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.

Funds' favourite mid and small caps
While the market indices have staged a smart recovery, broader markets that comprise mid and small caps continue to languish. We find out mid and small caps on which fund managers are most positive. When a market-wide recovery will arrive, these mid and small caps are likely to be the most promising bets.

Sensex turns 40
While the Sensex came into being in 1986, Sensex returns data is available since 1979. If you are interested in more such interesting facts and data, the special report in this issue is just the right place.

In a fix? Here's help.
Fixed-maturity plans have been hitherto considered safe. That's no longer the case. Exposure to Essel, IL&FS, and Reliance Home Finance and Reliance Commercial Finance has hit FMPs hard. What to do now? The cover story has the full action plan.

Interviews
In two separate interviews, we talk to Nilesh Shah of Kotak AMC and Arvind Chari of Quantum AMC to get an industry perspective on the ongoing FMP crisis.

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

Written in a simple language, this handbook brings together resources and information on all savings and investment options available in India. It also highlights the factors that you should look out for before taking any investment decision.

The purpose of this book is to present information, thereby empowering you with investment decisions. Once you have gone through the details of each financial instrument, the book leads you to plan your taxes and helps you with various strategies that you can adopt to optimise your tax liabilities. Now, you don’t need to be an expert or have financial qualifications to manage your own money because you already have all you need: a desire to know and the availability of knowledge.

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 24 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
• Covers the recently launched pension scheme—Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan
• 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 the latest provisions of Union Budget 2019-20

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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