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Taking a home loan has become an essential part of buying a home in today’s straitened times. Real estate is prohibitively expensive in India, and most buyers have to take apply for a home loan to realise their house purchase dream...

We know about the three mantras of the financial advisory sales. Referrals, referrals and referrals. It is a tried and tested method of tapping your network for qualified sales prospects. But if you want to grow your...

Cricket and the art of fund management have some similarities. Thus, it is interesting to ponder as to why we still remember great cricketers and fund managers who achieved star status in their heyday...

In our previous article on life insurance, we had discussed how to determine how much life insurance cover you need. Once you have determined how much cover you need the next question is which life insurance...

In our past few fund reviews, we have analysed some top performing mid-cap funds. As part of our mid-cap series, in this article we will review a top performer in terms of long term track record. Sundaram Select...

In the first part of this post, Should you invest in ULIPs, we had discussed that Unit Linked Insurance Plans, popularly known as ULIPs, are now much better products than what they were before 2010. The IRDA regulations with respect to ULIPs in 2010...

In a previous article, we have discussed why term plans are best choices in life insurance (please refer to our article Taking term plan can be a smart Insurance choice). A term plan is the purest form of insurance...

The 67th year of Independence begins. One cannot help but continuously question the various aspects of independence. How independent are we as citizens? But even before that the question we need to ask...

In the last 2 articles in this series we had discussed that IT and Healthcare sector funds had outperformed the market over the last one to two year periods. In this article, we turn our attention to Banking...

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...