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In our post Understanding the post Budget market rally: Will it be sustainable we discussed several technical factors leading up to the post budget rally and some important levels that investors should keep a watch on. We had mentioned in our...

Over the last few days the Nifty corrected from its 52 week high of 8,969 to 8715 (as on September 9, 2016). This 250 point (approx) correction may have come as a surprise to some investors, but to readers who have followed our technical...

In our last post on this series we discussed how SWP from ICICI Prudential Balanced Fund was proved to be a good option if one was looking for regular returns by using the SWP method. Today we will analyze how the same worked for Reliance Regular...

There are both advantages and disadvantages associated with buying single premium versus regular premium life insurance policies. In a single premium insurance policy, the entire premium is paid up front, whereas...

Yesterday, we published an article Are Mutual Fund Infrastructure Funds suitable for you. In this article we discussed that by investing in Infrastructure Funds; you are probably over diversifying. Also, it is suited best to investors of high...

Consistent performance, in our view, should be most important selection criterion for mutual funds. While consistent performance is important for all categories of mutual funds, it is especially significant for long term debt funds (or income funds). This is...

ICICI Prudential Bluechip Equity Fundis the best performing large cap equity funds in the last 10 years (please see our Top Performing Mutual Funds (Trailing returns) - Equity: Large Cap). It is also among the top 3 large cap SIPs in the last...

Whatsapp is the most popular social media platform in India. India had 400 million Whatsapp users as on June 2019 (source: Niti Ayog). In contrast, Facebook users in India totalled at 241 million even though Facebook is an older app than Whatsapp. There are 450 million smartphone users in India. This means that Whatsapp is used...

From time to time we see debates on expense ratios in the investment community. For the average retail investor in India, however, expense ratio is not an important factor in investment decision making. The average investors base their mutual fund...

As investors you are often told that investments are done with the aim of fulfilling personal financial goals. This is often said with the assumption that you have a financial goal or goals to fulfill. The idea of having personal goals...