Experts say investors should stay patient and stay invested in mutual funds.
Smart investors fine tune their investments as per the Budget announcements to make the best possible use of tax deductions and other sops.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Leading up to the International Women's Day on March 8, this is the first of a four-part series that talks about how women can invest to achieve their long-term financial goals.
Only NIIF has stayed the course as a viable infrastructure financing institution.
To make money, invest in both good and bad times; otherwise the entire exercise is futile, experts tell Joydeep Ghosh & Sanjay Singh
rediffGURU Ulhas Joshi answers your personal finance and mutual fund queries.
Ulhas Joshi, Head -- Sales, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Investor interest in the mutual fund industry as an avenue to generate long term wealth creation is rising with SIP's asset base touching an all-time high of Rs 4.67 lakh crore at May-end. Over the past five years, the systematic investment plan or SIP AUM has grown 30 per cent annually, twice as fast as the growth in the overall mutual fund industry's assets under management (AUM). According to data released by Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) on Wednesday, SIP AUMs have seen a close to four-fold jump to Rs 4,67,366 crore as of May this year from Rs 1,25,394 crore as of August 2016.
Adopting overly aggressive strategies without considering risk could lead to significant losses during the next downturn.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Investors need to carefully assess country-specific risks. 'This is especially true of a market that is less transparent than the US.'
Follow these simple steps if you want to create a solid retirement corpus and retire young, says Anamika Pareek.
'The political situation in the country will depend on the electoral outcome in Maharashtra.'
'Indian investors have always been debt-heavy but with growing financial awareness they are getting comfortable with equities.'
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Investors with a long-term horizon and high-risk appetite seeking capital appreciation can consider investing in ELSS.
Given gains in equity prices, it is not surprising that the earnings of asset management companies (AMCs) are growing quicker. The earnings momentum looks set to continue. Good fund performances have thus led to AMC earnings upgrades although valuations are high. Recent market performance and net flow trends have led to earnings upgrades by between 3-8 per cent for FY25-27.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Want your investments to make money as well as save tax for you? Anil Rego has some advice
Rediff.com spoke to registered investment advisors to figure out how best the extra Rs 17,500 saved ever year can be invested to create a decent corpus in the years ahead. This is what they said.
Ideally, one should opt for a 5 to to 10- year period in an MF scheme or exit when the goal is reached.
'I've never done anything cliche and I've never got anything cliche.'
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
rediffGURU Vivek Lala answers your income tax and personal finance queries.
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'If their allocation to certain segments have become high due to strong returns over the past three-four years, they should rebalance their portfolios and bring them in line with their long-term asset allocation.'
rediffGURU Jinal Mehta answers readers' financial planning and health insurance queries
With this, the total SIP contribution in the first seven months of the current financial year rose to Rs 57,607 crore as compared with Rs 52,472 crore in April-October 2018, according to the latest data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi).
We do what the boss wants us to. And we do not mind putting body and soul on the line, notes Suveen Sinha.
rediffGURU Jinal Mehta answers readers' financial planning and health insurance queries
Currently, banks are closed every second and fourth Saturday of a month. Why shouldn't they be shut every Saturday? When most customers carry their banks in their pocket (the app on the mobile phone), there is no need to keep banks open on Saturdays, argues Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'In the short term you keep your return expectations very, very low; in the medium term be prepared to invest and in the long term growth will come and your returns from stocks will be high.'
Systematic investment plans (SIPs) from mutual funds have become very popular these days. But there are certain things that investors should keep in mind when starting an SIP.
Out of 3,871 recovery certificates issued by the regulator in various cases, 807 have been certified as difficult to recover.
It is often said, learn from your mistakes. We can twist that saying a little; learn from your mistakes and people who make mistakes. You do not have to make the mistakes to learn from them, says Priyanka Chakrabarty.
'For those seeking regular income, these funds provide a steady stream of income through dividends.'
Inflows into equity mutual funds (MFs) continued their strong momentum in July, despite the market volatility triggered by the Union Budget.
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