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.

Outlook for 2019
Investors should brace for a bumpy ride in 2019 due to a number of global and domestic factors, including a delay in earnings recovery, interest-rate tightening in the US and the outcome of the general election. Read our cover story to know market experts' outlook for 2019.

How to assess a management the Warren Buffett way
Assessing management remains one of the most difficult activities of stock investing. Our story helps you understand how you can do it.

NPS or MUTUAL FUNDS?
Which is better for your retirement? Last month the government proposed a bunch of tweaks to streamline the NPS and make it more appealing. Read our cover story in this issue to understand how it compares with mutual funds now.

OUTLOOK FOR 2019
We also bring to you the views of top mutual fund CIOs on equity and debt market outlook for 2019

TOP TRENDS OF 2018
The last year was a very eventful year for the mutual fund industry. We bring to you the most notable changes and developments.

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 as per SEBI's reclassification exercise. The scorecards 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 49 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

Savings and Investment Yearbook has assumed a new avatar. Your Guide to the Best Investments is a comprehensive and easy-to-read guide on all the savings and investment avenues available to anyone in India.

This time around, we have expanded the scope of this annual help book in a significant way. Each investment alternative now carries guidance for its suitability. You can learn who or what it is suitable for, what it is NOT suitable for, as well as the available alternatives.

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, alternatives 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 through 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 2018-19

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

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.

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