The Union Budget 2026-27, announced by the central government on February 01, 2026, places national security at the core of India’s modernisation, self-reliance and innovation priorities. The Ministry of Defence has received the highest-ever allocation of Rs 7.85 lakh crore, an increase of 15.19 per cent over the Budgetary Estimates (BE) of FY 2025–26, accounting…
SIP Investment Plan: Suppose you gave yourself a target of 10 years to build a sizeable corpus of Rs 1 crore. This may sound unrealistic, but you must know that in the capital market, choosing the right equity mutual fund along with the right investment strategy could help the investor build a substantial corpus over…
The market has remained weak in March 2026. The Nifty declined by 11.3 percent — a drop considered significant. Consequently, the total Assets Under Management (AUM) of mutual funds fell by 10 per cent to Rs 73.7 lakh crore, and equity AUM also witnessed a decline. However, the banking sector continued to attract the highest…
Banking still rules MF portfolios: When talking about mutual funds, according to Motilal Oswal’s latest mutual fund data for March 2026, banking stock continues to dominate portfolios and at the very top sits HDFC Bank. The latest data for March 2026 highlights that private banks remain the largest sectoral allocation in mutual funds, with a…
Sector Investment Trend Healthcare Increased Utilities Increased Telecom Increased Oil & Gas Increased Consumer Increased Metals Increased E-commerce Increased NBFCs (Non-Lending) Increased Sectors with reduced exposure On the other hand, sectors including Private Banks, Automobiles, PSU Banks, Capital Goods, NBFC–Lending, Insurance, Cement, and Consumer Durables saw reduced exposure, indicating a more cautious stance by fund…
5 high-performing flexi cap funds: According to SEBI, a Flexicap fund is an equity-oriented mutual fund that can invest across large cap, mid cap, and small cap stocks without any mandatory allocation to a specific market-cap segment, and it must invest at least 65 per cent of its total assets in equities and equity-related instruments….
Mutual Fund Returns: Several mutual fund schemes have delivered annualised returns of 18 per cent to 20 per cent over the past 15 years, whether through SIPs or lump sum plans. As a result, investors’ money grew at least 13 times over those 15 years. Investors who invested Rs 10,000 monthly in SIPs accumulated a…
SIP vs Lump Sum Investment: To find out which could generate a higher corpus, we took a certain amount for the comparison and calculations. The amount may differ, but the total investment is nearly the same. Which makes it easy for you to make a firm decision. For instance: Monika and Meena are two friends…
Small SIP, Big Returns: Can a monthly SIP of Rs 2,000 in a mutual fund create a corpus of over Rs 3 crore? This is a basic question that pops up in our heads when we come across such articles, and then the curiosity to learn about it is common. Therefore, to satisfy your curiosity,…
Four sectoral and thematic funds were launched in March, the ITI Business Cycle Fund, LIC MF Technology Fund, Baroda BNP Paribas ESG Best-in-Class Strategy Fund, and Canara Robeco Banking and Financial Services Fund, which collectively raised Rs 1,347 crore. Among these four funds, the Baroda BNP Paribas ESG Best-in-Class Strategy Fund contributed the highest amount,…
