10 investment mistakes to avoid & make your portfolio ‘dent-proof’

Building a portfolio with the right strategy can be a life-changing decision. Investors often fall for the wrong products without understanding the markets, investment basics, and trends. This leads to losses in their portfolios in the long term. In an ET Markets Exclusive interview, we spoke to Chirag Muni, Executive Director of Anand Rathi Wealth … Read more

Hungry for returns, investors SIP on stocks

(This story originally appeared in on Apr 10, 2024) MUMBAI: An army of retail investors has found a strong footing on Dalal Street over the last decade thanks to a bullish market and a pandemic-driven digital push. In April 2015, India had just over 2 crore individual demat accounts – the actual number of investors … Read more

ET Mutual Funds Explains: When to use CAGR, XIRR or IRR to calculate your mutual fund returns?

An investor before choosing a mutual fund scheme to invest always looks for the past performance of that scheme. Ever wondered why the returns are expressed in different nomenclatures? Why are they written as CAGR, IRR or XIRR? ETMutualFunds made it easy for the first time investors to understand what these nomenclatures mean and how … Read more

SIP: SIP account additions accelerate further in February

ET Intelligence Group: The systematic investment plan (SIP) route continues to attract new retail investors amid soaring equity benchmark indices with no signs of exasperation. New SIP accounts opened in February were 2.3 times more than the ones that were closed according to the data from the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). The … Read more

equity: Equity funds report 35th consecutive month of net inflows

Mumbai: Investors continued to buy equity mutual funds adding ₹21,781 crore in January, making this the 35th month of consecutive net inflows. These inflows climbed 28% from ₹16,997 crore in December. Contributions through systematic investment plans (SIP) surged to a record high of ₹18,838 crore in January higher by ₹1,228 crore than December’s ₹17,610 crore. … Read more