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We ended the September 2018 comments with the note, “May we live in interesting times” and indeed, interesting times continued in the month of October. Thankfully interesting times also took a little bit of a pause at the start...

Over the past month or so, we are experiencing a period of heightened volatility in the stock market, primarily driven by weak macroeconomics and IL&FS crises. The Nifty has corrected by more than 1,000 points from its last peak.In...

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)...

I started my investment journey in April or May 1998. I had a lot of interest in the stock market going back to my university days, but the beginning of my investment journey was one of the worst times for the stock market...

One of my friends, a banker and a long time mutual fund investor, always spreads his mutual fund SIPs over 3 – 4 dates in a month. I, on the other hand, have simply selected one date, at the start of the month for my mutual fund...

The stock market has been quite volatile this year. In the last 2 months or so, Nifty has declined by around 10%. Such big declines in the past may have triggered off panic selling by retail investors but mutual fund SIP inflows have...

Zone of support is the price zone from where stocks bounce back after falling. Traders usually like to buy stocks in this zone. For Nifty – 50 this year so far, the 10,000 mark has formed a zone of support. Though the market has been...

We are in the middle of the festive season and this time of the year, as per Indian cultural tradition, is auspicious for buying Gold. India is the largest importer of Gold in the world, around 900 tons every year; primary end use of...

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...