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What’s the Difference between Shares and Mutual Funds
What's the difference between shares and mutual funds? We explain in this short ...
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Invest in the Reliance Long Term Equity Fund?
Reliance Mutual Fund has opened a new fund offer for a fund called Reliance Long Term Equity Fund Type: Closed ended Equity fund (3 years) after which is ...
Stocks
Invest in the HSBC Tax Saver NFO?
I don’t recommend the HSBC ELSS offering, called HSBC Tax Saver Equity fund. (See this for some other comments) Here’s what I think. 1) It’s ...
Foundations
Automatic Capital Gains Tax Calculator: Interested?
I am planning to write a utility that will extract data from my online trading account and automatically calculate my year’s capital gains tax and split ...
Commentary
LinkFest #1: How to select a fund, Managing Investments etc.
This is going to be part of my LinkFest Series: A set of links organised for you every week. How to select a Diversified Mutual Fund – Personalfn If you ...
Foundations
Mutual Fund NFOs have Hidden Costs
New Fund Offers (NFOs) by Mutual Funds are common. In fact they are touted by most distributors saying “NAV is only Rs. 10!, buy!” But should you ...
Foundations
Glossary of Investing terms, Part 1
Everyone who’s new to investing finds the terminology intimidating. Most investment articles, including mine, use terms like NAV, P/E, ratios, corpus, ...
General
The Investment Game Plan
A little insight into how you should invest. 1. Figure out where you are The first thing to do is to prepare a personal balance sheet of sorts. Describe your ...
General
How Much Insurance Do You Need?
This is perhaps the most often asked, and misunderstood question. Insurance advisors will tell you that you need to be covered for a sum that looks big (like ...
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