Mutual Funds

Investing in India This guide is part of our Investing in India hub. Passive investing — buying the whole index instead of paying someone to pick winners — has gone from fringe idea to the fastest-growing corner of Indian investing. This guide explains how index funds and ETFs actually work, the differences that matter between

Investing in India — Bridge Article This is a short bridge article by design — part of our Investing in India hub. Mutual funds are the single most useful vehicle for most Indian retail investors, which is why we’ve already written a full 15-article pillar on them. This page explains in five minutes what mutual

Part of our complete guide to mutual funds in India. This is an educational explainer of common errors, not personalised advice. Here is the uncomfortable truth at the heart of investing: the biggest threat to your returns is not a bad fund, a market crash, or a recession. It is you. Decades of evidence show

Part of our complete guide to mutual funds in India. This is an educational explainer of how to assess funds, not a recommendation of any fund. Almost everyone evaluates a mutual fund the same wrong way: they look up its recent returns, see a big number, and conclude it is a good fund. This single

Part of our complete guide to mutual funds in India. This is an educational explainer of portfolio concepts, not personalised advice or a recommendation of any strategy. Setting an asset allocation is the easy part. Keeping it — and pointing it at something that actually matters in your life — is where most portfolios quietly

Part of our complete guide to mutual funds in India. This is an educational explainer of portfolio concepts, not personalised advice or a recommendation of any allocation. Most investors spend ninety percent of their energy on the wrong question. They agonise over which fund to buy, when decades of research point to something humbler and

Part of our complete guide to mutual funds in India. This is an educational explainer of risk concepts, not a recommendation of any fund or strategy. Most investors judge a fund by one number: its return. But return alone is half a story told loudly. The other half — how much risk the fund took

Part of our complete guide to mutual funds in India. This is an educational explainer of how to read fund documents, not a recommendation of any fund. Every mutual fund publishes a one or two-page summary every month called a factsheet. This Mutual fund factsheet is the single most useful document a fund will ever