Reinvest your dividends! Studying the Sensex data since 1996, we saw that over a 10-year period, a lump sum investment with dividends reinvested back would give at least a 2 percentage point higher annualised return compared to without it. Though a 2 percentage point difference seems small in itself, the compunded return over 10 years is certainly not.

This article was originally published on September 09, 2013.