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Episodes from Value Research
The 2026 Scam Looks Like Advice.
Four frauds, three questions, and why being clever is no defence.
The Points You Do Not Own
Investors spend hours defending their reward points but ignore the cost that quietly shrinks their savings every year
Only 7% of life insurance payouts are death claims
IRDAI's own consultation paper shows surrender payouts are five times larger than death claims. This industry is not selling protection. It is selling an exit.
Why No Two Multi-Asset Funds Are Alike
Dhirendra Kumar explains why two funds in the same category can be two very different products, and the one document that tells them apart.
Buying the fund house
Judging listed fund houses by the metric that matters most
Retirement's biggest risk is an empty afternoon
You spent 35 years learning not to react. Then you retire with time, a corpus and a phone, and the habit that built the money starts working against it.
3 Rules for a Small-Cap SIP
Dhirendra Kumar sets three entry conditions for small caps, and says all of them are compulsory.
The three-year wait
A four-test method for judging funds still finding their feet
Who really pays for India? It's not who you think
Why the '2-3 per cent pay all the tax' argument gets the maths wrong
A Rs 10 fund may look cheap. It isn't: NAV illusion decoded
Why the NAV of a mutual fund doesn't indicate its price and what you should actually pay attention to
The Premium My Father Sold
A shortage explains why a premium can exist, but the crowd's behaviour explains why it reaches 80 per cent in just a few days
The first SIP at 40: what 20 years can still build
A late start is common in India. Dhirendra Kumar explains where the money should go from here.