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Healthcare as a theme has tremendous growth potential and includes businesses in diagnostics, hospitals, medical equipment, specialty chemicals, insurance, and other allied sub sectors. Investment into healthcare themed funds allows investors to participate in the growth potential of this...

According to SEBI mandate, Aggressive Hybrid Funds invest 65-80% of their funds in equity and equity related instruments while the remaining 20- 35% is invested in debt and money market instruments. This ensures long term capital appreciation due to the equity exposure coupled with downside protection offered by...

Asset allocation is the diversification of funds across various asset classes like equity, debt, commodities etc. with the objective of balancing the risks with returns. Asset allocation has traditionally been looked at as allocating investment between equity, and debt. In recent months, multi...

Asset allocation is important in achieving your financial goals, whether in bull market or bear market. Many investors ignore asset allocation when the market is favourable but this can be harmful to their financial interests in the long run because they may take more risks than warranted by their risk profiles and financial goals. The stock market...

A strong rally in the equity markets witnessed the Nifty 50 index crossing the historic 20,000 levels in September 2023. Since mid-September, we saw investors booking profits and the Nifty correcting nearly 700 points (as on October 20, 2023) from its historic all-time high. Since then the market has recovered...

We have reviewed Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund, a large and midcap equity fund from Principal Mutual Fund stable, a number of times in the last few years. In our usual fund reviews, we look at a performance of a scheme across various market conditions, performance versus benchmark and peers, portfolio composition etc. In this post, we...

Balanced Advantage Funds dynamically rebalance their asset allocation between equity and debt based on a dynamic asset allocation model. If equity valuations are low, then dynamic asset allocation model will increase asset allocation to equity and reduce allocation to debt. If equity valuations are high, then the model will reduce allocation...

Nippon India Mutual Fund has launched two index funds NFOs – Nippon India Nifty Bank Index Fund and Nippon India Nifty IT Index Fund. Nippon India Nifty Bank Index Fund is a passive fund which will track the Nifty Bank Index, while the IT fund is also a passive fund which will track the Nifty IT index. Both the NFOs opened for subscription...

Taiwan is one of the fastest growing emerging markets in the world (source: Bloomberg, 2021 GDP forecast). With a population of just around 23 million, Taiwan's nominal GDP stood at USD 669 billion (2020). Taiwan's per capita GDP is USD 28,371 (source: World Bank, 2020) which is nearly thrice of China’s per capita...

Global financial markets have been volatile over the past 6 months due to high inflation. Bond yields have been rising for the nearly 18 months and the 10 year Government Bond yield is at a 3 year high now (as on 6^th June 2022). Bond prices have an inverse relationship with interest rate / yield changes i.e. prices go down...