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Small cap mutual funds category attracts investors' interest from time to time. Investors usually prefer to stay away from small caps in volatile markets, but get interested in this category in bull markets. Small cap funds category has been one of the best performing equity mutual fund categories in the last one year...

In the first part of this two part series, How to plan for your retirement: Part 1, we had discussed why retirement planning is important and how much you need to save / invest in order to meet your retirement goal. In this second and final part, we will discuss how mutual funds can help you meet your retirement goal. Before we get into the nitty gritties of the topic...

Multicap mutual funds are diversified equity mutual fund schemes which invest across market cap segments i.e. large cap, midcap and small caps. Multicap funds are among the most diversified among all equity funds because they are not only diversified across industry sectors, but also across market cap segments. Prior to September...

After the outbreak of the first wave of COVID-19 the Reserve Bank of India pumped massive amount of liquidity in the financial system, to support the economy. As a result the yields of short term debt and money market instruments have remained low. As per CRISIL, the yields of Commercial Papers and Certificates...

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) have been rising in popularity in India over the last several years. In the last 3 years, assets under management (AUM) in ETFs (including Gold ETFs) have multiplied by nearly 4 times growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 53% (as on 31^st January 2022), as per AMFI. Today...

SBI mutual fund will shortly be in launching a New Fund Offer (NFO) for a multicap equity fund, SBI Multicap Equity Fund. The NFO launches on February 14 and closes on February 28, 2022. Even though multicap funds were very popular, there are currently not that many multicap funds after SEBI made changes in its...

We are in the month of February and the deadline for doing your tax planning for this financial year’s investments is drawing nearer. If have not done your tax planning for Assessment Year 2022-23 (FY 2021-22), then you should do it now. The last date for making tax saving investments for AY 2022-23 is 31st March 2022. Section...

Nippon India Mutual Fund has launched a Vintage Funds Offer for 3 of its equity mutual fund schemes, Nippon India Growth Fund, Nippon India Power and Infra Fund and Nippon India Multicap Fund. All three schemes have long term track record of wealth creation across multiple market cycles. These schemes have multiplied...

Blue chip stocks are very large corporations with strong nationwide or even global reputations. Based on market capitalization, they are the largest of the large cap stocks. A blue chip fund invests primarily in blue chip stocks. As per SEBI’s categorization of mutual fund schemes, blue chip funds are large cap funds...

SBI Mutual Fund launched SBI Balanced Advantage Fund last year in August. The scheme manages its asset allocation dynamically based on valuations and some other parameters. SEBI does not have asset allocation upper and lower limits for dynamic asset allocation funds or balanced advantage funds. In other words...