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Equity Linked Savings Scheme (ELSS) is one of the most popular tax saving investments under section 80C of the Income Tax Act 1961. By investing in ELSS, the investors can avail three benefits - Tax savings, capital appreciation and tax...

When making short term investments, safety and liquidity are very important considerations for investors. Equity as an asset class is generally not suitable for short term investments because it is more volatile than fixed income or debt. So...

Bharat 22 is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) offering by the Government of India to sell its stake in 22 companies to the public; this is part of Rs 72,500 Crore disinvestment target of the Government for FY 2017 – 2018. Bharat 22 is the...

Balanced funds are attractive investment options for first time mutual fund investors and investors with moderate risk capacities. Balanced Funds are hybrid equity oriented funds with more than 65% allocation to equity and the balance to debt...

ICICI Prudential Multicap Fund was launched nearly 23 years back. If you invested Rs 10,000 in the scheme when it was launched, then its investment value now would be around Rs 2.62 lakhs. The performance of this scheme in the last 5 years has been...

The importance of rural India in the political and economic context of our country can never be overstated. The rural economy has always been a priority area for governments both in the centre and in the states since our independence. A good...

Some investors may think that, since mutual funds invest in stocks, they are better off investing in stocks directly through a broker instead of investing in mutual funds. Some people cite fund expense ratios and lack of control over the investments as key...

ICICI Prudential Banking and PSU debt fund has been a strong performer in the short term debt funds category over the last few years. In the last one year this short term debt mutual fund schemegave 9.7% return, which was much higher than bank...

Banking sector mutual funds have performed very strongly in the last one year or so, after underperforming in 2015. In the last one year banking sector mutual funds have given average returns of 27.5%. On a 2017 year to date basis, banking sector funds...

Regular Advisorkhoj blog readers know that, we give a lot of importance to mutual fund performance consistency. We have also developed a research tool, where our readers can see the top most consistent mutual funds in various product categories (please...