Readers of MoneyLIFE are not new to market indices and representative sampling. You sample investment products from a vast array of companies and banks, with the object of picking a few to manage intelligently. Indices are another means to check your portfolio’s health. But would just 30 companies of the Sensex give you a feel of corporate India? The authors of Innovative India apparently...

Balanced funds are beating their benchmarks by taking a higher exposure to equities. Stay away from them, says ML Research Desk

Mutual funds are categorised in different style boxes such as growth funds, income funds and debt funds, which invest in a specified class of securities. Despite the fact that equity indices have gone up by five times in the past four years, the bulk of the money...