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FundsIndia Reviews: Kotak 50

Bhavana Acharya

A fund with a patchy track record, Kotak 50 has begun to strongly outshine its benchmark, Nifty, over the past year. We therefore decided to check the fund’s performance to…Continue Reading

Quality stocks have historically provided better safety

Bhavana Acharya

While the banking sector faces serious concerns, NBFCs are the way to capture an economic turnaround, feels Kartik Soral, Fund Manager-Equity, Global Asset Management at Edelweiss. From April this year,…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Recommends: Tax-saving Funds

Bhavana Acharya

There are several investment avenues doubling up as tax-savers under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act’s capacious umbrella. And at Rs. 1,50,000, the Section 80C limit is no mean…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Recommends: UTI Equity Fund

Vidya Bala

UTI Equity may be called a late bloomer, especially given that its performance became more conspicuous only after its rechristening in July 2005 (from its erstwhile name of UTI Mastergain).…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Reviews: Religare Invesco Growth

Bhavana Acharya

One fund that has quietly made a strong comeback in recent times is Religare Inveso Growth, a large-cap equity fund. Its one-year return of 13 per cent places it above…Continue Reading

Looking to ‘master’ money? This book could show you the way

FundsIndia Desk

At FundsIndia Marketplace, we always aim to provide our readers with useful investment news and advice. While most of this comes from our own team, we know that there are…Continue Reading

How The Amtek Auto Crisis May Affect You

FundsIndia Desk

Amtek Auto has defaulted on its payments, leaving many investors anxious about the status of their investments in the JP Morgan India Treasury Fund, and the JP Morgan Short Term…Continue Reading

Why passive investing is not random in India

Nilakantan Rajaraman

The Mathematician George Spencer-Brown, in his book, ‘Probability and Scientific Inference’, tells us something remarkable. In a random series of 101000007 zeroes and ones, there are likely to be 10…Continue Reading

Changes to FundsIndia’s Select Funds List

Vidya Bala

For those of you who are new to our platform, FundsIndia’s ‘Select Funds’ is a list of investment worthy funds. Spread across various categories, this list helps you narrow down…Continue Reading

FundsIndia Views: The Promise In Consumption

Bhavana Acharya

A boost to consumption is one of the several positive outcomes of Tuesday’s sharp rate cut. It adds impetus to the nascent recovery in consumption, and growth will be quicker…Continue Reading