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To be or not to be in the market?

Vidya Bala

The S&P BSE Sensex fell 3% in the last one month and as if that weren’t enough, bond yields have been moving up since May 22, causing a fall in…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Reviews: NFO of MOSt Focused 25

Vidya Bala

A focused bet on quality stocks Asset manager Motilal Oswal would be graduating from passive fund management in equity mutual funds to a more active strategy, with the launch of…Continue Reading

Should you have sector funds in your portfolio?

Vidya Bala

For those of you not new to mutual funds, the above question would have crept in your mind at least a few times in the past couple of years. Many…Continue Reading

Mutual fund labeling: What colour is your fund?

Vidya Bala

Come July 2013, mutual funds are set to become more colourful; literally! We are talking of the new SEBI’s circular on product labeling in mutual funds. What exactly is product…Continue Reading

Should you choose the dividend option or the growth option?

Vidya Bala

“Should I go for growth option or take out the dividends in my fund?” – is a question frequently asked by many of you, when venturing into mutual fund investments.…Continue Reading

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Mutual funds – 2012 performance round up

Vidya Bala

It was not a particularly easy year for the mutual fund industry. Regulatory changes at a frequency that was hard to keep pace with, fund manager churns, big ticket takeover…Continue Reading

Are you better off investing lump sums?

Vidya Bala

A recent article in Time magazine’s Business section quoted a report from fund house Vanguard that said investors with lump sum were better off investing in the markets all at…Continue Reading

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Change in cut-off time

Srikanth Meenakshi

Due to recent SEBI regulations, we are announcing a change in the cut-off time for some mutual fund transactions effective immediately. Background: As part of the many changes that SEBI…Continue Reading

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Who do we represent? AMC or the Investor?

Srikanth Meenakshi

An interesting twitter conversation ensued today between CIEL’s Uma Shashikant and Mint’s Hindustan Times’s Gautam Chikermane. It started with a conversation that Gautam had with Raghuram Rajan in which the latter…Continue Reading

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SEBI’s new mutual fund regulations – what is the real impact to retail investors likely to be?

Srikanth Meenakshi

After weeks of deliberations, SEBI has come out with its new regulations for the mutual fund industry.  Currently, it is a press release which means we only get the outline…Continue Reading