One of our subscribers, Binay Bist, has an interesting view on the fund industry

The mutual fund industry is once again in the news for the wrong reasons. Like the bumbling Keystone Cops, it can never get its act right. Paul Volcker (former chairman of the US Federal Reserve and currently economic advisor to the Obama administration), in a recent interview, expressed concern that money...

Are you the kind who wants mutual funds to perform but not give you heart attacks when the market crashes? Here are 13 schemes from eight fund houses that may be worth looking at. Debashis Basu and Swapnil Suvarna analyse

What is the best way to choose a mutual fund? There are no easy answers. If you go simply by performance, you will have to decide about the period for which you are...

Will mutual funds now actually search for and know their customers?

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred the funds industry from charging upfront fees for selling fund schemes. The idea is to force distributors to actually serve retail investors. But what would be the impact of this on fund companies?

The mutual fund business is structured in a strange fashion....