Yield To Maturity What is the yield? Yield is the measure of cash flow of an investment over a period of time. It is expressed as a percentage. It considers all dividends or interest received from the investment during the...

medium duration funds Introduction Medium duration funds are open ended debt mutual funds that are mandated to invest in securities with maturity around 3-4 years. These funds are subject to interest rate risk. The fund manager of these funds is...

blue chip funds What are blue chip funds? As per SEBI's categorization of mutual funds, there is no official category for blue chip mutual funds. However, many mutual fund houses and advisors use blue chip funds as a synonym for...

tax saving mutual funds Introduction Investing in mutual funds has become very popular lately. These mutual fund investments offer investors a chance of making investments in various financial instruments. The benefit of mutual fund investments is that they provide better...

international mutual funds Introduction Currently, one can observe that there has been a lot of buzz around international equity funds in the mutual fund domain. These funds have become popular over the past year. This is due to US markets...

The Government of India needs money to meet its financial obligations. They approach the general public to raise funds. The funds can be raised by offering different financial instruments. Treasury bill is one such money market instrument that the government...

best saving plan Definition of Savings Plan Savings is something one does to achieve some long or short term goal. Savings can be a child not spending the pocket money given to him/her to buy something he/she likes later. Or...

solution oriented mutual funds Introduction Solution Oriented Mutual fund is designed to help an investor achieve composite goals like marriage, child education, retirement planning are achieved. Of late there have been various categories of the fund in India like equity...