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Consistent performance, in our view, should be most important selection criterion for mutual funds. While consistent performance is important for all categories of mutual funds, it is especially significant for long term debt funds (or income funds). This is...

The old idiom, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is the essence of diversification. While most of us understand the wisdom of this idiom, many of us do not realize its importance in financial planning. Many of our readers know that...

In our previous blog post on this topic, Why do we love gold: The economic value of gold, we had discussed the love for the Gold in our country. Despite several legislations aimed at reducing imports of foreign exchange guzzling...

The textbook definition of Net Asset Value is, the market value of all the securities held in a mutual fund scheme’s portfolio less the liabilities divided by the total number of units outstanding. From my student days, I rarely found textbook...

In the last blog post – Do you know how to select Debt funds: Understanding the risk - we discussed various types of risks that may be associated with investing in debt funds. We also discussed how the debt funds are much more predictable...

Over the past few months, I have come across a number of senior citizens, relatives, parents of friends, acquaintances etc., in weddings and other social occasions; their concerns were with falling interest rates of fixed deposits and...

Mutual Fund Systematic Investment Plans or SIPs were introduced in India way back in 1993 by Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund. Since then investing through SIPs have come a long way according to data provided by Association of Mutual Funds in India...

Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) are one of the most perplexing investment instruments. While most new investors are wary of them, a lot of seasoned investors too have struggled to get their SIP strategy right.So, before jumping on to...

As recent as a few months back, more than one person told me that they would not have invested in life insurance policies for tax saving if they knew more about the return potential of Equity Linked Savings Schemes (ELSS). Despite...

Thirty four years back, on a nice winter afternoon in Chennai, Sunil Gavaskar broke Don Bradman’s record of 29 test centuries. My school was closed for the winter break and I remember huddling in front of the radio (we did not have TV in our...