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Equity Savings Funds are equity oriented hybrid funds whose risk profiles are more moderate (lower risk) than the traditional balanced funds and yet they enjoy the tax advantage of balanced funds. Balanced Funds allocate at least 65% of their assets...

Growing up is a lot of fun when you’re young but it doesn’t seem so wonderful when you are an adult with responsibilities! You start working and earning an income in your early 20s, and you become responsible for running your home. A few years later...

From working with financial advisors for many years, I have observed many justifications for spending the majority of their workday in the office. Here are six of them...

Indian equity markets are rallying. The Nifty closed at an all time high of 7,796 on July 23. In the last 6 months Nifty gained 22.9%, while the Sensex gained 22.3%. Even the broader markets have performed very...

There are several reasons to bullish about equity markets this Diwali. Post the state elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, the Government has announced some key policy measures. The long overdue diesel...

It is an approach to investing in which the investor takes position about the market in a direction opposite to the prevailing market trend. So, if the market is moving upward, the contrarian investor would take the...

Now it is time to live life king size with no more a list of goals to fulfill. Your life is going to be more than just a list of goals that has to be ticked off. No more living from one goal to another. You can pursue all hobbies that...

The dismay and the dejection at the face of an inability to convert a prospect to a client gets written at large in a financial services products advisor's face, which takes a toll on the entire day. Much to the chagrin...

10,000 crore AUM is an important landmark for equity mutual fund schemes and Mirae Asset India Equity Fund has recently crossed this landmark. Popularity of this fund among Indian mutual fund investors comes on back of strong performance...

This is sometimes an easy thing to overlook, but often the reason why our tasks take longer than we estimate. We allow ourselves to be distracted by what's around us and next thing you know you've started...