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The influence of global brands on modern life both professional and personal is huge. A decade or two back, brands were usually associated with luxury spending e.g. apparel, accessories, gadgets etc. But now from waking up in the morning to going to bed, most of us are consumers of global brands on a daily basis. The toothpaste you use in...

Principal Focused Multi-cap Fund is one of the best performing focused equity funds in the last 6 months to 1 year. The scheme was ranked 4^th among 22 focused equity schemes in terms of last 6 months performance and 4^th among 19 schemes in terms of last 1 year performance. The chart below shows the trailing returns of Principal...

Principal Equity Savings Fund is an open ended hybrid equity oriented mutual fund scheme. The scheme was launched in May 2002. From a taxation standpoint, this fund is treated like an equity fund scheme. Long term capital gains (holding period of more than 12 months) in this fund is tax free. Short term capital gains are taxed at 15%. The...

Canara Robeco Consumer Trends Fund has a strong long term track record of wealth. If you invested Rs 1 lakh in this fund at the time of its launch in 2009, your investment would have multiplied 10X to Rs 10.1 lakhs (as on 9th January 2025). India is a primarily a consumption driven economy. As per...

Imagine the market takes a steep 30% plunge, leaving advisors with the dual challenge of reassuring clients, managing high stress levels, and providing direction in an unpredictable environment. While economic downturns are not new, the relative calm of the past decade has muted the psychological impacts of previous crises...

ITI Mutual Fund has launched a New Fund Offer, ITI Flexi Cap Fund, an open-ended equity scheme which will have flexibility to invest across market capitalization segments i.e. large cap, midcap and small cap. ITI Flexi Cap Fund is the 9^th scheme in ITI MF’s equity product offerings. The NFO opened for subscription on...

We have covered Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund a number of times in our fund reviews. The scheme has been a strong performer over a long investment horizon (5 years plus), but the fund underperformed in 2018 and also in the first half of 2019. We had discussed the reasons for the 2018-19 underperformance of this scheme...

ITI Mutual Fund has launched a New Fund Offer, ITI Focused Fund, an open-ended focused equity scheme which will invest in portfolio of maximum 30 high conviction stocks across market capitalization segments i.e. large cap, midcap and small cap. The NFO has opened for subscription on 29^th May...

The equity market has been rallying in 2023 with the market at record highs for the past 3 months. The Nifty crossed the 20,000 level in September. Asset allocation is always for your portfolio stability, but in very high markets it assumes even more importance. We have seen some profit booking from...

Nippon India Asset Allocator Fund of Funds is a fund of funds (FOF) which invests in mutual funds and exchange traded funds of different asset classes. It aims to provide exposure to multiple asset classes e.g. equity, debt, gold etc. The asset allocation framework of the scheme is...