Dwaipayan Bose Articles

My childhood friend Nikhil had one lament for a long time. He said while there are many restaurants serving European cuisine in India, unfortunately there are not many options for vegetarians as far as European cuisine is concerned. His dream was to...

Balanced funds are attractive investment options for first time mutual fund investors and investors with moderate risk tolerance, especially during periods of high volatility. In fact over the last year balanced funds on an average have...

Debt mutual funds offer a large variety of products that cater to a wide spectrum of investment needs, risk profiles and interest rate scenarios. While bank fixed deposit is almost an automatic choice for most retail investors as far as short...

ICICI Prudential Long Term Equity Fund (Tax Saving) has been one of the top performing Equity Linked Savings Schemes (ELSS) over the last 15 years. If you had invested Rs. 5,000 monthly in ICICI Prudential Long Term Equity Fund...

There are now quite a few equity mutual funds in the market with Funds with concentrated or focused portfolios, some of which have been doing quite well also. Some investors may ask whether the fund manager can achieve the...

If you had invested Rs. 1 lac ICICI Prudential Value Discovery Fund NFO 11 years ago, the value of your investment on December 4 2015 would be Rs. 11 lacs. This implies the fund has given 11 times returns in the last 11 years. Very few...

Over the last 15 years, the frontline benchmark equity index Nifty has grown about 5.8 times. Over the same period, stocks like HDFC bank and Asian Paints grew by 50 to 60 times. The two companies mentioned are just examples. If you had...

Balanced funds are excellent investment option for investors with moderate risk tolerance, since they can generate excellent returns for the investors with limited downside risks. The other major advantage of balanced funds is the...

Market cycles are realities that all equity investors have to live with. Over the past 15 years, we had three bear market cycles. Some economists are of the opinion that market cycles will get shorter in the future. However, irrespective of...

In times of high equity market volatility, such as the one we are seeing right now, fluctuations in their asset values can be stressful for investors with moderate risk appetite or first time equity investors. However, as discussed many times in our blog, over a long investment horizon, no...