Dwaipayan Bose Articles

If you invested र 1 lac in Eicher Motors stock 10 years back, can you guess what your stock holding will be worth today? If you invested in Eicher Motors 10 years back and have been holding those shares till today, the value of your र 1 lac investment today...

Birla Sun Life India Gennext Fund is relatively less well known mutual fund scheme with an AUM base of just around र 360 crores. However, this fund is among the top mutual funds in terms of wealth creation for investors over the last 10 years. If you started a...

Interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are usually good for the economy. It reduces the borrowing costs of business, which in turn leads to incremental economic activity, higher employment rates and higher GDP growth. The stock and...

The last one year has been very difficult for equity markets. Though weakness was seen across the breadth of the market, the large cap market segment saw the biggest decline. In the last one year while the S&P CNX 500 index fell by 11%, the Nifty...

Have you wondered why many mutual fund houses have multiple products with very similar investment objectives and strategies? When we ask the fund houses, why they have two or more very similar products, they try to explain the differences between...

In the first part of this post, Should you invest in ULIPs, we had discussed that Unit Linked Insurance Plans, popularly known as ULIPs, are now much better products than what they were before 2010. The IRDA regulations with respect to ULIPs in 2010...

A few months back I attended a dinner party at an ex-colleague’s place in Gurgaon. One of the invitees to the party was a chartered accountant cum financial planner, who runs a very successful tax and financial advisory practice in the National Capital...

Balanced Mutual Funds are hybrid equity oriented mutual fund schemes. These funds usually invest 65 – 75% of their portfolio in equity securities and the remaining portion in debt or money market securities. The hybrid portfolio moderates the fund volatility...

If you had invested Rs. 1 lac in DSP BlackRock Opportunities Fund at the time of its inception (NFO) in the year 2000 the value of your investment today would be Rs. 14 lacs. The performance of this diversified equity fund in the recent years has also...

For debt mutual fund investors with a long term investment horizon, dynamic bond funds are good investment options. While these funds are subject to interest rate risk, over a 3 year investment horizon these funds can give excellent returns. In fact, if you...