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It is tax planning season now and Equity Linked Saving Schemes (ELSS) should be one of the top investment choices for investors. Some investors have a notion, that while ELSS is a good tax saving investment...

Most retail investors think only of the pharmaceuticals sector in the healthcare theme. However, healthcare is a much broader theme than pharmaceuticals – pharmaceuticals sector is a subset of the healthcare space. The global...

The Finance Minister announced some important changes to the personal income tax front in the 2014 Budget. We will discuss these changes and the implications for tax payers in this blog...

A comprehensive understanding of risk plays the most important in making investment decisions. However, the average the retail investor often does not know how to determine this. When a financial adviser...

Mint the leading financial daily rates Health insurance plans based on a variety of parameters. In this two part series, we will look at the best Health Insurance or Mediclaim plans based on Mint’s rating. Mint rates...

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...

Investors perpetually suffer from the lack of diversification. Diversification provides an edge to the portfolio which maximizes returns and minimizes risks. While Large Cap funds are considered to be a relatively safe option, the Mid and Small cap Funds...

Last one year has not been good for debt mutual fund investors. Interest rates, after declining for nearly three years bottomed out in the middle of 2017, have been on an upward trajectory since then. While, long term gilt funds, income funds etc...

In our last two posts we had discussed How SIPs in Diversified Equity Mutual Funds have created wealth over the last 15 years and How SIPs in Mid and Small Cap Mutual Funds have created wealth over last 10 years. We found amazing example...

As you know investments in equity or equity oriented mutual funds are suitable to investors with moderately high to high risk profile. Within the equity funds categories, mid & small cap funds and sectoral funds have the highest risk. However, if you can...