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In the last 5 years, Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip Fund has emerged as the best performer in the large and midcap equity funds segment (please see top performing large and midcap funds in our MF Research section). For the benefit of readers...

Principal Tax Savings Fund is one of the best performing equity linked savings schemes (ELSS) in the last 5 years. Section 80C of Income Tax Act 1961 allows tax payers to claim deduction of up to Rs 1.5 Lakhs by investing in mutual fund...

We Indians love a good bargain. Whether it is haggling with the vegetable seller or arguing with the cab or rickshaw driver about the shortest (and most economic) route, to booking air tickets and hotels for leisure or business travel, we are...

SBI Mutual Fund has launched its latest fund offering SBI-ETF Quality. The New Fund Offer (NFO) opened yesterday (November 26) and will close on December 3rd 2018. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are increasingly gaining currency with...

Reliance Mutual Fund has announced the third tranche of Further Funds Offer (FFO) for CPSE ETF. The CPSE ETF is an innovative initiative of the Government to disinvest its stake in select Public Sector companies through the exchange...

Aggressive Hybrid Funds are excellent investment options for investors who want capital appreciation in the long term, but do not have appetite for high volatility. These funds invest 65 to 80% of their asset corpus in equity and equity related...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Midcap and Small Cap equity mutual funds had a dream run from 2014 to 2017. During this period the Nifty Midcap 100 and Nifty Small Cap 100 indices grew at a CAGR of 28% each. Midcap and small cap mutual funds were able to give...

With rise in short term yields, the spread between the 2 year and 10 year Government bond yield has narrowed to just 12 bps, this is a good time to invest in debt mutual funds which invest in corporate bonds to lock in the high yields...

The not so secret recipe in the wealth creation is the “power of compounding”. The concept of compounding is simple. Power of compounding is nothing but interest earned on interest or profits earned on profits. The power of compounding over...