Pradip Chakrabarty Articles

Mutual Fund Systematic Investment Plans or SIPs were introduced in India way back in 1993 by Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund. Since then investing through SIPs have come a long way and it is now the preferred way of investing in mutual...

SBI Magnum Multicap Fund was launched 12 years back in September 2005. If you had invested Rs 100,000 in the scheme when it was launched, then its investment value now would have been around Rs 4.56 lakhs. The fund gave absolute return of...

Balanced Funds are hybrid equity oriented mutual funds. Minimum equity allocation in these funds is 65% and the rest in debt instruments. Being an equity oriented mutual fund, Balanced Funds enjoy equity taxation. Apart from the long term capital gains...

When it comes to digital banking in India, the industry in India was lagging behind many developing nations until recently. That was because of legacy systems, huge costs of running branches, and out-dated technology that could notbe upgraded and...

Mutual Fund Systematic Investment Plans or SIPs were introduced in India way back in 1993 by Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund. Since then investing through SIPs have come a long way according to data provided by Association of Mutual Funds in India...

As you know investments in equity or equity oriented mutual funds are suitable to investors with moderately high to high risk profile. Within the equity funds categories, mid & small cap funds and sectoral funds have the highest risk. However, if you can...

The last one year has been very good for mid and small cap funds. Mid and small cap funds have generated significantly superior returns relative to large cap and diversified equity funds categories over the last 1, 3, 5 and even 10 year periods, as can be...

Balanced Funds have been around in Indian Mutual Industry for nearly 25 years now. Balanced funds are essentially hybrid funds with both debt and equity in its portfolio to balance the risk. The Balanced fund portfolios typically hold up to 65-70% of its...

The true meaning of the word Life Insurance made sense to me when my neighbour Raghu suddenly expired one morning. Raghu met with a sudden heart attack and declared dead on arrival at hospital. His family had no clues as to what to do in a...

In the first part of this series Top 8 diversified equity mutual funds to invest in 2017, we discussed how we have selected the top funds as given in the list below. We also discussed the key benefits of investing in diversified equity mutual funds...