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Prashant Jain is one of the well respected names in the fund management industry. He is the CIO (Chief Investment Officer) of HDFC mutual fund. Very few can boast of long term track record as he has. He is...

Gilt fund investors are sure to be disappointed with returns in the last 3 to 6 months. While 2014 was a fantastic year for investors in long term gilt funds with returns average category returns of more than 15%, 2015 was lot more volatile despite a...

Experts, philosophers and even our wise elders said the same thing – ‘Change is the only constant’. With time, everything changes and evolves. The same can also be said in the context of life insurance plans. Where earlier traditional plans like Whole Life...

In the first part of this post, Should you invest in ULIPs, we had discussed that Unit Linked Insurance Plans, popularly known as ULIPs, are now much better products than what they were before 2010. The IRDA regulations with respect to ULIPs in 2010...

As an investor of Mutual Funds you are aware of the fundamentals of Mutual Funds, the process of return generation and all that as an investor you must be aware of. However, a part of you still wonder if the information you have is...

Invest in Equities Instead! as the Rental Yields are Lower than the Mortgage & Opportunity Value Creation through Equity Investment is Huge! “Well, No Graphs, Worm Charts etc & it’s comparison with Equity Holding Performance for similar period can give the Answer”! “You certainly don’t have to become a...

When we talk about retirement different sentiments arise in our minds. Some of us feel tensed about meeting the post retirement related expenses while some of us feel that retirement would set us free from the daily humdrum of working life. Retirement holds...

While the performance of equity funds last year had been in general, lackadaisical, the performance of the small and midcap funds category has been particularly tepid. The average return of small and midcap...

HDFC Small Cap Fund has an illustrious history. The fund was launched in April 2008 as a Multi-cap fund, Morgan Stanley A.C.E. Fund under Morgan Stanley India AMC. In 2013, when HDFC AMC acquired Morgan Stanley India AMC, the fund's name change was changed to HDFC Mid and Small Cap fund. Then in 2016, the...

A pension plan is an annuity product which generates income during retirement. At a very high level there are two types of...