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HDFC Balanced is merging into another fund and will be called HDFC Hybrid Equity fund. What's in store for investors?

FundsIndia Views: HDFC Balanced is merging. Should you worry?

Bhavana Acharya

For investors in HDFC Balanced fund, last week dropped what seemed a bombshell. HDFC Balanced is merging into another fund. Is this worrisome? What changes in the fund? Should you…Continue Reading

Correcting markets are the best time to average using a SIP

Don’t stop your SIPs

Bhavana Acharya

With markets falling since February, worry over further corrections may tempt you into stopping your SIPs. But this is not the time to stop SIPs. Why? For a SIP to…Continue Reading

Why SIP when markets are going higher

Mutual Fund Research Desk

Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) enables you to buy mutual fund units periodically. Rupee-cost averaging is one of the widely known benefits of a SIP. Instead of buying 10 units at…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Views: 2018 Debt Market Outlook

Vidya Bala

These are extraordinary times. The equity market has rallied without earnings entirely coming on-board with hope that there would be an economic revival. The debt market on the other hand,…Continue Reading

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2017 – When mixing strategies paid off for our Select Funds

Mutual Fund Research Desk

After a frustrating 2016, the markets threw caution to the wind in 2017 and lifted many stocks whose names were last heard in the pre-2008 rally. While mutual funds too…Continue Reading

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What are the benefits of investing in mutual funds?

FundsIndia Desk

Investors are spoilt for choice when it comes to picking the best investment avenue – bank deposits, money market securities, shares, bonds, etc. Mutual Funds, owing to their well regulated…Continue Reading

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What is a mutual fund and why should you invest in it?

FundsIndia Desk

These days, you’re constantly bombarded with messages every day asking you to invest your money. Be it your parents, your friends, or ads (like AMFI’s Mutual Funds Sahi Hai series) on…Continue Reading

Think you don’t have enough to invest? You do!

Akash Kapur

Thanks to the general rise in financial awareness and the Mutual Funds Sahi Hai campaign by AMFI, most people now know how important it is to invest in mutual funds.…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Views: Why you need help choosing debt funds

Vidya Bala

Short on time? Listen to a brief overview of this week’s review. Most of you look at returns of equity mutual funds to pick a fund to invest. When the…Continue Reading

7 Reasons to start a SIP

Shweta Nichani

SIP – it’s the word you come across every day, in newspapers, online, hoardings, pamphlets, conversations with friends, colleagues or even neighbours. It seems like the word of the season,…Continue Reading