Pradip Chakrabarty Articles

Diversified equity mutual funds are the most preferred category of equity funds by investors. Also known as multi-cap or flexi-cap, these funds invest across companies and sectors with varied market capitalization. That simply means, a diversified equity...

In our earlier posts on SWPs (Systematic withdrawal plan), we discussed how SWPs from Balanced Mutual Fund schemes could be a very good option for investors looking for regular returns from their investments post retirement etc. The fund we will...

In our last three posts on this SWP series, we found how SWP from ICICI Prudential Balanced Fund, Reliance Regular Savings Fund Balanced option and Birla Sun Life Balanced 95 Fund were good options if you were looking for regular returns by using...

In our last two posts on this series we discussed how SWP from ICICI Prudential Balanced Fund and Reliance Regular Savings Fund Balanced option were proved to be good options if one was looking for regular returns by using the SWP method...

In our last post on this series we discussed how SWP from ICICI Prudential Balanced Fund was proved to be a good option if one was looking for regular returns by using the SWP method. Today we will analyze how the same worked for Reliance Regular...

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 in debt or money market instruments. The hybrid portfolio moderates the fund volatility to a...

In our last few posts in this series we had discussed how SIPs in best diversified equity funds, best mid and small cap funds, best ELSS Funds, best thematic funds and best large cap funds have created wealth for the investors in the long term...

If you had invested र 10 Lacs in the NFO of DSP BlackRock Top 100 Equity Fund – Regular plan - Growth, 13 years back on the launch date of March 03, 2003 and started withdrawing र 8,000 per month after one year then the current value...

If you had invested र 10 Lacs in the NFO of ICICI Prudential Value Discovery Fund – Regular Growth, 12 years back on the launch date of August 16, 2004 and started withdrawing र 8,000 per month after one year then the current value of your...

If you had invested र 10 Lacs in the NFO of Sundaram Select Midcap - Growth, 14 years back (launch date July 31, 2002) and started withdrawing र 8,000 per month after one year then the current value of your investment would have been र 2.96...