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Balanced funds have been around in India for nearly two decades and Tata Balanced Fund is one of the oldest schemes with one of the best track record of consistent performance in this category. Balanced funds...

Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund has just completed 10 years since launch. If you had invested Rs 1 Lakh in this scheme at the time of its NFO, your investment would have grown to Rs 10 Lakhs. In compounded annual growth rate (CAGR)...

In the beginning of your investment journey, you decided you are only going to rely on fixed income instruments to plan your financial future. After this decision, you seem to constantly get news of friends, family and relatives who have fared badly in the...

The strong Bull Run in the markets since the last 6 months has ensured good returns to investors. So, obviously, it is tempting for investors to book profit by selling their Equity Funds. Old timers are sceptical of the market's...

Advisors and experts often mention that equity mutual funds are idle for investments as they provide long term capital gains and some schemes especially the ones under ELSS category qualify for tax rebate under Section 80C. The dividends received...

In our previous article, How have top Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP) funds performed in the last 5 years: Part 1, we have seen how the top equity oriented ULIP funds have performed in the last 5 years. We had seen...

Avoid claiming small expenses: If you don't make a claim on your automobile or car insurance during a policy year, you will be entitled to a no-claim bonus (NCB). No claim bonus can be around 20%...

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...

Reliance Equity Opportunities Fund has been one of the consistent mutual fund performers in the last 10 years. Consistent performers deliver outperformance across different time-scales and market conditions. These funds not only help the investors...

Initial Public Offerings garnered huge interest from investors in 2017. More than Rs 70,000 Crores, a record amount, was raised from 38 offerings. Companies from 18 different sectors raised funds through IPOs in Fiscal Year to date, 2018. 2017 saw...