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Birla Sun Life India Gennext Fund is relatively less well known mutual fund scheme with an AUM base of just around र 360 crores. However, this fund is among the top mutual funds in terms of wealth creation for investors over the last 10 years. If you started a...

Interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are usually good for the economy. It reduces the borrowing costs of business, which in turn leads to incremental economic activity, higher employment rates and higher GDP growth. The stock and...

The last one year has been very difficult for equity markets. Though weakness was seen across the breadth of the market, the large cap market segment saw the biggest decline. In the last one year while the S&P CNX 500 index fell by 11%, the Nifty...

Have you wondered why many mutual fund houses have multiple products with very similar investment objectives and strategies? When we ask the fund houses, why they have two or more very similar products, they try to explain the differences between...

In our various articles we have discussed how Mutual Funds are the best investment option for not only creating your long term wealth it can also take care of your short term needs and help you achieve your...

Yesterday in the first part this article we discussed few common Mutual Fund investing mistakes. In the concluding part today, we will discuss some more in order to help our readers take prudent investment decisions with...

We at Advisorkhoj receive queries regularly about investing in Mutual Funds. Most of the queries are very basic and relate to what is the best time to start a SIP or should one stop the SIP when markets are not good...

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...

A few months back I attended a dinner party at an ex-colleague’s place in Gurgaon. One of the invitees to the party was a chartered accountant cum financial planner, who runs a very successful tax and financial advisory practice in the National Capital...

Balanced Mutual Funds are hybrid equity oriented mutual fund schemes. These funds usually invest 65 – 75% of their portfolio in equity securities and the remaining portion in debt or money market securities. The hybrid portfolio moderates the fund volatility...