Stock market: a review!
Stocks and mutual funds do have their own advantages and disadvantages. Although the advantages overweigh the disadvantages you have to give equal weight age to both these factors before taking a final decision.
Advantages of stocks market include
Greater long term performance because over the long term, stocks have given better returns than any other form of saving.
Stocks have found to be staying ahead of inflation, but this does not hold true for bonds or bank savings.
Once you buy a share of a particular company you become an owner of that company and give you an opportunity to participate in the growth of the economy.
If the company grows you grow too and this is good for the economy too.
Stocks are good option in case you want to stay in the market for a long term, and you can consider stocks as retirement vehicles to take care of you when you retire. The more time you stay invested, the better the returns.
Disadvantages include the following
The stock market is highly volatile and this is beyond the understanding of th common investor.
You need a lot of capital to buy a diverse portfolio and this cannot be beneficial to the common man.
There is a definite amount of money involved as commission and brokerage fees and account maintenance fees which has to be shelled out by the investor during the buying and selling of shares in the stock market.
Subscribe to our feed for latest updates on Stock market

