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We believe that every financial decision in our life should be based on some goal. The goal can be building a retirement nest egg, saving for your children’s college education or wedding, saving for a down-payment for property purchase...

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...

Mirae Asset Tax Saver Fund has emerged as the best performing tax saving mutual fund (ELSS) in the last 3 years (please see, Top Performing Mutual Funds (Trailing returns) - Equity: ELSS). If you had invested Rs 1 Lakh in the scheme three...

Two years back Wall Street Journal, the leading business and finance journal, published an article covering a study done by Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Robert Stambaugh and Lucian Taylor of...

In its latest mutual fund ranking (September 2016), CRISIL has ranked DSP Black Rock Focus 25 Fund among the best performing large cap equity mutual fund schemes (Rank 1). Some large cap funds with concentrated or focused portfolios...

The Indian economy is on the cusp of bouncing back from the crunching slowdown of the past few years, which offers excellent opportunity for long-term investors - With many comprehensive measures...

In our industry the popular Hindi adage "jo dikhta hai, wahi bikta hai" applies as well as it applies to any other. But unfortunately our industry is such that the rule has to be re-written. "Jo dikhta hai wahi bechna...

Regular Advisorkhoj blog readers know that, we give a lot of importance to mutual fund performance consistency. We have also developed a research tool, where our readers can see the top most consistent mutual funds in various product categories (please...

With the onset of volatility in the stock market earlier this year, dynamic asset allocation hybrid funds are in flavor with investors. As part of SEBI’s mutual fund re-classification initiative, dynamic asset allocation funds or balanced advantage...

In our previous articles in this series, we had discussed how Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) in equity mutual funds (large cap, diversified equity, small & midcap and ELSS) have created wealth for the...