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If you started a monthly SIP of र 5,000 in SBI Small and Midcap Fund 5 years back, your investment value would have been over र 6.31 lacs by May 23, 2016 (Source: Advisorkhoj Research). In other words, you would have made a profit of र 3.3 lacs...

Sundaram Select Midcap is one of the top performing midcap equity mutual funds in the last 10 years. If you invested र 100,000 in Sundaram Select Midcap Fund 10 years back, your investment would have grown to over र 417,722 by May 19, 2016 (Date...

DSP BlackRock Top 100 fund has been a very popular fund with investors for a long period. Over a long period of time, it is only natural that mutual funds go through ups and downs. DSP BlackRock Top 100 Fund has also gone through a period, where...

A typical example can be taken of my friend, Rahul who was quite successful in his life. He is employed in a good Multi-national Company at a senior position earning a seven figure salary, had a beautiful wife and two children to...

While small and midcap equity mutual funds generally tend to outperform large cap funds over a long investment horizon, the Reliance Small Cap fund has been an exceptionally strong performer in the small and midcap funds category and is clearly...

Making money in stock markets, from conceptual viewpoint, is quite easy; you buy low and sell high. In bull markets prices are high and in bear markets prices are low. Therefore, ideally, you should be selling in bull markets and buying in bear...

Guru Dronacharya emphasized the importance of having a target and setting your eyes on the target. This was the crux of his teachings which he imbibed in his training. Despite his efficient training, Arjun was the only disciple who...

Men and women are born with distinctively different sets of hormones. With the dawn of human civilization women were responsible to take care of the family and its wellbeing, whereas men were primarily taking care of earning, to meet the...

Balanced funds are ideal investment options for first time mutual fund investors. In equity markets there will always be periods when volatility will be very high. Depending on our investing temperament, some investors find high volatility very stressful...

In the previous part of this series, What should be the percentage of midcap mutual funds in your portfolio: Part 2, we discussed some common category allocations models used both in the US and in India. Small and midcap funds allocation in...