Automatic Investment Plan

By: EconomyWatch   Date: 23 November 2010

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Automatic investment plan is an investment mechanism through which investors will be able to invest a small amount of money at regular intervals. It can alternatively called as systematic investment plan. Normally funds are automatically invested in a retirement or mutual fund account. This is done by way of deduction from the savings or checking account. Automatic investment plan also enables the investors to transfer a set of their amount electronically to another account at an assigned number of occurrences. Automatic investment plan can be regarded as an effective systematic mechanism as because these investments are of manageable size and investors will be able to save their money as well.


Some examples of automatic investment plan

Examples of automatic investment plan can be mutual fund contribution, stock, automatic withdrawal plan etc.


Some effective guidelines as recommended by economists

It is recommended that the investors should invest at a regular interval and this will protect their accounts from any sort of market fluctuations. Investors should purchase maximum shares when they observe that the prices are going low and they should purchase the minimum shares if it goes high. But the best way is to purchase shares when investors think them most capable.

Investors should analyze a lot before going for any investment and should opt for those, which have a uniform track record and benchmarks. This way investors will be able to instill a method of practice to save their investments.


The truth

It has been observed that inflation increases the prices of commodities and reduce the value of money. That is why investors should choose the best investment type to avoid the effect of inflation. In the long run the average price per unit can be lesser than the average market price of the fund and this will enable the investors to buy a higher amount of units at an average market price. This will improve the volatility.



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