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When I began writing this post, I saw that the Nifty was below 7,200. For market observers 7,200 was an important level for the Nifty. Nifty below 7,200 means that it has corrected more than 1,800 points or 20% from its all time of 9,000 made in...

Government small savings schemes and bank fixed deposits are the automatic fixed income investment choices for the vast majority of retail investors. Based on information from various sources, the Government is expected to...

In the bull market years of 2006 and 2007 many investors gravitated to infrastructure mutual funds in the hope of getting extraordinarily high returns in a very short time. In fact, infrastructure funds did give outstanding returns during those years...

Gilt fund investors are sure to be disappointed with returns in the last 3 to 6 months. While 2014 was a fantastic year for investors in long term gilt funds with returns average category returns of more than 15%, 2015 was lot more volatile despite a...

We love knowing what is cooking at our neighbour’s place. Some might even point out and say we are more interested what is happening next door than in our lives. Some of us are also forced to become engineers because Sharma Ji...

An intrinsic characteristic of equity markets is that they are driven by sentiments in the short term and fundamentals in the long term. Over the past 10 months or so, the overwhelming sentiment in global equity markets has been that of fear. When fear or...

Banking and Finance comprise nearly 30% of the frontline Nifty 50 index and is by far the largest sector in the index by market capitalization. In fact, Bank Nifty, the index of 12 large cap banking stocks is one the most popularly tracked indices after the Nifty...

If you had started a monthly Systematic Investment Plan of र 5,000 in Reliance Tax Saver Mutual Fund Scheme 10 years back, by now you would have accumulated a corpus of nearly र 13.5 lacs with a cumulative investment of just र 6 lacs...

Where do you think the market will be at the end of this year? Irrespective of whether the market goes up or down, if you knew the answer to this question, then you will be able to make a lot of money. We know that it is not easy to...

SBI Magnum Equity Fund recently completed 25 years and is one of the oldest mutual fund schemes of India outside the Unit Trust of India stable. Over the past 10 years, this large cap fund has delivered very strong outperformance. In fact in...