For the last 15 years, Mutual Fund Insight has been a treasure trove of investment wisdom. It has helped investors learn about investing and become financially independent.

The Way to Save & Prosper is a compilation of 22 useful and timeless articles from Mutual Fund Insight. Divided into three sections–Insights, Concepts and How to Invest–this book will not just tell you about the basics of investing and financial planning but also help you start and carry out the investment process. It will provide you with the framework to think through all the questions crossing your mind on savings, retirement, insurance and wealth.

Cover Story

Where to invest in 2018
Our research threw up 4 sectors that still offer value and hold the promise of broad industry growth in the year ahead. Read our detailed report and also find the select stocks in these sectors

What Value Funds are buying now
Tracking value funds can provide fundamentally sound investment ideas. So, we have tracked what the 7 biggest value funds have bought in the last six months

Your tax-saving action plan
As this financial year draws to a close, we give you a comprehensive guide to all the tax-saving investment avenues

Investing in quality businesses the Buffett way
We have applied the oracle's observations and advice in the Indian to find examples of several low-quality and high-quality businesses

Three years to double
We have found 9 stocks that have a history of doubling their profits every three year

YOUR INVESTMENT STRATEGY POST BUDGET
After LTCG tax was introduced in the Budget 2018-19, your mind must be brimming with questions about its impact on your equity investments. We tell you how to deal with it in our cover story.

CATEGORY WATCH
We have suggested some ELSS funds to help you plan your tax savings.

SPOTLIGHT
Santosh Kamath, MD&CIO- Fixed Income, Franklin Templeton Investments chats about ratings, investment lessons and potential risks with Aarati Krishnan.

HOW I DID IT
Vijay Athlye has seen his father very vulnerable when he lost all his retirement money in stocks. But that hasn’t deterred him in any way. He started investing in mutual funds ardently until he clocked the magical one crore mark. It is an inspiring story and a must read.

THE PLAN
Dhananjay has made some smart investments for the future. But he needs to reduce the number of funds in his portfolio for better outcome. Heeding to this advice is relevant for you too.

The Best Funds book (earlier known as Mutual Fund Yearbook) is an invaluable guide to fund investing in India, including a set of hand-picked funds to build your investment portfolio

The latest edition is a unique and comprehensible guide to mutual fund investing in India. It contains complete scorecards of over 2000 mutual funds across all categories. The score cards are replete with all the necessary updated data like fund ratings, performance, risk measure, portfolio and expense data.

Some of the key aspects of the book include:

• A how-to guide on building a winning portfolio
• A complete tutorial on how to track your portfolio and how to use the tools and data on VRO to that effect
• A set of 54 funds (comprising every category), cherrypicked by our analysts to help you build the perfect investment portfolio
• Detailed scorecards of all the available mutual funds
• SIP returns of all funds over 5 years old

COVER STORY

All of us dream of becoming rich and retiring wealthy, but short of winning a lottery that involves hard work. It also means homework to sift through various options of saving and investing money.

The Savings and Investment Yearbook is a comprehensive and easy-to-read guide on all the savings and investment avenues available to you. Whether you are single or married, young or old, a first-time investor or a veteran, this guide can help you plan your financial future. With this book, making informed decisions will be piece of cake.

Here are some of the salient features of the book:

• Each chapter addresses common investor concerns such as risks, safety, guarantees, key benefits, minimum investments and lock-in details.
• Divided into 8 parts, the book gives complete details on 23 different savings & investment avenues, from bank deposits to government-saving bonds to mutual funds to stocks.
• It answers all your basic queries on health insurance and life insurance.
• It will tell you how to minimise taxes on various investments.
• For senior-citizens, this book lays out saving schemes and pension plans.
• It addresses all the investment and taxation queries of NRIs.
• The handy tips will tell you how to make investments easily and even online.
• The information on the book is updated with latest provisions of Union Budget 2017-18.

THE BOOK

There's a good chance that you have invested in the funds they manage or the stocks they recommend. But, before this, you probably didn't get a chance to learn about them and their work up-close. So, here's a book that delves deep into the journeys and minds of five of India's brightest investment minds:

Raamdeo Agrawal: Co-founder, Motilal Oswal Financial Services
Sankaran Naren: ED & CIO, ICICI Prudential AMC
Prashant Jain: ED & CIO, HDFC AMC
Mahesh Patil: Co-CIO, Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC
Nilesh Shah: MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra AMC

Anuj Shah has penned his interactions with these great minds in a highly simplified and interesting manner that no stock investor should miss.