Dwaipayan Bose Articles

Balanced funds have at least 65% asset allocation in equity or equity related securities and the remaining portion in fixed income securities. Fixed income (or debt) as an asset class is subject to less price volatility relative to equity and therefore...

Indian equity market saw a fantastic rally over the past 12 months. The rally in the last 6 months was quite spectacular (as can be seen in the Nifty 50 chart below); in the last 6 months the Nifty gave over 17% returns...

We see a tendency among many investors and financial advisors of preferring popular mutual funds. Funds become popular by dint of their past performance and are thereafter, sought after by investors. However, many a times, in this process...

Consistent performance, in our view, should be most important selection criterion for mutual funds. While consistent performance is important for all categories of mutual funds, it is especially significant for long term debt funds (or income funds). This is...

An investor who put Rs 1 lakh in Reliance Growth Fund in its NFO in October 1995 would now be sitting on more than Rs 1 Crore. The phenomenal wealth creation story of Reliance Growth Fund over the years is known to many mutual fund investors and...

An investment of Rs 1 lakh in DSP BlackRock Equity Fund New Fund Offer (NFO), 20 years back, would have grown to around Rs 44 lakhs today. The return of this diversified equity mutual fund scheme since inception is a great example of the...

In the last one year ICICI Prudential Top 100 fund gave more than 28% returns and is one of the best performing large cap funds. The nearly 20 year old fund has a great history of wealth creation giving almost 20% annualized returns since inception...

Investment awareness in India has improved over the past few years, but I am still surprised that many people instinctively associate equities with share trading. This association shapes the risk perception of people towards equity as an asset...

There are divergent views on this topic among financial advisors. A majority of financial advisors that I know think that social media has limited use in their businesses. However, I know some advisors have been very successful in leveraging...

FY 2017 was a good year for equity investors; the Nifty gave over 18% returns in the last one year and 12% returns in the last three months. The January to March quarter was stellar not just for the Indian equity market, but stock markets around the world...