Investing in equity mutual funds versus investing in shares: Which is better?

Hopefully, by now my columns have convinced you that most of your long-term investments should be in equity. The next question to be tackled is how to do this. Let’s look at this problem step by step. 

For those who have never invested in equity, it’s hard to know where to start. However, everyone knows there are two distinct ways of investing in equity. One is to choose stocks and buy and sell them yourself. The other is to invest through equity funds. The final goal is the same: to ben ..