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Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund has just completed 10 years since launch. If you had invested Rs 1 Lakh in this scheme at the time of its NFO, your investment would have grown to Rs 10 Lakhs. In compounded annual growth rate (CAGR)...

I started my investment journey in April or May 1998. I had a lot of interest in the stock market going back to my university days, but the beginning of my investment journey was one of the worst times for the stock market...

One of my friends, a banker and a long time mutual fund investor, always spreads his mutual fund SIPs over 3 – 4 dates in a month. I, on the other hand, have simply selected one date, at the start of the month for my mutual fund...

The stock market has been quite volatile this year. In the last 2 months or so, Nifty has declined by around 10%. Such big declines in the past may have triggered off panic selling by retail investors but mutual fund SIP inflows have...

Zone of support is the price zone from where stocks bounce back after falling. Traders usually like to buy stocks in this zone. For Nifty – 50 this year so far, the 10,000 mark has formed a zone of support. Though the market has been...

We are in the middle of the festive season and this time of the year, as per Indian cultural tradition, is auspicious for buying Gold. India is the largest importer of Gold in the world, around 900 tons every year; primary end use of...

Conservative Hybrid Funds, formerly also popularly known as Monthly Income Plans, are a sub-category of hybrid mutual funds, which invest 10 – 25% of their assets in equity and equity related securities and the balance in debt securities...

An analysis of traffic to different sections (articles and different mutual fund research tools) of our website, advisorkhoj.com, provides us several interesting insights on investor preferences. Over a last couple of years we have seen...

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...