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In the month of February 2016, the Government announced new small savings scheme rules, which has come into effect from April 1, 2016. Under the new rules, investors in small savings schemes like Public Provident Fund, National Savings Certificates...

DSP BlackRock Micro Cap Fund has been the best performing mid and small cap fund for several years now. A र 1 lakh investment in the fund made 5 years back would have grown to र 3.1 lakhs. It is no surprise that, this fund featured at the very top our...

In a previous article we had discussed that, in the last one year top performing Mutual Fund Fixed Maturity Plans have given better returns than bank fixed deposits even on a pre tax basis. On a post tax...

You have been investing for a while in large cap funds and have been getting steady returns. While the steady returns keeps your investment from becoming stagnant, your portfolio is still lacking that aggressive edge where you can give it a push and...

Retirement planning is a complex but a very important topic, especially in today's context as our country is going through a process of economic and social transformation. Some of these changes are...

We are already in the third month of this financial year. Unless you have already started your tax planning, now is a good time to start planning for tax saving investments for the year FY 2014 – 2015. Remember, the...

We are in the third month of the current financial year. Unless you have already started your tax planning for FY 2014 – 2015, now is a good time to get serious about it. Remember, the longer you wait for start your...

SBI Mutual Fund’s Bandhan SWP, on the face of it, is a plain vanilla Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP), but it has a beneficiary feature which makes it a unique investment solution for families. Using Bandhan SWP, you can create an income...

We have discussed growth and value investing a number of times in our blog. For benefit of our readers who are not familiar with growth or value investing in mutual funds, let us briefly recap these two concepts...

Government small savings schemes and bank fixed deposits are the automatic fixed income investment choices for the vast majority of retail investors. Based on information from various sources, the Government is expected to...