SBI Mutual Fund is launching a New Fund Offer of an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) which will track the Nifty India Consumption Index. The NFO – SBI ETF CONSUMPTION - Opens on 30^th June 2021 and closes on 14th July 2021. Investors can subscribe to units of this ETF during the NFO period. Upon the closure of the NFO, the...

Nifty Next 50 Index comprises of the 51st to 100th largest companies by free float market capitalization on the National Stock Exchange (NSE). According to SEBI, the top 100 companies by market capitalization are categorized as large cap companies. Nifty 50 (top 50 companies by free float market capitalization)...

Fixed maturity plans are close ended debt mutual fund schemes which invest in different debt securities like commercial papers, certificates of deposits, non-convertible debentures, G-Secs, SDLs etc. Since FMPs are close ended schemes, they can be bought from the Asset Management Company (AMC) only during the New Funds Offer...

Section 80C of Income Tax Act 1961 allows investors to claim up to Rs 150,000 deduction from their gross taxable incomes by investing in eligible schemes. You can save up to Rs 46,800 in taxes (for investors in the highest tax bracket) by investing in 80C schemes. Some of the most popular tax saving investments under Section...

SBI Magnum Multicap Fund has been one of the top performing diversified equity funds. The scheme was launched in 2005 and has delivered north of 12% CAGR returns since inception. This scheme is one of the most popular schemes in the SBI Mutual Fund stable with Rs 10,425 Crores of assets under management (AUM) as on...

SBI Mutual Fund is launching a New Fund Offer (NFO) which will invest in US equities – SBI INTERNATIONAL ACCESS – US EQUITY FOF. The NFO is a fund of fund (FOF) investing in Amundi Funds – US Pioneer Funds.Amundi is one of the leading Asset Management Companies (AMC) of the world with over $2.1 trillion of assets under...

Retirement planning is one of the most ignored financial goals in most Indian households even though it is the one of the most important, if not the most important life-stage goals for most families. According to SBI Mutual Fund, India is expected to move from a predominantly young population to an aging population in the next 30...

Midcaps had been underperforming versus large caps since 2018. But midcaps have outperformed large caps over the past six months or so. With stock market at all-time high, midcaps have the potential to outperform large caps over sufficiently long investment horizon. Though midcaps are more volatile than large caps, they have...

Contra is an investing strategy which is opposite to the market trend. Contra fund managers invest in stocks that are currently underperforming due to short term issues but which have good growth potential in the medium to long term. Warren Buffet’s famous quote, “be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are...

ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is an instrument which invests in the basket of securities that, reflects the composition of a market index like Nifty, Sensex, Nifty – 100, etc. ETFs aim to replicate the performance of an index as closely as possible. Unlike actively managed funds, ETFs do not aim to beat the market. After the NFO subscription...