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Principal Tax Savings Fund is one of the best performing equity linked savings schemes (ELSS) in the last 5 years. Section 80C of Income Tax Act 1961 allows tax payers to claim deduction of up to Rs 1.5 Lakhs by investing in mutual fund...

We Indians love a good bargain. Whether it is haggling with the vegetable seller or arguing with the cab or rickshaw driver about the shortest (and most economic) route, to booking air tickets and hotels for leisure or business travel, we are...

SBI Mutual Fund has launched its latest fund offering SBI-ETF Quality. The New Fund Offer (NFO) opened yesterday (November 26) and will close on December 3rd 2018. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are increasingly gaining currency with...

Reliance Mutual Fund has announced the third tranche of Further Funds Offer (FFO) for CPSE ETF. The CPSE ETF is an innovative initiative of the Government to disinvest its stake in select Public Sector companies through the exchange...

This year RBI has been on a trajectory of tightening interest rates in an effort to control inflation. Repo rate has been raised three times. Regular Advisorkhoj readers know that repo rate hikes by the RBI raise bond yields, cause...

Section 80C of the Income Tax Act 1961 allows tax payers to claim deductions of up to Rs 1.5 Lakhs in a financial year from their taxable income by investing in certain eligible schemes specified under the Section. Eligible schemes...

We ended the September 2018 comments with the note, “May we live in interesting times” and indeed, interesting times continued in the month of October. Thankfully interesting times also took a little bit of a pause at the start...

Over the past month or so, we are experiencing a period of heightened volatility in the stock market, primarily driven by weak macroeconomics and IL&FS crises. The Nifty has corrected by more than 1,000 points from its last peak.In...

Aggressive Hybrid Funds are excellent investment options for investors who want capital appreciation in the long term, but do not have appetite for high volatility. These funds invest 65 to 80% of their asset corpus in equity and equity related...

Principal Emerging Bluechip Fund has just completed 10 years since launch. If you had invested Rs 1 Lakh in this scheme at the time of its NFO, your investment would have grown to Rs 10 Lakhs. In compounded annual growth rate (CAGR)...