Vidya Bala
Vidya Bala was the Head of Mutual Fund Research at FundsIndia
FundsIndia Views: What’s driving the GDP
September 6, 2018The 8.2% real GDP growth for the June quarter left many analysts and economists surprised. Notwithstanding the low base effect, especially in the manufacturing space, experts acknowledge the numbers as…Continue Reading
Mutual funds are not for ‘sale’
August 28, 2018“At @paytm Money, we want to become the wealth advisor to the auto rickshaw guy and a shopkeeper. If the auto guy earns extra Rs 500 on a certain day,…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: UTI Medium Term
August 15, 2018UTI Medium Term is a superior alternative to owning the recent spate of NCDs or corporate FDs on offer. The fund has a portfolio of high and medium quality papers…Continue Reading
Why your bank deposit rates won’t go up much
August 13, 2018With the RBI hiking repo rate for the second time this year on August 1, you may be hoping that deposit rates will soon climb back to the 9% plus…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: The final debate on FD vs. Debt funds
June 27, 2018For many of you, looking at the latest FD interest offered by banks and comparing it with the past 1 year returns of debt funds serves up an easy conclusion.…Continue Reading
Reliance Quant fund: The arrival of new-age ‘smart’ funds
June 6, 2018If you followed developed equity markets in the rest of the world, you would have read that index and ETF-based investing are often touted to be the smart, efficient way…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: Why you should not be exiting debt funds now
May 30, 2018If you were to look at the year-ago returns of many of your debt funds and the current returns, you will wonder if you made a wrong choice in investing…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: SEBI’s new categories – what’s changing in your equity funds
May 9, 2018A month ago, we wrote about what SEBI’s scheme re-categorization means for you. Now, with a good chunk of the changes announced by AMCs, we’d like to get into what…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: Why people are exiting their real estate investments
April 25, 2018When there is a trend to the behavioural pattern of our investors, we like to understand it. The current trend we are observing in our investors and many around us…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Views: Scheme re-categorization and what it means for you
April 4, 2018You would have been receiving mails from fund houses and from us on changes in scheme categories of funds, to fit into SEBI’s newly defined categories. If you are not…Continue Reading
