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In the bull market years of 2006 and 2007 many investors gravitated to infrastructure mutual funds in the hope of getting extraordinarily high returns in a very short time. In fact, infrastructure funds did give outstanding returns during those years...

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...

We love knowing what is cooking at our neighbour’s place. Some might even point out and say we are more interested what is happening next door than in our lives. Some of us are also forced to become engineers because Sharma Ji...

An intrinsic characteristic of equity markets is that they are driven by sentiments in the short term and fundamentals in the long term. Over the past 10 months or so, the overwhelming sentiment in global equity markets has been that of fear. When fear or...

Banking and Finance comprise nearly 30% of the frontline Nifty 50 index and is by far the largest sector in the index by market capitalization. In fact, Bank Nifty, the index of 12 large cap banking stocks is one the most popularly tracked indices after the Nifty...

If you had started a monthly Systematic Investment Plan of र 5,000 in Reliance Tax Saver Mutual Fund Scheme 10 years back, by now you would have accumulated a corpus of nearly र 13.5 lacs with a cumulative investment of just र 6 lacs...

Where do you think the market will be at the end of this year? Irrespective of whether the market goes up or down, if you knew the answer to this question, then you will be able to make a lot of money. We know that it is not easy to...

SBI Magnum Equity Fund recently completed 25 years and is one of the oldest mutual fund schemes of India outside the Unit Trust of India stable. Over the past 10 years, this large cap fund has delivered very strong outperformance. In fact in...

In the previous part of this blog, How to select mutual funds based on your investment needs: Part 1, we discussed that you should base your selection of mutual fund schemes on your investment goals. For each investment...

ICICI Prudential Exports and Other Services Fund is relatively less well known compared to the more popular funds from ICICI Prudential and other fund houses, but the long term performance of this fund has been nothing short of...