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SIP is a disciplined way of investing from your regular savings to accumulate corpuses for your long term goals. However, a severe market crash can erode considerable amount of wealth accumulated over several years through SIP. In this two part blog post, we are discussing how you can protect your wealth created by Mutual Fund SIPs...

Unlike the old days, in the modern times there are many an occasions when your teenager child may need to travel without the parents. Inter-school or inter-college competitions, trekking on the hills, education summits, youth conferences or simply...

About less than a decade ago, buying and selling a product online was quite unthinkable. However, in today’s era where e-Tailing is more popular with the youth than retailing, CDs shops and bookstores are shutting down by the dozens, screen...

Sometimes investors are confused with the variety of options in mutual funds. These options are designed to meet the different needs of the investors with different risk profiles and financial objectives. Mutual fund...

In this article we will review the Nippon India Vision Fund (Gr). If you had started Rs 10,000/- monthly SIP in Nippon India Vision Fund (Gr) at its inception, it would have grown to a whopping Rs 9.33 Crores with a cumulative invested amount of Rs 34.2 Lakhs only. This fund was started in October 1995 and over the years...

Term insurance policies are becoming increasingly popular in India, and for a very good reason. Yet a large number of people still go for traditional plans like endowment plans or money back plans. The appeal of...

The 20s are the most exciting decade of your life, but it helps if they are tinged with responsible fiscal behaviour. Most people who are about to graduate from college can barely contain their excitement. They are in the first years of the swinging...

If you had invested र 10 Lacs in the NFO of ICICI Prudential Dynamic in the month of October 2002 and withdrawn र 8,000 per month from November 2003 then the current value of your investment would have been र 1.46 Crores even after withdrawing...

Gilt fund investors are sure to be disappointed with returns in the last 3 to 6 months. While 2014 was a fantastic year for investors in long term gilt funds with returns average category returns of more than 15%, 2015 was lot more volatile despite a...

I read a quote once which stayed on with me and even now inspires me to travel. It said, ‘The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page’. Inspiring and motivating, the quote combined my passion for reading and travelling in one and...