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Conservatism of fund managers can affect performance during recoveries and bull phases, says study

The need for health insurance changes from youth to old age depending on one’s lifestyle and genetics. ET Wealth tells you how much and what type of health plans you should have as protection against poor health through various stages of life.

14.2 percentage of the total population of the country suffering from mental disorders of varying intensity, as of 2017. This is 197.3 million people or one in seven persons. However, the question is can you buy health cover for mental illnesses.

MS Excel's Solver is an optimisation tool that aims to calculate the value of a variable while incorporating changes in the multiple variables of a financial equation. This also includes any user-defined constraints or conditions.

Since 1 April, the 10-year bond yield has till now averaged 6.07% and currently stands at 5.85%, which clearly means a rate cut is in the offing for small savings schemes.

The first step of a financial plan is to make sure that your insurance needs are covered. The ongoing pandemic has reinforced this importance. Follow our step by step guide to find out how much life insurance cover you should have.

Banking & PSU debt funds are required to invest 80% in instruments issued by commercial banks and public financial institutions. Corporate bond funds are also required to put at least 80% in AA+ and higher-rated corporate bonds. Does that make them risk-free?

The personal finance crisis that the pandemic has brought upon many of us has made the need for better planning more urgent. For many of us, this full-blown, elaborate goal-based system may become a little too much work. Here's a simpler system.

Index funds and ETFs mirror the index they track. So, the safety that you get in an index fund is relative and is directly proportional to the risk associated with the index.

Like most other industries, the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has impacted all types of insurance, including life, general and health insurance.

More than 70 percent of the companies or 48 out of 64 companies have given negative returns to investors in the last year. Out of 48, there are 20 stocks that have fallen over 50 percent in the same period.

‘All penny stocks is something investors should avoid’

It’s time for Father’s Day celebrations. On Sunday, you can gift something nice to your dad. If you are adventurous, you can even take him out and share a meal with him.

Debt mutual funds was safe - or everybody thought so until the IL&FS episode. Suddenly, debt funds started gaining notoriety as downgrades or defaults hit them with regularity in a slowing economy, before falling into the clutches of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

The total SIP book dropped to Rs 8,123 crore in May, the lowest in the 11 months. It fell by nearly 3% sequentially for the second month in row.