investments.
Imagine if you had a million dollars and the money going to invest in the stock market. With this amount, it will be difficult for you to plant them in various types of capital market investment. To be able to continue to diversify investments, then you should have a substantial capital.
The existence of mutual funds allow you to diversify investments because mutual funds composed of a collection of stocks, bonds or other sekurits owned by a group of investors and managed by professional investment firms.
Have some type of stock will be less likely risk than if you have one type of stock. Similarly, if you have a wide variety of bonds and stocks, the risks will be borne by smaller when compared to having only a few stocks.
As an illustration, you have one lot of shares AAAA. While AAAA stock price falls, then the value of your investment will go down. In contrast, if you invest in stocks AAAA, BBBB and U.S. $ 100. When stock prices fell AAAA, BBBB shares and dollar against the rupiah exchange rate rises, then the loss of your investment will be smaller or nonexistent because of falling prices can be covered by the AAAA and BBBB rising dollar.

