Mutual Funds Articles

Equity Savings Funds are equity oriented hybrid funds whose risk profiles are more moderate (lower risk) than the traditional balanced funds and yet they enjoy the tax advantage of balanced funds. Balanced Funds allocate at least 65% of their assets...

We believe that every financial decision in our life should be based on some goal. The goal can be building a retirement nest egg, saving for your children’s college education or wedding, saving for a down-payment for property purchase...

If you had invested in SBI Blue-chip Fund 3 years back, you would have made a tax free profit of nearly 75% till date (Dec 3, 2016). While we should acknowledge that, 2014 was a bumper year for the Indian stock market, 2015 / early 2016 was one of...

Equity Savings Funds are a relatively new mutual fund product category. These are equity oriented hybrid funds similar to balanced funds, but the risk profile of these funds are more moderate (lower risk) compared to balanced funds. Balanced Funds...

ICICI Prudential Value Series 1 and 2 were launched towards the end of 2013 as three year close ended schemes. With the benefit of hindsight, we can say that the timing of subscription to these Value Series schemes were just great. The equity market was...

I have said a number of times in my blog that, the world of investments has many nuances and our endeavour in Advisorkhoj is to make investors aware of these nuances. We often see financial advisors and media influencers making sweeping...

SBI Magnum Monthly Income Plan balances the need for capital safety with inflation beating returns. The fund achieves the balance by investing around 85% of its portfolio corpus in debt and money market, and around 15% in equity market. The fund has...

An asset allocation fund invests in a fixed or dynamic mix of three main asset classes, equity, debt and cash equivalents. In a fixed asset allocation fund, the asset allocation percentages of equity, debt and cash equivalents are fixed. The fund manager...

Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of United States of America, in his 1789 letter, shortly after the establishment of the US constitution, wrote that, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. Tax is one of...

Most investors who have invested in mutual funds through Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) over a long period of time vouch for the wonderful benefits of systematic investing. Even a small monthly auto debit from your bank account, which very often...