How to Withdraw Money from Mutual Fund SIP through CAMS
A mutual fund is a professionally managed investment fund that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. These investors may be retail or institutional in nature.
Mutual funds have advantages and disadvantages compared to direct investing in individual securities. The primary advantages of mutual funds are that they provide economies of scale, a higher level of diversification, they provide liquidity, and they are managed by professional investors. On the negative side, investors in a mutual fund must pay various fees and expenses.
Primary structures of mutual funds include open-end funds, unit investment trusts, and closed-end funds. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are open-end funds or unit investment trusts that trade on an exchange. Some close-ended funds also resemble exchange-traded funds as they are traded on stock exchanges to improve their liquidity. Mutual funds are also classified by their principal investments as money market funds, bond or fixed-income funds, stock or equity funds, hybrid funds or other. Funds may also be categorized as index funds, which are passively managed funds that match the performance of an index or actively managed funds. Hedge funds are not mutual funds; hedge funds cannot be sold to the general public as they require huge investments. They are riskier than mutual funds and are subject to different government regulations.
Computer Age Management Services (CAMS) is a Mutual Fund Transfer Agency to the Indian Asset Management Companies with a share of 69.6% of the assets under management (AuM). The company was incorporated in the year 1988. CAMS is co-owned by – NSE Investments Limited, HDFC Bank group (a financial services conglomerate), Warburg Pincus LLC (a leading global private equity) and Acsys Investments Private Limited (the founding promoter) headquartered in Chennai, India.
