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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

You are perhaps familiar with mutual funds and the fact that you can purchase and sell units of the mutual fund through any distributor. When you do so, you ...

ULIP costs – lining advisors pockets

Kartik Jhaveri writes about how you can lose a lot of money by blindly following insurance advisors. (“How Mr. Singh lost 24 lakh just like that“). ...

Mutual Fund Dividends: Playing with your own money

Some mutual funds offer dividends and then put up big advertisements about them, to the lines of “XXX mutual fund offers 260% dividend on ”. They ...

Value Cost Averaging

Happy New Year everyone! I’ll start this year with an investment concept called Value Cost Averaging (VCA). This is a regular investment strategy which ...

Futures and Options: An introduction

Futures and Options (F&O) is a famous phrase used by TV channels, web sites and in conversation nowadays but many of you many not familiar with the ...
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SIPs are not necessarily less risky, or better for the long term

Systematic Investment Plans or SIPs are now touted around by mutual funds and advisors as the best way to invest in a volatile market, and that small investors ...

The Dividend Yield Strategy for Mutual Funds

There is an interesting way to make better use of mutual funds. The Dividend option of mutual funds offers money to investors regularly, and the growth option ...

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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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 ...

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 ...