If you have an investment horizon of 10 years, you should invest in equity mutual funds schemes. Here are our recommended equity mutual fund SIP portfolios ( Best mutual funds to invest in 2017 ). Choose a portfolio based on your risk profile and SIP amount.If a particular scheme is underperforming its benchmark and category by a wide margin for more than one year, you should find out the reasons for its underperformance . If the reasons are not satisfactory, you should stop your investments, sell your investments and shift the money to a better scheme in the same category. Do not keep investing in a bad performer.

Source: Economic Times November 24, 2017 05:04 UTC