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A term plan is a straightforward protection policy and is the purest form of Life Insurance. Term plans, unlike endowment or money back plans, do not have savings and investment component built into the insurance...

In times of high equity market volatility, such as the one we are seeing right now, fluctuations in their asset values can be stressful for investors with moderate risk appetite or first time equity investors. However, as discussed many times in our blog, over a long investment horizon, no...

You may have heard of the saying, “Do not put all your eggs in one basket”. That is exactly what asset allocation is, not putting all your eggs in one basket. Asset allocation through mutual funds is an investment strategy...

If you had invested Rs. 1 lac in DSP BlackRock Opportunities Fund at the time of its inception (NFO) in the year 2000 the value of your investment today would be Rs. 14 lacs. The performance of this diversified equity fund in the recent years has also...

This is our first review of a liquid fund in Advisorkhoj.com. We thought that we would start our liquid fund review with one of the best liquid funds, the Canara Robeco Liquid Fund. Retail investor’s interest in liquid fund is still quite low in our country...

In our last three posts in this series we had discussed How SIPs in Top and Best Large Cap Mutual Funds have created wealth over last 12 years, How SIPs in Top and Best Mid and Small Cap Mutual Funds have created wealth over last 10 years, and...

If you had started a monthly Systematic Investment Plan of र 5,000 in Reliance Tax Saver Mutual Fund Scheme 10 years back, by now you would have accumulated a corpus of nearly र 13.5 lacs with a cumulative investment of just र 6 lacs...

A र 5,000 monthly SIP in Reliance Small Cap Fund over the last 5 years would have grown to a value of more than र 6 lacs (as on 21.04.2016) while the investor would have invested only र 3 lacs on a cumulative basis. The annualized SIP returns of this...

Mutual Fund monthly income plans are debt oriented hybrid funds. Usually a maximum of 25% of the asset allocation goes to equity and the balance to debt. The debt portion of the asset allocation ensures stability of income, while the equity...

The perpetual question that investors are faced with is: Debt or Equities. As an investor should one opt for the volatility and to get high returns of equities? Or one should seek safety in debts while gathering moderate returns? While it is agreed...