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When we talk about savings bank, we remember of an account when we were growing up and our parents helped us open one in the same bank where they maintained their account. All of us see our savings bank account as an account...

In its last monetary policy review on August 5 the RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at 8%, as was widely expected. Governor Rajan reiterated the central bank’s commitment to bringing down inflation, signalling...

LIC Mutual Fund Unit Linked Insurance Scheme is an investment cum insurance product, which offers investments in equity oriented hybrid asset class along with life insurance cover. Launched in 1989, the Unit Linked Insurance Scheme is one...

In the last 3 years, SBI Magnum Equity Fund has given around 18% annualized returns versus 12% annualized Nifty returns. This large cap fund underperformed slightly in 2013 but bounced back strongly in 2014 and has been in the top 2 performance...

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 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...

The stock market is trading at its record high despite bouts of high volatility from time to time. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been net sellers on an YTD basis in 2024. There are multiple factors at play. FIIs are shifting their emerging market allocations from India to China because from their...

The equity market has been challenging for the last 6 to 9 months due to variety of concerns e.g. spread of Omicron, high commodity prices, trajectory of interest rates, the War in Ukraine, slowdown in Chinese economy etc. Over the last 6 months, the Nifty 50 is down nearly 12%, while the broader market, particularly...

Mutual fund investors often come across the term "value investing". While value investing is very a popular concept in the investment world, it is not very well understood in the context of mutual funds, especially here...

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...