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Savings bank is the default choice for most individuals and families for parking their savings for short periods. Savings bank provides high liquidity and convenience to account holders. You can draw money from your savings...

Liquid mutual funds are mainly used by investors to park money for very short periods of time ranging from a few days to few months for earning returns that are significantly higher than savings bank interest rates and at the same time...

In our last post on Systematic Transfer Plan (STP),What should the ideal tenure of a STP in Large Cap Mutual Funds,we discussed about the dilemma which investors face when investing in equity mutual funds through STP...

Last week, two young professionals, one aged 26 years and the other 34 years, both working at the same company in the same city, with reasonable similar family backgrounds, came to seek advice on investing. As we discussed...

In the last one year, when Nifty Small Cap (SML 100) Index fell 13% and small cap mutual funds as a category gave -4% return, SBI Small Cap Fund protected investor’s capital and delivered positive returns. The relatively good performance...

Multi Cap Mutual Funds are equity mutual fund schemes which have flexible mandates of investing across different market capitalization segments e.g. large cap, midcap and small cap. SEBI classifies the top 100 stocks by market...

Understanding risk / return characteristics of asset class is fundamental to investing. An asset class may have hundreds or thousands of different instruments or schemes, but all instruments in a particular asset class display...

The goal of retirement planning is to accumulate a corpus that will ensure your financial independence and maintain lifestyle during a period where your only source of income is from your investments. Retired lives can be long (20...

Systematic Transfer Plan (STP) is a mutual fund investment plan in which you can invest your lump sum money in a low risk mutual fund scheme, usually liquid fund and then transfer systematically fixed amounts every...

I've met people for whom retirement is scary, an end to golden years of income, a life of uncertainty without the cushy corporate job, income, and perks. And I've met people for whom retirement is a “can't wait”, a beginning of a more flexible...