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Axis Flexi Cap Fund (formerly Axis Multi-cap Fund) completed 3 years in November 2020. 3 year performance period is usually a good horizon to evaluate the performance of a fund. The chart below shows the growth of Rs 10,000 in the scheme since its inception. You can see that the scheme was able to...

About one year back, I read a funny article in article written by Morgan Housel in the popular US investment journal The Motley Fool. It was about excessive use of certain jargons by investment experts and financial...

We are almost in the final month of the current tax assessment year. You can claim deductions of up to Rs 1.50 Lakhs from your taxable income by investing in schemes eligible under Section 80C of Income Tax Act 1961. In order to claim...

When we hear about Health Insurance, we think of an insurance plan which generally covers the cost of treatment when you are admitted in the hospital. The pay outs are made on actual expenses incurred in the hospital during the treatment period. These...

When we talk about retirement different sentiments arise in our minds. Some of us feel tensed about meeting the post retirement related expenses while some of us feel that retirement would set us free from the daily humdrum of working life. Retirement holds...

In the previous two articles in our life insurance series, we had discussed how to determine how much life insurance cover you need and how to choose a life insurance provider based on various metrics. Each of...

Kiyosaki's cash flow quadrant is an interesting one not only for its economic sense but because it reflects the values and mindset of every occupant in this quadrant who in turn make up the business world...

When life goes well, everything seems possible. No obstacle is too difficult to surmount, no challenge seems too big. But that is only when life goes well. When it doesn’t, the slightest difficulty assumes mammoth proportions. Every problem...

A few months back I attended a dinner party at an ex-colleague’s place in Gurgaon. One of the invitees to the party was a chartered accountant cum financial planner, who runs a very successful tax and financial advisory practice in the National Capital...

Mutual fund reclassification directive by SEBI has brought a lot of clarity about different types of mutual funds for investors. In our view, retail investors had little awareness about different types of debt mutual funds and were often confused...