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planning... or start their retirement planning late in life, which may put their financial inRetirement planning is one of the most important life-stage goals especially for salaried people. The financial objective of retirement planning is to accumulate a sufficiently large corpus which can meet cash-flow needs of you and your...

Some investors may think that, since mutual funds invest in stocks, they are better off investing in stocks directly through a broker instead of investing in mutual funds. Some people cite fund expense ratios and lack of control over the investments as key...

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...

The basic concept of life insurance is fairly simple. Most of us are familiar with insurance and own one or more life insurance policies. Yet there are several misconceptions and lack of understanding of various...

Section 80C of Income Tax Act 1961 allows investors to claim deductions from their taxable income by investing in certain eligible investment schemes. The amount of money invested in the schemes eligible u/s 80C can be claimed as deduction...

Most investors tend to associate stock market with mutual fund investments. As per AMFI, AUM of equity oriented schemes accounted for nearly 70% of total retail AUM. Equity funds and equity oriented balanced funds are essentially long term...

Bharat 22 is an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) offering by the Government of India to sell its stake in 22 companies to the public; this is part of Rs 72,500 Crore disinvestment target of the Government for FY 2017 – 2018. Bharat 22 is the...

With FY 2013 – 2014 drawing to a close, the focus will now shift to FY 2014 – 2015. In FY 2013 – 2014 majority of retail investors stayed away from equity markets. Most of the retail investors, who did...

Many of our advisor friends requested us to do this article just because the markets have been scaling new highs almost daily during the last 7 – 10 days. The Sensex closed at 23871.23 after hitting the all time...

There is an old saying in cricket, "form is temporary but class is permanent". This applies to HDFC Top 200 fund, a long term top performer in the large cap funds category. This fund from HDFC AMC the largest ...