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.

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The 'Best Funds' book (earlier known as 'Mutual Fund Yearbook') is an invaluable resource for fund investing in India.

The latest edition is a unique and comprehensive guide to Indian mutual funds. It contains data on about 2,000 mutual funds across all categories. The scorecards in the book have all the necessary updated data like fund ratings, performance, risk measure, portfolio and expenses.

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 investments and how to use the tools and data on Value Research Online to that effect
• A set of funds cherry-picked by our analysts to help you build the perfect investment portfolio for any investing need
• Detailed scorecards of all the available mutual funds

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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