Retail investors should park only a small portion of money in arbitrage funds.
According to sources, the government will have to allow a minimum of 51 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the multi-brand retail, the same as was permitted in single brand retail.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
After the collateral debt obligations crisis, all the other 'quants' have been lumped together as fast dancers who do amoral complex things. This is an understandable perception, but unfair.
Gold prices plunged on the bullion market in New Delhi on Wednesday on aggressive offloading by the stockists and traders, sparked by a sharp fall in overseas markets. Silver, too, met with frantic selling pressure due to the prevailing overall trend. Standard gold (99.5 purity) tanked by Rs 305 per ten grams to close at Rs 17,305 from overnight's closing level of Rs 17,610. Pure gold (99.9 purity) dropped by a similar margin to end at Rs 17,395 from Rs 17,700 on Tuesday.
As much as Rs 8,000 crore worth of mobile phones in this segment - out of a total of Rs 15,000 crore - come into the country through the grey market. The government imposed the duty on these phones primarily to encourage domestic production but the strategy has failed as the bulk of high end mobile phones are currently imported.
Despite lay-offs and the threat of automation, the industry will continue to be an important driver of growth in employment and GDP, says Ashok Soota.
'Aggressively stepping up vaccinations will constitute the most enduring stimulus of all in the coming quarters,' observes Sajjid Z Chinoy, Chief India Economist at J P Morgan.
Equity MF schemes recorded worst inflows in three and a half years at Rs 1,311 crore for November. Investors across the board have taken money off the table as markets have scaled new highs. Industry experts said SIPs had stayed intact, which is a healthy sign for the MF industry.
It is, thus, logical that some compensation is paid to a lender, especially when a customer is poached within two years, Parekh noted.
Every political party loves to use the bait of loan waiver to woo the electorate. If their hearts bleed for the poor, they can always use the party funds to pay off the lenders, suggests Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
According to the author, the rationale behind job-switching is that a year or so at the mid-managerial level in some large BPO is supposed to be a ticket to the senior management level somewhere else in the industry.
The industry's operating margins will narrow by 0.30- 0.80 per cent largely on an increase in local hires which the industry has been forced into due to the policy framework in its markets.
The first major devaluation of the rupee happened in 1966 when it was pegged against the US dollar at Rs 4.75/$
Technology, not just cost, is key to IT's future.
PNs allow such investors (primarily hedge funds, other leveraged investors and high net worth individuals) to enter and exit the India market without the need to register and establish settlement facilities and other requirements. Since it has been difficult for regulators to know those using PNs, questions on the source of such funds have risen.
If each one of us puts our minds to it, 2015 will be a year to remember, he said
Pick two strongly related stocks with a constant price differential and then, trade in them when the differential changes.
Experts say the impact on the schemes' NAVs may vary in the coming days, depending upon how fund houses treat the developments on VIL and whether there are any further rating downgrades or credit events.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's decision to cut arbitrage may ensure that the standards of purity of the refined gold in the Indian market meet the global benchmark
Growing protectionism in their main markets - the US and the UK - has forced them to hire local workers, upending the cost arbitrage model they had built their business on.
The RBI had raised the issue with thegovernment, stating that foreign banks buying majority stakes in non-deposit-taking NBFCs (NBFC-ND) would provide room for regulatory arbitrage.
Futures trading in commodity markets is a booming business these days in India. But not many people know the technical terms used in commodity futures trade. Check out below the technical jargons of commodity futures explained in simple language.
India has been able to attract 40 global smartphone makers to the country -- creating at least 50,000 jobs. But GST could hurt that, discovers Ayan Pramanik.
Futures trading in commodity markets is a booming business these days in India. But not many people know the technical terms used in commodity futures trade. Check out the technical jargons of commodity futures explained in simple language.
The exchange, say sources, began mock trading from early October and around 250 Indian brokers have said they'd take membership of the international exchange.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
IT industry hiring big time, but quality concern persists.
The technical jargons of commodity futures explained in simple language
"Hooking" is an endemic crime -- if you live in India, you've used "hooked" power.
The current (third) decade of IT services is based on process improvement and creation of intellectual property
'The focus for IT companies will shift from adding scale to building a smaller, more specialised, talent pool with specific domain expertise,' says Shyamal Majumdar.
The worst may perhaps be over for these stocks, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
The Indian IT industry's ambitions of becoming the primary destination for legal process outsourcing may fall short as myriad issues ranging from dearth of professionals to lack of cost arbitrage would clamp it down.
Foreign portfolio investors, on the other hand, have been net sellers in the markethaving pulled out Rs 8,600 crore
