Do you know: Investing just Rs. 2000 per month through SIP for 15 years at 15% would become huge Rs. 30 Lacs, which you could use for your child’s education, her marriage…

When you’re married with kids, your life-stage goals could be:

1. Expenses on children’s education
2. Expenses on children’s marriage
3. A dream vacation
4. Building a retirement corpus
5. Maintaining an emergency fund

Work, Family, Friends, and the things you enjoy are important in your life. But getting your financial life in order is the …

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Do you know: When you’re married, investing just Rs. 5000 per month through SIP for 10 years at 15% would become huge Rs. 13 Lacs, which you could use for the downpayment of your house…

When you’re married, your life-stage goals could be:

1. Saving for the down payment of a house
2. Building a retirement corpus
3. Maintaining an emergency fund

Work, Family, Friends, and the things you enjoy are important in your life. But getting your financial life in order is the priority. …

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Do you know: When you’re single, investing just Rs. 5000 per month through SIP for 5 years at 15% would become huge Rs. 4.5 Lacs, which you could use for further studies, marriage…

When you’re single, your life-stage goals could be:

1. Continuing higher education
2. Getting married
3. Saving for the down payment of a house

Work, Family, Friends, and the things you enjoy are important in your life. But getting your financial life in order is the priority. What you do, or don’t …

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As an investor you would have faced the dilemma of trying to reconcile between your desire for higher returns with the need to limit the potential downside on your investments.

ICICI Prudential S.M.A.R.T. (Structured Methodology Aiming at Returns over Tenure) Fund is a close-ended fund that is designed to address the above investor dilemma.

How S.M.A.R.T. fares in comparison with other instruments…

1. Direct equity investments

When markets go up, you profit … When markets go down, you may lose …

2. Debt …

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