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Tipping point: Should investors take a contra bet on small-cap funds now?

The correction of the past year has brought greater sanity to valuations

Tipping Point: Should you buy gold bonds on exchanges?

If you plan to buy SGBs on an exchange, avoid taking tactical exposure to benefit from arbitrage opportunities, as you might also need to sell them at a discount

Bet for at least three years if you invest in corporate bond funds

If you invest with a horizon of more than three years, you will be entitled to indexation benefit

Tipping Point: Buy a house before the window of opportunity closes

Recent numbers show that the worst may be over for the residential market.

Tipping Point: Stick to active funds in the mid-cap category

A third mid-cap ETF has just been launched by Reliance

Tipping Point: Should you mimic the stock picks of fund managers?

Fund managers sometimes buy index stocks to ensure returns at par with the benchmark

Tipping Point: Returns of longer-duration funds have perked up recently

Keep 20-30% of debt fund exposure in dynamic bond funds

What you should do if your fund is among the worst performers?

Always select funds based on their past performance over different periods

Actively managed funds underperformed indices in year to June 2018: Report

This is not surprising, given that the markets turned from being strongly bullish in 2017 to completely bearish in 2018

Tipping point: Why is it important to choose a fund that declines less?

The difference between the best and worst performing fund in each category is 15-30 percentage points, or even more

Tipping point: Have you taken excessive risks in liquid funds?

As the recent IL&FS fiasco showed, such risks can come back to haunt the fund

Tipping point: Market seeks refuge in US-based funds to counter rupee fall

Though returns from most categories of equity funds turned negative over the past month, US-focused funds are still rising

Tipping Point: Will gold shine again if the US Fed fails to hike rates?

The global trade war, too, could affect the volume of trade, and hence, global growth. So far, gold has been held in check by the strength of the dollar

Tipping point: Can MNC funds be an alternative to large-cap schemes?

The companies are global brands with strong fundamentals and are usually cash rich, which makes them attractive, especially in volatile markets

Tipping point: What is electronic PAN and how to apply for it

To apply for e-PAN, one needs to have an Aadhaar with an updated mobile number

Tipping Point: What risks do investors face in corporate bonds?

The paper also warns that the share of risky bonds could rise from 18 per cent to 27 per cent if rates on corporate bonds were to rise by 2 percentage points

Tipping Point: How should buyers use persistency ratio?

A high persistency ratio indicates that past buyers have liked the company's products and hence stuck to it

Tipping Point: What happens if you miss the June 15 advance I-T deadline?

Paying the advance tax on time helps you plan your tax liability over the year rather than paying at one go at the end of the financial year

Tipping Point: Why you should not always invest in highest dividend payers

The highest dividend payers are often not able to sustain those high dividend payouts

Tipping Point: What is a value trap?

When you invest in such stocks, you are said to have fallen into a value trap