If you are a DIY investor, then avoid channels like Bank , agent etc.. as they will sell Regular mutual funds which have slightly higher expense ratio than direct mutual funds.
For direct mutual fund, there are so many platform you can use like kuvera, mfcentral, Groww (lot more...
To be honest for MF investment which is for longer period > 10 Years, you can consider maximum CAGR (Lumpsum mode) / XIRR (SIP mode) as 12 %. Based on this rate calculate your Future Value and do the required calculation. While calculating Future value don't consider more CAGR as...
As you have longer duration about 10-15 years and you want medium risk, you can diversify your portfolio between 5-6 funds and invest amount within that. You might expect return like 10-15% (NOT GURANTEED, DEPENDS ON MARKET CONDITION)
- Plan to pre pay a certain percentage of home loan in every financial year (which doesn't eat pre payment charge from my pocket). This will reduce my loan tenure drastically. To accumulate, i would use a debt fund.
@hitman047 Even for debt fund is SIP is the recommended route?
What i thought is a debt fund can be used to save fund (even as lamps m) to avoid market volatility and STP from that to required equity MF will do benefit.