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With the start of every New Year, and days before it, starts the list: the best of 2018, the worst of 2018 and of course the famed “New Year Resolutions for 2019”. In every sphere – from the office to home, from food to fitness, there...

With increasing application of payments digitization for different types of transactions in the financial services domain, online transactions in the mutual fund industry is increasingly gaining currency. Based on our interaction with both...

In a Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP), investor can regularly withdraw a fixed amount of money on a fixed date or dates from a mutual fund scheme. The amount to be withdrawn and the frequency of withdrawals (e.g. weekly, fortnightly...

High volatility in stock market poses dilemma for many investors. Investors with long investment horizons and high risk tolerance may want to invest irrespective of market levels. Some investors may wait for the market to correct...

Large and Midcap market segment refers to the top 250 companies by market capitalization. The top 100 companies by market capitalization are large cap companies, while the next 150 companies are classified as midcaps. Mutual...

10,000 crore AUM is an important landmark for equity mutual fund schemes and Mirae Asset India Equity Fund has recently crossed this landmark. Popularity of this fund among Indian mutual fund investors comes on back of strong performance...

Midcap and small cap funds were the preferred investment choices for retail investors from 2014 to 2017. Many investors got superlative returns from their small and midcap mutual funds during this period. However, 2018 has...

2018 has been a harsh year for midcap mutual funds. The Nifty Midcap 100 index has fallen nearly 16% on a year to date basis. Midcap equity mutual funds actually fared better than the midcap benchmark, but even midcap...

In the first part of this post, “Why you should get serious about retirement planning and start investing in mutual funds”, we had discussed that without serious thought and planning from an early stage of your career, retirement...

Retirement planning is one of the most important life goals for any family. Unfortunately, in our country, most people do not take retirement planning very seriously until it is too late. In the absence of a sufficiently large retirement...