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We are in the third quarter of this tax assessment year (AY 2023-24). If you have not made your tax planning investments in this financial year, now is a good time to plan your 80C investments. You can claim up to Rs 150,000 deduction from your taxable income by investing in schemes eligible under Section 80C of Income...

The market bounced back after President Trump announced ceasefire in the Israel Iran War. Crude prices which rose sharply after hostilities broke out between Israel and Iran tumbled. FII flows to Indian equities in June 2025 continued to be robust despite geopolitical risks. RBI’s 50 bps repo rate cut in June can boost spending...

The last 2 - 3 year period has been a challenging one for the broader stock market. In the last 3 years, the Nifty Midcap 100 has given negative returns, falling by nearly 1%. Small caps have fallen even more with the Nifty Small Cap 100 falling by 13% during this period. Large cap stocks performed better (in relative terms) giving 9% CAGR returns...

Indian equity market saw a fantastic rally over the past 12 months. The rally in the last 6 months was quite spectacular (as can be seen in the Nifty 50 chart below); in the last 6 months the Nifty gave over 17% returns...

A strong rally in the equity markets witnessed the Nifty 50 index crossing the historic 20,000 levels in September 2023. Since mid-September, we saw investors booking profits and the Nifty correcting nearly 700 points (as on October 20, 2023) from its historic all-time high. Since then the market has recovered...

The services sector is one of the most important sectors of the Indian economy. The services sector accounts for 56% of the India’s GDP. Services sector is also the fastest growing sector of the Indian economy from the mid-80s onwards. Rising per capita income, growth in social mobility and increasing urbanization has contributed to growth...

Shriram Mutual Fund has launched a new fund offer (NFO), Shriram Multi Sector Rotation Fund. This is a thematic fund which will rotate trending sectors, investing in 3 – 6 sectors at any point. The fund will use quantitative techniques to identify trending sectors and avoid sector traps. The NFO...

The equity market has corrected from the all the time highs. The rally in Chinese equities after the announcement of stimulus by the Government in Beijing has caused FIIs to shift their emerging market allocations from India to China. Escalating tensions in the Middle East has also dragged down the markets...

Multicap funds are diversified equity mutual fund schemes which invest across market cap segments i.e. large cap, midcap and small caps. Multicap funds are among the most diversified among all equity funds because they are not only diversified across industry sectors, but also across market cap segments. Prior to September 2021, multicap...

SBI Mutual Fund launched SBI Balanced Advantage Fund last year in August. The scheme manages its asset allocation dynamically based on valuations and some other parameters. SEBI does not have asset allocation upper and lower limits for dynamic asset allocation funds or balanced advantage funds. In other words...