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Bond Funds: Right Time To Jump In?

Jason Monteiro | 12/6/2013 @ 11:34am

Bonds schemes have delivered substantial returns over the past year. Such high returns are hard to come by. Should you invest in them? More

Equity mutual funds suffer massive redemption of Rs6,580 crore in May

Moneylife Digital Team | 10/6/2013 @ 3:45pm

Sales of equity mutual fund schemes may have marginally increased, but huge redemptions led to a net outflow of Rs3,357 crore in May 2013. The business will not revive unless the fund companies and the regulators take responsibility for their actions. More

JP Morgan Balanced Fund: Nothing new to offer

Moneylife Digital Team | 31/5/2013 @ 5:03pm

Balanced schemes have not been great performers in the past. Would the new scheme from JP Morgan deliver? More

Churning Funds Is Detrimental to Returns

Moneylife Digital Team | 29/5/2013 @ 11:28am

Those who churned made 3.8% per year,whereas those who kept their investments earned 5.3%. More


Mid-caps beat large-caps with higher returns, lower volatility says CRISIL

Moneylife Digital Team | 28/5/2013 @ 5:52pm

Mid-cap indices and funds have shown lower volatility and higher returns compared with large cap indices and funds says a study conducted by the ratings agency More

Should You Chase the American (Equity) Dream?

Moneylife Digital Team | 28/5/2013 @ 12:10pm

US Equity Schemes made available to Indian investors have delivered scorching returns over the past five months. Should you consider these schemes for your portfolio? More

Why don’t funds promote trail commissions instead of upfront commissions?

Moneylife Digital Team | 24/5/2013 @ 4:00pm

The reason is they are beholden to large distributors to sell their schemes. And these distributors are more interested in churning and therefore upfront commissions. They have no interest in promoting long-term investment in equities and earning from trail commissions More

BOI AXA Equity Debt Rebalancer Fund: A dynamic scheme aiming to time the market

Moneylife Digital Team | 20/5/2013 @ 5:15pm

A handful of dynamic schemes vary their allocation to equity according to a pre-defined formula. Some of these schemes have done no better than any other equity diversified schemes. Would the new scheme from BOI AXA Mutual Fund be any better? More

Mutual Funds: Debt ULIPs Popular; Stay Away

Moneylife Digital Team | 16/5/2013 @ 6:03pm

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Hybrid Gold Schemes: No Golden Touch

Jason Monteiro | 15/5/2013 @ 12:11pm

When hybrid schemes with gold in their asset mix were launched, we had suggested you stay away. That suggestion has proved right, writes Jason Monteiro More

Best & Worst Mutual Fund Schemes

Moneylife Digital Team | 15/5/2013 @ 10:42am

The best# three and the worst three schemes over the past three years, in different categories. This time we have considered only those schemes having a corpus above Rs100 crore More

Equity MFs continue to suffer outflows; net outflows of Rs270 crore in April

Moneylife Digital Team | 14/5/2013 @ 10:14am

After a month of positive inflows in March 2013, equity mutual fund schemes witness another round of outflows in April More

Truth about Mutual Funds – II: Avoid these common mistakes to really benefit from mutual funds

Nilesh Kamerkar | 30/4/2013 @ 10:27am

This is the second of a two-part series on essential facts about mutual funds. The first part explained 15 reasons why mutual funds are good for you More

Truth about Mutual Funds – I: Fifteen reasons why mutual funds are good for you

Nilesh Kamerkar | 29/4/2013 @ 10:46am

This is the first of a two-part series on essential facts about mutual funds. The second part will discuss the common mistakes people make and end up losing money and faith in mutual funds More

Axis Small Cap Fund—Beware of the risk

Moneylife Digital Team | 25/4/2013 @ 6:13pm

Five years is a reasonable time-frame for equity investments, but at the same time returns of small-cap stocks can be volatile. Would this five-year close-ended scheme deliver? More

Mutual Funds: IDFC MF Launches a New Fund

Moneylife Digital Team | 22/4/2013 @ 11:44am

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Mutual Funds: MF Investor Accounts Dip

Moneylife Digital Team | 22/4/2013 @ 11:43am

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Mutual Funds: MF AUM Rises to over Rs8.16 Trillion

Moneylife Digital Team | 22/4/2013 @ 11:42am

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Mutual Funds: Direct Plans Bring in Significant Inflows

Moneylife Digital Team | 22/4/2013 @ 11:39am

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