Balanced funds are suitable for investors who have low-risk appetite or are new to equities.Those with more than seven-year investment horizon should look at funds that have higher equity exposure.
Access to India's defence market must be made conditional -- available only to those who are ready to make a long-term commitment in India, argues Ajai Shukla.
The textiles sector was most affected witnessing a massive drop in contractual employment as outward shipments shrank
The offshoring model may still have tremendous scope but there are some serious concerns worth keeping an eye on.
Pointing at the value arbitrage in drug discovery that India offered, the government has invited the United States companies to forge partnerships with domestic biotech firms for research and development.
In October, the contribution through SIPs rose to Rs 79.85 billion, up 42% compared to the same month last year.
Five key capital market announcements from the previous Budget.
Fintechs need to behave with responsibility and transparency. A lot of mis-selling has been happening. Other issues have been plaguing the fledgling industry -- high interest rates, even higher processing fees, harsh collection process and, most critically, data leakage leading to rampant frauds, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'Real estate loans are given in the garb of retail loans, sourcing money cheap from the NHB refinance window.' 'This loophole is being plugged,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'For the same level of return, you can reduce portfolio volatility significantly with a 10% to 15% exposure to international funds.'
The grey market operations in the Indian international telephony sector has been a worrisome norm resulting in losses of Rs 1,800 crore.
Nasscom and the Chinese government have given the task of creating a matchmaking platform to Zeta-V, set up in June 2017 in Shanghai by Sujit Chatterjee, former CEO of TCS China, and Rangarajan Vellamore, former CEO of Infosys China.
'The true fruits of the attack on black money, what Raghuram Rajan did for the banking system, and what technology is doing for us will come in FY19, which, not surprisingly, is the year running up to the next Lok Sabha elections.'
In the first part of a series on how foreign portfolio investment is driving the Sensex, Janaki Krishnan and Rakesh P Sharma examine what it is that is drawing these funds to the Indian equity market
Out of the top 11 Asia Pacific economies, the average monthly Indian starting salary was ranked ninth.
Assume that the rupee will trend lower over the next 10 years as India increases overseas sovereign exposures, and your long-term asset allocation should be geared to deal with this trend, suggests Devangshu Datta
Market recovery on the cards in 2014 as investors are likely to chase higher yields
'At this time, staying in the game is more important.' 'If we do that, then wealth can be generated.'
If an equity share is purchased before January 31, 2018, at Rs 100 and the highest price quoted on January 31, 2018, in respect of this share is Rs 120, there will be no tax on the gain of Rs 20.
Inflows of hot money or short-term funds by way of non-resident Indian deposits are not expected
'In my 20 years, I have never seen such high rates.'
Bond market expects the Reserve Bank of India to cut the repo rate after the government buys back gilt worth over Rs 84,000 crore (Rs 840 billion), hopefully this month.
Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.
The external affairs minister also made it clear that with Pakistan, the issue is not Article 370, the issue is cross-border terrorism and the first thing that has to come to table for any talks with Pakistan has to be the terrorism issue.
If your equity gains are less than Rs100,000 in a financial year, you can breathe easy.
'The world has changed and nobody has the patience to start a project and wait for six months to look at the outcome.'
19% of 320 institutional investors managing $1.3 trillion prefer India as investment destination in 2017
Capital gains tax is no longer exempt even for investors coming via Mauritius, hence FPIs are now classifying it as interest income to save on taxes.
In the past five years, the US has seen nearly two dozen Bills on employment visas introduced without success. But this time it is different, industry sources tell Ayan Pramanik.
India's cash-rich promoters are not the same as the wealthiest. For example, Mukesh Ambani is the richest Indian based on his stake in Reliance Industries, followed by Premji, the Adani family of the Adani group, and Radhakishan Damani of Avenue Supermarts.
