Investment Planning: Public Provident Fund vs Mutual Fund
5paisa Research Team
11th December 2022 - 10:28 am
Appropriate investment planning aids an individual to achieve their life goals and objectives.
In today’s world, investing has become a necessity, if you don’t plan your investments you might end in a financial crisis in future. In life ahead, any uncertainty might come and hit an individual’s life so in order to overcome such events smoothly one should adequately plan their insurance and investments.
Appropriate investment planning also aids an individual to achieve their life goals and objectives. There are lots of investment avenues available in the market in which individual can invest their capital. So many investment options can put an individual in a dilemma of where to invest.
Out of many investment avenues, we will look into the two major ones, such as Public Provident Fund and Mutual Fund. Public Provident Fund is a long-term investment tool whereas, Mutual Fund is a long-term, medium-term or short-term investment tool.
Let’s look at the difference between these two investment options:
|
Particulars |
Public Provident Fund |
Mutual Fund |
|
Investment type |
Public Provident Fund is a long term investment tool run by the government, which offers fixed and safe returns to their investors. |
Mutual funds are managed by fund managers, who offers their investor to reap maximum benefits by investing in instruments according to the mutual fund schemes |
|
Mode of investment |
Investors have to invest at least a minimum amount in order to keep account active. |
One can invest in mutual funds schemes through SIP or lumpsum. |
|
Minimum Investment Amount |
₹500 |
₹100 or ₹500 (for SIP) vary according to mutual fund. |
|
Returns |
Returns are fixed and safe guaranteed by the government. The prevailing rate of the Public Provident Fund is 7.1% (FY 2021-2022) |
Returns of mutual funds are market-linked and are based on the performance of the mutual fund. |
|
Maximum Investment Amount |
₹1,50,000 |
No upper limit |
|
Maturity Period |
15 years – you can extend the same by a block of 5 years |
There is no maturity period as such. Investors can hold for long-term or short-term as per their needs and risk exposure and investment horizon. |
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