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Reliance Mutual Fund has announced the third tranche of Further Funds Offer (FFO) for CPSE ETF. The CPSE ETF is an innovative initiative of the Government to disinvest its stake in select Public Sector companies through the exchange...

This year RBI has been on a trajectory of tightening interest rates in an effort to control inflation. Repo rate has been raised three times. Regular Advisorkhoj readers know that repo rate hikes by the RBI raise bond yields, cause...

Section 80C of the Income Tax Act 1961 allows tax payers to claim deductions of up to Rs 1.5 Lakhs in a financial year from their taxable income by investing in certain eligible schemes specified under the Section. Eligible schemes...

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...