Vidya Bala
Vidya Bala was the Head of Mutual Fund Research at FundsIndia
FundsIndia Recommends: Tata Dividend Yield
January 7, 2014For a Contrarian Bet We start the first recommendation for this calendar with an offbeat choice – Tata Dividend Yield. Most of you would have been put off by the…Continue Reading
How to use double indexation to reduce your taxes
January 4, 2014With just 3 months to go before the financial year ends (March 31), you will hear the term, ‘double indexation’ more often, especially in the context of products such as…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommendations: A Round Up
December 31, 2013Our Hits and Misses for 2012-13 As we bid goodbye to 2013, it would be incomplete if we did not take stock of how the fund recommendations and reviews we…Continue Reading
2014 – 5 New Year’s resolutions for mutual fund investors
December 27, 2013Tell me; of the many new-year resolutions that most of us have in mind, shedding those extra kilos would surely be one of them? At least for a good number…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Strategies: Should you invest based on one-year performance?
December 24, 2013What the one-year fund returns chart won’t tell you It’s that time of the year when you will have the media telling you how your investments panned out in 2013.…Continue Reading
Why equity outperforms other asset classes
December 20, 2013Have you ever wondered why equity is universally acknowledged as an asset that delivers superior returns over other asset classes such as debt or gold in the long term? The…Continue Reading
“Time spent in the market more important than timing the market”
December 19, 2013Should investors look for more clarity to emerge from elections before deciding to invest? While this may be an emotional factor, for equity investors, inflation, interest rates and expectation of earnings…Continue Reading
RBI provides temporary relief to your debt portfolio
December 18, 2013The Reserve Bank of India surprised markets today by deciding to keep the repo rate and CRR unchanged. This came as a surprise, after the over 11% consumer price inflation…Continue Reading
FundsIndia Recommends: Franklin India Smaller Companies
December 17, 2013A Fund to Ride in a Recovery In our newsletter last week (click here to read it), we mentioned that we would identify funds that may be well-placed to ride…Continue Reading
Why you need mutual funds for retirement planning
December 16, 2013For most of you, holding an EPF account with your company or investing separately in PPF could be the only retirement plan in place. This means of saving may have…Continue Reading
