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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...

Value investing is the strategy of investing in undervalued stocks. Generally, the current market price of a stock is compared with its intrinsic value to decide whether it is under-valued or overvalued. If the...

In our previous article, Consistent Performers: Top 10 consistent performers in equity funds Part 1, we had discussed about the top 10 consistent performers among equity funds, as per the recent CRISIL ranking...

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...

SBI Emerging Businesses Fund was launched in 2004. If you had started a monthly SIP of Rs 5,000 in SBI Emerging Businesses Fund since inception, by now you would have accumulated a corpus of over Rs 17 Lakhs (as on April 2, 2018). The...

In this article we will review the Nippon India Vision Fund (Gr). If you had started Rs 10,000/- monthly SIP in Nippon India Vision Fund (Gr) at its inception, it would have grown to a whopping Rs 9.33 Crores with a cumulative invested amount of Rs 34.2 Lakhs only. This fund was started in October 1995 and over the years...

The equity market has been challenging for the last 6 to 9 months due to variety of concerns e.g. spread of Omicron, high commodity prices, trajectory of interest rates, the War in Ukraine, slowdown in Chinese economy etc. Over the last 6 months, the Nifty 50 is down nearly 12%, while the broader market, particularly...

The whole world is going through the worst crisis in several decades due to rapid spread of Coronavirus. Many countries including India are in lockdown and stock markets all over the world have crashed. The Sensex is down 35% this year, but there are many examples of severe market downturns in the past (see the chart below)...

In volatile market conditions, blue chip funds are always a wise bet because their portfolio mix limits downside risks in such conditions. ICICI Prudential Focused Bluechip Equity fund is a clear chart topper in its...

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...