Last week, small savings rates payable for Jan to Mar 2018 were cut by 0.2%. As an investor, you feel unnerved and are thinking if there is something else that needs to be done to get the most of our of your investments. Should you invest in bonds / debt funds? If yes, where? What […]
The tricky aspect of saving for your child’s education
Child’s education is a very close to the heart dream for any parent. Who doesn’t want to provide the best children to their child? But sometimes there is a conflict between serving your own goals and those for your child. The way to resolve the emotional conflict is to first understand the numbers and then […]
Kotak Select Focus Fund – What you need to know!
Continuing with our series of dissecting funds with large asset growth, today we take up yet another darling of the investors – Kotak Select Focus Fund. This is a fund which has become 4 times in size over just the past 2 years. What is clicking for this fund? Let’s find out. Let’s start with […]
The most important life & investing lesson from Alice in Wonderland
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” – asked Alice. “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where-” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. The above conversation takes place between […]
SBI Magnum Balanced Fund – The cost of trust is huge!
Do you know which is the largest mutual fund scheme in India? No, it is not an equity fund, not even a debt fund. The largest scheme by size is HDFC Prudence – a hybrid equity fund. And it is not alone in the largest funds for this category. There is HDFC Balanced, ICICI Pru […]
Nifty Next 50 – Is this the Gold for passive investors?
You believe active investing is overdone. That fund managers are overrated. They use ill-structured index benchmarks to show alpha where none exists. In the garb of this false alpha, they rip investors off with the exorbitant fees. For you, index funds and ETFs are the God’s gift to investors and his Avatar is none other than […]