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Though the stock market had a great run for the last few years, this year the market has turned volatile. The Nifty 50 index has fallen around 10% in the last two months and more cuts in the near term are possible. The...

Aggressive Hybrid Funds are equity oriented hybrid mutual fund schemes, where minimum equity allocation is 65%. Aggressive Hybrid Funds enjoy equity taxation. Long term capital gains (investment tenure of more than 1 year) up to Rs 1 Lakh...

Dynamic Asset Allocation Funds are hybrid mutual fund schemes which manage their asset allocation between debt and equity based on market movements. When market movement is favourable to a particular asset class, these funds allocate a...

There is a famous Chinese curse that says “May we live in interesting times”, and as we look at the month gone by, this seems to be an understatement! Interestingly, for history watchers, September has frequently been a volatile...

We often get queries from investors, enquiring about best debt mutual funds. Some investors want stable income and low volatility in a rising interest rate scenario; accrual based short duration debt funds are suited for such investors. Some...

While awareness about exchange traded funds (ETFs) is quite low in India, these funds are gaining currency with investors over the last few years. In the last 5 years, the mutual fund industry assets under management (AUM) in...

After a few months of tranquility, volatility has returned to the stock market with full fervor. This month the Nifty has already fallen by 537 points and the possibility of the market extending its losses are quite high. For the past few...

Bank fixed deposits paying monthly interest or post office monthly income schemes (MIS) are the traditional investment choices of investors who needed regular income from their investments. However, with fall in interest rates...

Mutual Funds is a way of investing ones savings into a pool of funds that goes into various assets like equities, debt and gold etc. depending on the fund choice made by the investor. One can go for investing in equity...

The stock market has been quite volatile this year. February and March saw the Nifty – 50 fall more than 1,000 points. The market then stabilized and recovered, though there were some choppy periods. Volatility has again returned in...