When we hear about Health Insurance, we think of an insurance plan which generally covers the cost of treatment when you are admitted in the hospital. The pay outs are made on actual expenses incurred in the hospital during the treatment period. These...Read More
A recent research on retirement planning conducted by Reliance capital asset management in association with IMRB international reveals shocking data on the percentage of people actually planning for retirement in India. With an increase in the...Read More
Flexi Cap funds, as the name suggests, are diversified equity funds which invest in stocks across different market capitalizations. The flexible mandate of these funds enable fund managers to spot opportunities...Read More
Many investors are under the impression that larger the fund size better the prospect of higher returns. This is not always true. There is no doubt that the large funds can boast of great past track record, hence the...Read More
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...Read More
In our previous article on life insurance, we had discussed how to determine how much life insurance cover you need. Once you have determined how much cover you need the next question is which life insurance...Read More
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...Read More
Bank Fixed Deposits and Government Small Savings Schemes are automatic investment choices for vast majority of risk-averse investors in our country. While these schemestheoretically give risk free return, one has to look at risk through...Read More
Nippon India Large Cap Fund has completed 18 years since its launch. A long-time favourite with investors, the fund has crossed Rs 50,000 crores of AUM. As per SEBI’s mandate, the fund invests at least 80% of its assets in large cap stocks (top 100 stocks by market capitalization). Nippon India large cap fund has been...Read More
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...Read More