What are the benefits of investing in Stocks?

Benefits of investing in stocks:

Investing in individual stocks gives you a higher level of control over your portfolio as you can enter and exit a stock at will, unlike a mutual fund.?Done properly you would be invested in fewer stocks than a typical mutual fund thus earning higher returns. Since you are in control, there are no additional overheads like fund manager fees. Finally, your decisions are not impacted by external factors as is the case in a Mutual Fund, e.g. redemption pressure, large inflows, fund manager exit, etc.

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