Mutual Funds Articles

As discussed in our last post How SIPs in Diversified Equity Mutual Funds have created wealth over the last 15 years, Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) were introduced by Franklin Templeton Investments around two decades back. Since then...

Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs) were introduced in India almost 22 years back by Franklin Templeton. Since then, SIPs has become the preferred way of investing in Mutual Funds. Currently in India, Investors are contributing almost Rs. 3,000 Crore...

If you started a monthly SIP of र 5,000 in SBI Small and Midcap Fund 5 years back, your investment value would have been over र 6.31 lacs by May 23, 2016 (Source: Advisorkhoj Research). In other words, you would have made a profit of र 3.3 lacs...

Sundaram Select Midcap is one of the top performing midcap equity mutual funds in the last 10 years. If you invested र 100,000 in Sundaram Select Midcap Fund 10 years back, your investment would have grown to over र 417,722 by May 19, 2016 (Date...

DSP BlackRock Top 100 fund has been a very popular fund with investors for a long period. Over a long period of time, it is only natural that mutual funds go through ups and downs. DSP BlackRock Top 100 Fund has also gone through a period, where...

While small and midcap equity mutual funds generally tend to outperform large cap funds over a long investment horizon, the Reliance Small Cap fund has been an exceptionally strong performer in the small and midcap funds category and is clearly...

Balanced funds are ideal investment options for first time mutual fund investors. In equity markets there will always be periods when volatility will be very high. Depending on our investing temperament, some investors find high volatility very stressful...

In the first part of this series, Technology is reshaping our world: Financial advisors should embrace technology: Part 1, we discussed how technology is re-shaping the financial services landscape and in the second part we discussed How can...

In the previous part of this post, Technology is reshaping our world: Financial advisors should embrace technology: Part 1, we discussed how technology is re-shaping the financial services landscape. Michael Porter of Harvard Business...

When I was in middle school in the mid eighties, I remember that, for many months the headline dominating the newspaper front pages, related to the subject of bank computerization. The banking industry was crippled...