Islamic India, a Euro 20 million fund launched in Germany in January this year, is set to make its debut in the Indian equity market in a couple of weeks and expects a five-fold growth in its corpus within a year
With the market zooming up one day and plunging the next, analysts think it's best to wait and watch in this volatile situation.
Mid-sized Indian IT companies are increasingly adopting the Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds route to raise funds.
Brokerages are stepping up the gas on internet trading, targeting young office-goers and home keepers
Lower price-earnings ratio, big IPOs attract players.
Fund managers said they were now waiting for first-quarter results of IT firms, which begin with Infosys Technologies next Wednesday (July 11), to decide their investment strategy for the sector.
The global funds are gung-ho about the prospects of India's real estate sector and have committed billions of dollars, but the Indian mutual funds are treading cautiously.
The domestic mutual funds such as Reliance Mutual Fund and Tata Asset Management Company are in advanced talks with global fund houses and investment advisors, in an attempt to offer global investment products to their Indian investors.
After a plethora of mergers and acquisitions, domestic firms are finding the European island a suitable place to set up subsidiaries to carry out global buyouts.
The Indian mutual fund industry's assets under management race from Rs 3 trillion to Rs 4 trillion has come in just nine months.
India's biggest realty firm, DLF is betting on special economic zones (SEZs). The zones will cover an area of 26,100 acres and the company expects to take control of the land in the next two years.
Indian bourses are likely to benefit from higher foreign fund flows as cracks appeared in the Chinese stock markets after the government tripled the tax on securities transactions to cool a rally.
Raghavendra Kamath and Ashutosh Joshi spoke to Kushal Pal Singh on the growth of Indian realty story and issues surrounding it.
Systematic investment plans, through which mutual fund investors put a fixed sum into MF schemes, are proving to be engines of growth for fund houses with the number of SIP investors growing nearly three times since last year.
Mutual funds are set to bag a huge chunk of the nearly Rs 3,05,000 crore cash reserves of the public sector companies.
As much as Rs 3,204 crore (Rs 32.04 billion) of bank deposits by mutual funds will move out of the banking system from mid-July following a new rule
The investors who put their money directly in index-specific stocks scored over those who invested in mutual funds in April, as most fund houses gave returns of 5-6 per cent while the benchmark BSE Sensex rose by about 12 per cent in the month.
Investing in IPOs is not an easy task, especially when we see a lot of them list lower than the issue price
2006-07 saw mixed returns for mutual funds. Compared with the previous financial year, the returns have declined, mainly due to a fall in the stock prices. The net asset value of most equity funds fell nearly 10 per cent since January 2007.
Mutual fund houses are all set to expand the Know Your Client norm umbrella by introducing newer requirements like asking their high net worth investors to provide details of their big investments made in the past.
© 2025 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances