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The volatility in the Indian equity market over the past few weeks is sure to have spooked a lot of retail investors. The Sensex fell over 2,500 points from 28,236 on August 7 to 25,741 on August 24, a nearly 10% decline in little over 2 weeks...

Balanced funds are attractive investment options for first time mutual fund investors and investors with moderate risk capacities. Balanced Funds are hybrid equity oriented funds with more than 65% allocation to equity and the balance to debt...

The stock market is trading at its record high despite bouts of high volatility from time to time. Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have been net sellers on an YTD basis in 2024. There are multiple factors at play. FIIs are shifting their emerging market allocations from India to China because from their...

Two years back Wall Street Journal, the leading business and finance journal, published an article covering a study done by Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Robert Stambaugh and Lucian Taylor of...

When life goes well, everything seems possible. No obstacle is too difficult to surmount, no challenge seems too big. But that is only when life goes well. When it doesn’t, the slightest difficulty assumes mammoth proportions. Every problem...

DSP BlackRock Top 100 fund has been a very popular fund with investors for a long period. Over a long period of time, it is only natural that mutual funds go through ups and downs. DSP BlackRock Top 100 Fund has also gone through a period, where...

In the past few years I was always the happy-go-lucky kind of guy. Having being educated from a good institute, I got a job easily and was doing well for myself. Then marriage happened and I learned what responsibility is. Family planning was the...

SBI Magnum Monthly Income Plan balances the need for capital safety with inflation beating returns. The fund achieves the balance by investing around 85% of its portfolio corpus in debt and money market, and around 15% in equity market. The fund has...

Based on our interactions with investors and financial advisors, we see that there is a lot of interest in mutual fund dividends and Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP) as income solutions for investors. Many investors prefer dividend options for regular...

2017 has begun on a very promising note for Indian equities, especially large cap stocks and mutual funds. The Nifty is already up nearly 9% in the first two months. Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund, one of the best performing large cap funds over...