Why you should quit dividend plans right now

[View this in your browser]( JULY 13, 2018 Dividends in mutual funds are a misleading, misnamed and misused feature. It's time for a big change Mutual fund dividends need to die. They should be abolished and replaced by specially designed withdrawal plans that investors can choose according to their needs. That sounds like a radical suggestion but actually, it's not. Because financially, there is already no such thing as dividends in mutual funds. What are called dividends are exactly what I'm suggesting--withdrawal plans. Except that currently, they are misnamed dividends and are arbitrarily structured by mutual funds to suit their own marketing needs. The so-called dividend in mutual fund serves no purpose except as an artificial and misleading marketing tool. Worse--starting this year, new taxation rules mean that equity fund dividends also lead to investors paying more tax than they should. If you have opted for the dividend option of a fund, you are almost certainly paying needless tax. [Read the rest of this article...]( [Facebook ]( [Twitter]( ) [LinkedIn ]( [Google+](valueresearchonline ) [VR Shop](?utm_source=2018-07-13-MutualFundInsight-No-Youtube&utm_content=Fri-1150&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Editors-Note) Copyright © 2017 Value Research India Pvt Ltd. All rights reserved. Please read our [Privacy Policy.]( 5, Commercial Complex, Chitra Vihar Delhi 110092 India This notification mail has been sent to you at {EMAIL} because you are a member of Value Research Online. [To unsubscribe, please click here.](