In an hour-long chat on rediff.com, financial planning expert Sailesh Multani offered some valuable tips.
Tax-saving investments should not be made with the sole purpose of saving tax, but should also help an individual grow his wealth, suggests Archit Gupta, founder and CEO, ClearTax.
Investing in mutual funds regularly can give you great returns. It can even make you a millionaire.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
What should investors do when markets hit an all-time high, and we have seen five new all-time highs in 2023? Dwaipayan Bose has some answers.
Experts say investors should stay patient and stay invested in mutual funds.
Do you know how easy it is to do your own financial planning? Just follow these five golden rules and you can achieve financial freedom for you and your family?
Ask rediffGURU and PF expert Milind Vadjikar your insurance, stocks, mutual fund and personal finance-related questions.
The assets under management of the 44-players mutual fund industry stood at Rs 24.55 lakh crore in May-end from Rs 23.93 lakh crore in April-end.
Insurance firms have designed amazing retirment plans to lure more customers.
The mutual fund industry's QAAUM (Quarterly Average Assets Under Management) was up 37 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) (9 per cent Q-o-Q) to hit Rs 59 trillion (end Q1FY25). The equity segment grew 55 per cent Y-o-Y and equity formed 56 per cent of total AUM, up 49 per cent in Q1FY24. Sequentially, AUM grew by Rs 5 trillion.
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SIPs keep MFs afloat as investors redeem Rs 1.3 lakh crore in one year
Where should you invest your money in the New Year? Financial planning expert Vetapalem Sridhar has some answers.
rediffGURU Dev Ashish answers your personal finance and mutual fund queries.
Out of 3,871 recovery certificates issued by the regulator in various cases, 807 have been certified as difficult to recover.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
In the last few months, the 10-year G-Sec has been gyrating sharply and has crossed the 9-per cent-yield mark four times.
Invest in liquid funds if you have a horizon of three months, ultra-short-term for six months, and low-duration funds for one year.
Jimmy Patel, MD & CEO, Quantum Mutual Fund, suggests some valuable financial gifts for your children.
An improved showing of mutual funds (MFs) is helping the industry attract distribution talent at a brisk pace. The industry has onboarded a net of 11,600 individual distributors in the first seven months of 2023-24 (FY24) compared to just 5,555 distributors in the whole of 2022-23 (FY23), according to data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India. Like most financial products, MFs also have significant reliance on individual distributors to sell their products, even as digital platforms are gaining popularity.
Long-term investors should never stop their SIPs during market corrections.
With this, total inflows have reached Rs 3.98 lakh crore in the first 11 months of the current fiscal (2016-17). In comparison, Rs 2.07 lakh crore was invested in various mutual fund products during April-February period of 2015-16.
Ulhas Joshi, Head -- Sales, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Whether you're a young professional, a seasoned entrepreneur, or someone simply looking to take control of your financial future, adopting these principles can be life-changing, says Ramalingam Kalirajan
'Investors need to find out how the FMP's assets are distributed and ensure the investments are in high-quality names.'
'Debt mutual funds are a good option now because interest rates are coming down.' 'Retail investors must put a majority portion of your money in short-term debt funds (1 to 3 years) and only a small portion in actively managed dynamic funds.'
Investors have pumped in nearly Rs 54,000 crore into various mutual fund schemes in January, with liquid, income and equity funds attracting the most of the inflows.
rediffGURU and financial planning expert Colonel Sanjeev Govila (retd) answers your personal finance-related questions.
Tata Mutual has launched an infrastructure fund for investors keen on keeping pace with the huge growth in the infrastructure sector in India.
After heightened activity in 2024, there has been a slowdown in new listings, with no main-bourse IPOs hitting the market in the past three weeks due to a correction in the secondary market. This slowdown in IPO activity is reflected in the numbers, as only five companies went public in January and four in February, compared to 16 listings in December 2024.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Such schemes try to exploit an anomaly in taxation, but aren't in violation of laws, experts say.
P V Subramanyam takes a hard look at the pros and cons of both options.
The mutual fund industry's assets under management (AUM) have likely breached the Rs 50 trillion mark following a rally in domestic equities this month. The industry's average AUM stood at almost Rs 48 trillion at the end of October. In November, the Nifty50 index has gained about 4 per cent so far, while smallcap and midcap indices have rallied close to 8 per cent.
Rebalance your portfolio in case it has become overweight on equities vis-a-vis your strategic asset allocation.
Now STPs or variable SIPs can earn better returns than vanilla SIPs.
'BSE has facilitated nearly Rs 35 trillion in capital raising across multiple segments.'
