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The most important objective of life insurance is to get life cover for the dependents of the insured in the event of an unfortunate death. In other words, in the event of an unfortunate death, your family should receive the sum assured from the...

There has been a spate of closed end Mutual Fund launches in the last one year. There is much lesser awareness about closed end funds among retail investors for a number of reasons. Firstly, the closed end...

In the previous article, we discussed that you can earn higher returns by parking your surplus cash in like liquid funds, instead of leaving it in your savings bank accounts. While savings bank pays...

My friend Amit understood the meaning of life Insurance when his colleague Muthu suddenly died in office. Muthu met with a sudden heart attack and declared dead when brought to the hospital. Even though Muthu was earning Rs 65,000 a month, he had...

Life insurance is essential for the financial protection of your family in the event of an unfortunate death. However, insurance buyers often focus on other considerations like tax savings, premiums or investment returns...

If you had invested Rs 1 lakh in Nippon India Growth Fund in its NFO in October 1995, your money would have multiplied to more than Rs 2.2 crores. Nippon India Growth Fund is undoubtedly one of the biggest wealth creators for mutual fund investors over the last 25 years or so. The phenomenal wealth creation...

In our article, Asset Allocation strategies for different age groups, we had discussed that asset allocation for investors depends on a number of factors. The different factors are...

We see a tendency among many investors and financial advisors of preferring popular mutual funds. Funds become popular by dint of their past performance and are thereafter, sought after by investors. However, many a times, in this process...

If you had invested Rs 1 lakh in Nippon India Small Cap Fund at the time of its inception (September 2010), the value of your investment would have grown to nearly Rs 10.57 lakhs (as on 7^th June 2023). The CAGR returns of this scheme since inception is over 20%. If you invested in the scheme with a...

Retail investors who are new to mutual funds usually go for large cap funds. These funds invest in large market capitalization companies. Investors often view large cap companies as safer investment options compared...