A fall presents an opportunity to buy rate-sensitive stocks.
If you leave too much money lying in your trading account or hand over your securities to brokers, there is always the risk that they could use it to trade in the markets.
With the introduction of 10 per cent tax both on long-term capital gains and on dividend, choose funds based on investment horizon and risk appetite, not on tax advantage, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh.
'The only good thing is people will not be required to maintain their medical bills and invest time in that.'
Prepaid one offered by HDFC Bank and Apollo Hospitals gives discounts but one needs to spend it at designated hospitals and pharmacies to avail benefits
If you plan to withdraw money from your corpus regularly to meet expenses, have a portfolio of stable instruments.
A market correction is a good time to reassess the quality of your portfolio and purge the poor quality names from it, says Ramesh Bukka
'The amount involved could as high as Rs 3,500 crore as there are a lot of depositors.' 'Yesterday, I met an investor who put in Rs 4 crore. That man doesn't have Rs 2,000 to spend on medicines.'
Since 2005, in 8 out of 10 years (except in CY11 and CY14) the benchmark indices have given positive returns in December.
Systematic withdrawal plans in equity funds can spell trouble in a falling market, points out Deepesh Raghaw.
A source said Sebi planned to tag brokers based on their performance on areas such as compliance, investor protection and arbitration.
On maturity, 40 per cent of the accumulated corpus can be withdrawn tax-free.
The category average return of mid-and-small-cap funds is 95 per cent.
RBI recently hiked LRS limit to $125,000 or Rs 7500,000 as on Aug 19 with $/rupee rate of 60
While there is little one can do when the fund house restricts redemptions, it's best to exit even if it means some losses.
Sensex remained volatile through the day.
Women have been leaving the investment decision to husbands.
Retail investors usually get caught up in the frenzy of a bull market and burn their fingers in IPOs, warns Tinesh Bhasin.
This route accounts for Rs 2.75 lakh crore of FPI holdings.
A lot of people are hesitant to use this route because of the heavy turnover of these assistants.
About 55 per cent of the public offers that hit the market since 2008 are still trading below their issue price.
Analysts agree China, Greece and US Fed developments need careful monitoring but India should gain, over time, from relative rise of the dollar and fall in commodity prices.
There cannot be value in every stock, whether large cap or otherwise. Thus buying a stock cheap does not always translate into value buying
Paid Rs 15,474 cr against CIL's Rs 13,075 cr in FY15
There are few strategies to invest safely in a volatile market.
Markets taking cue on future rate cuts from RBI policy.
Market experts say booking profits could be unwise. If you are nervous, go for dividend-yield stocks.
If you are one among the millions of existing borrowers who are paying a higher interest rate compared to new borrowers of the same bank, make your shift now, before prepayment charges make it more expensive.
When you pay by cash, the pain is the highest and when you pay by credit card, the pain is reduced considerably.
EPFO may start investing up to five per cent of its incremental corpus in the equity market.
Reliance Industries was the top Sensex gainer up 5.6% after the company reported better-than-expected net profit growth at 12% in the second-quarter aided hby higher gross refining margins.
The 40 per cent exemption benefit is applicable only for employees.
All sectoral indices, led by realty, PSU, oil & gas and banking, were in positive zone with gains of up to 1.25 per cent.
According to Rahul Rege, business head (retail) at Emkay Global Financial Services, it is difficult to track more than 10 stocks.
When the bull run begins its march again, it will really be different!
The government has become used to accounting for TDS as its income even though it knows a significant portion needs to be returned as refund
Laggards yet, a number of smaller PSBs in the category have balance sheets which do not give much comfort.
Laggards yet, a number of smaller PSBs in the category have balance sheets which do not give much comfort.
With a rise of around 30 per cent in the benchmark index S&P BSE Sensex, 2014 has been the best year for Indian equity markets since 2009, when the benchmark index surged 81 per cent.
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