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ICICI Prudential Exports and Other Services Fund is relatively less well known compared to the more popular funds from ICICI Prudential and other fund houses, but the long term performance of this fund has been nothing short of...

The last one year has been very difficult for equity markets. Though weakness was seen across the breadth of the market, the large cap market segment saw the biggest decline. In the last one year while the S&P CNX 500 index fell by 11%, the Nifty...

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...

Market cycles are realities that all equity investors have to live with. Over the past 15 years, we had three bear market cycles. Some economists are of the opinion that market cycles will get shorter in the future. However, irrespective of...

In the bull market years of 2006 and 2007 many investors gravitated to infrastructure mutual funds in the hope of getting extraordinarily high returns in a very short time. In fact, infrastructure funds did give outstanding returns during those years...

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...

Infrastructure funds, which have been the biggest laggards in the last five years, are now making a strong comeback. Infrastructure sector funds, as a category, have given nearly 65% returns in the last year...

The new government on Thursday unveiled its first budget of structural reforms aimed at reviving growth, developing Infrastructure and thus winning praise from investors. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said he would...

Some top performing equity funds have given 2 times returns in the last 3 years. Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity fund has given 17 times returns in 12 years, implying that on an average, investment in the fund has doubled in value every 3 years...

If you had invested in SBI Blue-chip Fund 3 years back, you would have made a tax free profit of nearly 75% till date (Dec 3, 2016). While we should acknowledge that, 2014 was a bumper year for the Indian stock market, 2015 / early 2016 was one of...