Whether mutual fund will give daily earnings like share ?
Yes, Mutual Funds declare daily NAV (Net Asset Value) You can see the NAVs of Mutual funds in the next day news papers, or online same day after 3.30pm. But, for buying or selling Mutual Fund the NAv of day of application proccessed is taken into account. mutual Fund Earnings can be taken into 2 types: 1. Increase in NAV 2. Dividents If you are buying Mutual fund of any on-going scheme you can have past records of NAV increase % and Dividend %. and if you are investing in NFO, you can only judge it by MF company, and fund MAnger’s profoile published in the offer document. they may also give past performance of same company’s similar funds. About Return time: You should be patient in this volatile market situation long term investment in MF will definitly give you better returns. (wait atleast till your gain % are quite higher than your entry load+exit load). About dividend return, you can select divident plans such as Divident re-investment, Yearly /Half Yearly/Quarterly/ Monthly Divid