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Last year I was speaking with a life insurance advisor. Among other things, I urged him to recommend only term life insurance plans to his clients. Term plans are straightforward protection plans and are in the best interest of the insurance buyer...

If you had invested र 10 Lacs in Birla Sun Life Frontline Equity Fund – Regular plan –Growth, during the NFO (launch date August 30, 2002) and started withdrawing र 8,000 per month after one year then the current value of your investment would have...

Gold as an asset category has a huge cultural significance for Indians. But cultural considerations aside, how is gold as an investment option? Apart from buying gold for weddings and other auspicious occasions...

In the Advisorkhoj blog, we have often stressed the importance of selecting consistent performers for your long term mutual fund portfolios. Many investors select mutual funds based on last 1 or 2 years performance, but investors should...

In its last monetary policy review on August 5 the RBI kept the repo rate unchanged at 8%, as was widely expected. Governor Rajan reiterated the central bank’s commitment to bringing down inflation, signalling...

LIC Mutual Fund Unit Linked Insurance Scheme is an investment cum insurance product, which offers investments in equity oriented hybrid asset class along with life insurance cover. Launched in 1989, the Unit Linked Insurance Scheme is one...

When we talk about savings bank, we remember of an account when we were growing up and our parents helped us open one in the same bank where they maintained their account. All of us see our savings bank account as an account...

In the last 2 articles in this series we had discussed that IT and Healthcare sector funds had outperformed the market over the last one to two year periods. In this article, we turn our attention to Banking...

In our previous article, How have top Unit Linked Insurance Plan (ULIP) funds performed in the last 5 years: Part 1, we have seen how the top equity oriented ULIP funds have performed in the last 5 years. We had seen...

Mutual fund investors often come across the term "value investing". While value investing is very a popular concept in the investment world, it is not very well understood in the context of mutual funds, especially here...