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When looking at different mutual funds for investments, you may have come across scheme names like ABC Growth Fund or XYZ Value Funds (ABC and XYZ being the AMC names). The scheme name itself, sometimes...

Over the past months or so, I have read a number of financial blogs, where debt fund investors have been advised to avoid and exit long term debt funds. The reason given by most authors was that, “the 10 year yield is at a multi...

If you follow the stock market during the earnings season, you will see that the headline numbers are usually the revenue and earnings (EPS) growth. In our post, Importance of EPS in Equity Investing, we had discussed that, the quality of EPS...

Behaviour of capital markets is, more often than not, unpredictable and economists have developed complex concepts, trying to explain the behaviour of capital markets. These concepts often leave retail investors confused...

Experts, philosophers and even our wise elders said the same thing – ‘Change is the only constant’. With time, everything changes and evolves. The same can also be said in the context of life insurance plans. Where earlier traditional plans like Whole Life...

In the first part of this article, we discussed that when you reach your early 40s, you are actually approaching the mid-point of your career after working for around 20 years. We also discussed how this stage of your life is important both from a...

When you reach your early 40s, you are approaching the mid-point of your career. You already worked for about twenty years, assuming you began your career in your early 20s and you have about 20 years to reach your retirement age. This...

Term Life Insurance – the most basic and yet the most effective and important insurance plan for everyone. Experts recommend it, critics heap praises on its importance and common men, who have benefitted from the plan swear by its...

Over the past few years, rising consumption demand and private sector capex spending in India have been two most popular investment themes among both foreign institutional investors and domestic fund managers. While we may have...

About twelve years back, when I had been working in the US for a few years and had most of my savings invested in fixed income, I was looking to work with a financial advisor to help me increase my asset allocation in equities. A...