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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India's most wanted micro caps
The Indian micro cap space is extremely risky and is very different to crack. We tell you how to separate the wheat from the chaff. We will also tell you what are the top picks for FIIs and mutual funds

How to buy businesses with long-term visibility
We used Warren Buffett's advice to create some pointers on how to find companies that will survive and thrive comfortably in the long run

Confessions of an equity analyst
An equity analyst reveals what matters and what doesn't in equity research

On the edge
We found a number of companies which may slip into losses if the interest rates in the economy rise or their profit fall

Taxation boost
These companies have shown greater profits or lesser losses due to significant tax write-backs

How to pick your starter funds
With SEBI's recategorisation of hybrid funds, their suitability as starter funds has become clear-cut. We tell you what are best funds and which funds you should avoid

Spotlight
The HDFC Group is known for its high-quality corporate culture. But its AMC listing has raised some questions. So, we spoke to Milind Barve, MD, HDFC Mutual Fund on the company's IPO, flagship funds and the recent fund recategorisation

Interview
Aarati Krishnan speaks to Sankaran Naren, CIO & ED, ICICI Pru Mutual Fund, about what investors should do amidst a sliding rupee, rising crude and expensive stock valuations

The Plan
Praveen, a software professional, has twins and is concerned about their primary and higher education. Read our financial plan for him

Should an investor worry about macros?
Jai and Veeru debate whether an investor should pay attention to macros such as currency fluctuations and oil prices

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

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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