Best short-term investment options in India – Everything you need to know

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Best short-term investment options in India – Everything you need to know

When it comes to investment options in India, you can be spoilt for choice. Fixed-income instruments, market-linked avenues, long-term plans, short-term plans, alternate investment avenues– you name it, and you can find it. It thus becomes important to know all your options based on your risk profile to create a portfolio that is well-diversified, ensuring less risk and more returns. The plethora of investment avenues helps you plan a diversified portfolio based on:  Your investment goals  Your risk appetite  Overall investment horizon A combination of these three factors helps in picking suitable investment avenues. Investment goals are your financial goals for which you accumulate a corpus. Risk appetite means your financial capability to take risks. This determines whether you should go with market-linked investment avenues or not. Lastly, the investment horizon refers to the period for which you hold the investment. It can be divided into three main segments: Short-term investment horizon, which includes a period from as low as 1 day to as high as 2-3 years.


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