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Diversified equity mutual funds are the most popular category of mutual funds among retail investors. Diversified equity funds invest in companies across industry sectors and market capitalization segments. These funds, also known as Flexicap or...

ICICI Prudential Exports and Other Services Fund is relatively less well known compared to the more popular funds from ICICI Prudential and other fund houses, but the long term performance of this fund has been nothing short of...

In the bull market years of 2006 and 2007 many investors gravitated to infrastructure mutual funds in the hope of getting extraordinarily high returns in a very short time. In fact, infrastructure funds did give outstanding returns during those years...

In the month of February 2016, the Government announced new small savings scheme rules, which has come into effect from April 1, 2016. Under the new rules, investors in small savings schemes like Public Provident Fund, National Savings Certificates...

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...

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...

Infrastructure funds, which have been the biggest laggards in the last five years, are now making a strong comeback. Infrastructure sector funds, as a category, have given nearly 65% returns in the last year...

With improving sentiments in Indian and Global equity markets, the Sensex and Nifty have surged to their historical highs in the past few weeks. With improvements in current account deficit and the inflation...

DSP BlackRock Micro Cap Fund has been the best performing mid and small cap fund for several years now. A र 1 lakh investment in the fund made 5 years back would have grown to र 3.1 lakhs. It is no surprise that, this fund featured at the very top our...

The new government on Thursday unveiled its first budget of structural reforms aimed at reviving growth, developing Infrastructure and thus winning praise from investors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said he would...