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Unlike the old days, in the modern times there are many an occasions when your teenager child may need to travel without the parents. Inter-school or inter-college competitions, trekking on the hills, education summits, youth conferences or simply...

SBI Magnum Multicap Fund was launched 12 years back in September 2005. If you had invested Rs 100,000 in the scheme when it was launched, then its investment value now would have been around Rs 4.56 lakhs. The fund gave absolute return of...

Equity Mutual funds are the best choice for retail investors as far as creating long term wealth is concerned. This is simply because in the long term, equity mutual funds are the best options because equities as an asset class...

You will often come across blog posts like “Best mutual funds for SIPs”, “Best funds for investment in 2017”, “Best 5 tax saving funds” or “Best Mutual Funds in India “etc. While these blogs can be interesting reads for investors, they should be...

Balanced funds are attractive investment options for first time mutual fund investors and investors with moderate risk capacities. Balanced Funds are hybrid equity oriented funds with more than 65% allocation to equity and the balance to debt...

ICICI Prudential Multicap Fund was launched nearly 23 years back. If you invested Rs 10,000 in the scheme when it was launched, then its investment value now would be around Rs 2.62 lakhs. The performance of this scheme in the last 5 years has been...

The importance of rural India in the political and economic context of our country can never be overstated. The rural economy has always been a priority area for governments both in the centre and in the states since our independence. A good...

In the previous part of our post, Returns expectations from mutual funds: How Important is past performance, we discussed how to form future returns expectations, without relying on historical mutual fund...

Some investors may think that, since mutual funds invest in stocks, they are better off investing in stocks directly through a broker instead of investing in mutual funds. Some people cite fund expense ratios and lack of control over the investments as key...

I sometimes hear financial advisors saying that, this mutual fund will give 20% compounded annual returns, if held for the next 10 years. I ask them, on what basis are they making this projection and the answer that I often...