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SBI Magnum Equity Fund recently completed 25 years and is one of the oldest mutual fund schemes of India outside the Unit Trust of India stable. Over the past 10 years, this large cap fund has delivered very strong outperformance. In fact in...

Humans pride themselves on being the most rational beings. All of us believe that we are only capable of making rational decisions, at least for us our investments, and that is what we have been doing so far. If somebody told you otherwise, you will either...

Some investors will remember that in the good old days, when you could double your money in just over 5 years by investing in National Savings Certificates. Unfortunately it is not possible these days...

In our last three posts on this SWP series, we found how SWP from ICICI Prudential Balanced Fund, Reliance Regular Savings Fund Balanced option and Birla Sun Life Balanced 95 Fund were good options if you were looking for regular returns by using...

Foreclosure of a home loan is a wise decision as it helps lower the interest burden and brings down the overall cost of the property to the owner, while preserving the asset value. However, foreclosure of home loan could also be tricky, particularly if...

Infrastructure is said to be the tangible aspects such as roads, railways, transportation, electricity and so on which are indispensible to the day to day functioning of an economy. The state of the infrastructure is...

Balanced funds have been around in India for nearly two decades and Birla Sunlife 95 is one of the oldest schemes with one of the best track record of performance in this category. Balanced funds are essentially...

'The Efficient Market Hypothesis' (EMH) is a landmark in modern financial theory. It states that it is impossible to beat the market at any given point of time. The existing stock prices are incorporated to reflect upon the markets. This hypothesis is revered...

In the last 5 years, Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip Fund has emerged as the best performer in the large and midcap equity funds segment (please see top performing large and midcap funds in our MF Research section). For the benefit of readers...

An effective way to save tax, as advised by tax consultants, is to form a Hindu Undivided Family. The principle of taxation of Hindu Undivided Family is based on the concept of joint family in India, where the assets...