Dwaipayan Bose Articles

Referral is a tried and tested client acquisition channel in the financial advisory business. Some mutual fund distributors have been very successful in growing their business through referrals, while others have not been able to achieve any...

ICICI Prudential MIP 25 has been one of the most consistent mutual fund Monthly Income Plans (MIPs) over the last 5 years. The fund has consistently been in the top two quartiles every year over the last 5 years (please see the Most Consistent Debt...

SBI Savings Fund is an ultra-short term debt fund which offers instant redemption. Ultra-short term debt funds are money market mutual fund schemes, which invest in very short term fixed income securities like commercial paper, certificate of deposits...

The Reliance CPSE ETF was over-subscribed 4 times first day. As per a Business Today report, the anchor investors put in Rs 6,000 versus Rs 1,500 crores reserved for them. For the benefit of our readers, anchor investors are institutional investors who...

If you had started a monthly Systematic Investment Plan of र 10,000 in Reliance Tax Saver Fund 10 years back, by now you would have accumulated a corpus of nearly र 28.51 Lakhs with a cumulative investment of just र 12 lacs. In fact Reliance Tax Saver...

In its latest mutual fund ranking (September 2016), CRISIL has ranked DSP Black Rock Focus 25 Fund among the best performing large cap equity mutual fund schemes (Rank 1). Some large cap funds with concentrated or focused portfolios...

In our post, Importance of Financial Planning, we discussed how financial planning can help you meet your short term, medium term and long term financial goals. While you can engage a professional financial planner or advisor to prepare your...

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...