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

Finding value stocks
Pockets of value lie even in the current market. We have done some filtering and analysis to find two lists of stocks - one which investors should stay away from, the other where investors can unearth value opportunities

Market barometer
Here is a series of parameters that will help you understand if the current market is overheated

Institutional moves
Here are the companies in which domestic mutual funds and insurance companies have significantly changed their holdings over the last quarter

Winners of the corporate tax-rate cut
We have used some stringent filters to find a list of companies that would gain from the government's proposed tax reduction

The smart way to lose
Find out why chasing fund portfolios blindly is a losing strategy

Why your debt fund is losing money
For debt fund investors, 2017 has been a shocker. Read the cover story to know what tripped up the returns and what should investors do next

Category Watch
Read our holistic analysis of the equity-oriented hybrid fund category. Also, find out about the 7 funds that we have recommended

Penny wise, budget foolish
Making yearly changes to your portfolio to counter Budget provisions is a losing strategy. Aarati Krishnan writes why

How I did it
70-year-old S Ramjee, took to equity when the mutual fund industry was still nascent. His decades-long experience can impart a solid education to today's investors

When the tide goes out
A report on the funds and AMCs that have the highest exposure to public sector banks

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

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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.

Investing Perspectives is a resourceful book that aims to give you an end-to-end guidance on value investing. It encompasses 5 main sections

• An 11-part section that encapsulates Warren Buffett's wisdom on value investing
• A tutorial on spotting companies with moats
• A discussion on the stock-picking methods of five well-known value gurus, namely, Benjamin Graham, Walter Schloss, Joel Greenblatt, John Neff, and Peter Lynch.
• Interviews with 11 well-known value investors and fund managers
• A crash course on the most common investing misjudgments and errors, as noted by Charles Munger