There are times when you get unexpected wealth. It can come from sale of your ancestral property, settlement of some legal dispute, getting a large signing bonus on joining a new company, a much larger than expected annual bonus or stock options etc. A large unexpected cash-flow is known in financial parlance...Read More

SIP or Systematic Investment Plan is a method of investing a fixed amount, regularly (monthly, quarterly, etc.) in open ended mutual fund schemes. SIP allows you to buy the units of your selected scheme on a date chosen by you at regular intervals. The SIP amount gets auto-debited from your bank account and...Read More

Inflation is inevitable and everyone is affected by it in one way or another. Prices of goods and your cost of living go up with inflation. Cost of borrowing also goes up as interest rates go up with inflation. Inflation also has impact on your investments. While moderate rate of inflation is generally considered healthy in a...Read More

The new financial year has begun and this is a good time to see where you stand from a financial perspective and make plans for the New Year. If you are a salaried person, this is also the time when your annual increment comes into effect and you can review your regular investment plans for the year. In this blog post, we...Read More

We are in the month of February and the deadline for doing your tax planning for this financial year’s investments is drawing nearer. If have not done your tax planning for Assessment Year 2022-23 (FY 2021-22), then you should do it now. The last date for making tax saving investments for AY 2022-23 is 31st March 2022. Section...Read More

Market capitalization typically tells us how much a company is worth. Market capitalization of a stock is the market price of the stock multiplied by the number of total outstanding shares. Stocks can be classified into different segments based on their market capitalization. According to SEBI, there are three market capitalization...Read More

The global healthcare ecosystem has made great advances over several past decades. Outcomes of treatments for serious illnesses have improved as doctors and pharmaceutical companies have made great breakthroughs in developing new therapies and drugs for life threatening diseases. Advances in medical technologies and...Read More

In India, companies listed on the stock exchanges between 1 – 100th in terms of full market capitalization are called Large Cap companies (Large Cap stocks).Large cap funds are equity mutual fund schemes which have to invest at least 80% of their assets in large cap stocks. Large cap companiesare typically large in...Read More

Why do we invest in mutual funds? We want to get returns in the form of capital appreciation or income or both. Return on investment is a metric used to measure the performance of a mutual fund scheme. In this blog post, we will discuss about different type of returns and how you can use them to evaluate the performance of a...Read More

As per SEBI's guidelines, 101st to 250th stocks by market capitalization are classified as midcap stocks. Market capitalization of a company is the share price of the company multiplied by the total number of shares outstanding. Midcap stockshave more growth potential than large cap stocks (top 100 companies by market...Read More