'Gold could benefit from the resulting risk aversion, as happened last year.'
The past few years have seen the first cycle of mergers and acquisitions, exits, and track-records being created.
'This is the first time we will see how SIP investors react to market correction.'
Mutual funds (MFs) lapped up shares of new-age businesses in April at a time when most of these stocks have recovered sharply from their 52-week lows. Nykaa and Zomato featured in the list of top 10 most bought shares by MFs last month, with fund houses' holdings in these two stocks rising by over Rs 1,100 crore, shows a report by Nuvama Alternative & Quantitative Research. Shares of Zomato had staged some recovery in April after remaining subdued for an extended period.
'I don't think we have ever seen such alignment of everything that we need in the banking sector.'
Importing gold widens current account deficit, channels domestic savings into personal investments and of course forces domestic entrepreneurs to scout for foreign funds, writes M R Venkatesh.
The regulations will only apply to the share purchases that have been done after October 1, 2004
Paisa Bazaar, which recently forayed into online mutual fund distribution, has come out with a 20-second video clip featuring Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar. The ad, which talks about the benefits of investing in direct plans, has already got 1.6 million views on YouTube.
Black money can take the form of a high-end property in Southeast Asia, a cruise ship floating on the Mediterranean or blue-chip shares held via an offshore fund manager.
To invest $1 bn in realty sector, mulls new funds; has done exits worth Rs 8,000 crore, says founder
'Non-par plans returns are not market-linked. Hence, they can offer guaranteed returns.'
Experts attributed the inflows to sudden rally in gold prices, mainly due to uneasy trade negotiations between the US and China and lower than expected global GDP growth.
'...over the long-term can be done only by investing in equities.' 'And during weak macros, one needs t1o allocate more than drawing it down, because they offer the best entry point.'
The BBC said on Tuesday that it is "fully cooperating" with the Income Tax authorities who are at its offices in New Delhi and Mumbai and hoped that the situation will be resolved "as soon as possible".
Long-term funding was a requirement for infrastructure projects, and asset-liability mismatch in the banking system, impacts the access to finance for infrastructure projects. One of the key challenges would, however, be to get private sector back into investing.
Meanwhile, investors pulled out a record $14.45 billion out of bond funds tracked by EPFR Global, as fears that US monetary policy will tighten in the second half of the year prompted more investors to head for the exits.
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Fix India's real estate sector. Fix India's public sector banks, advises Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Improved credit profile may make you eligible to transfer your existing home loan to another lender at a much lower rate.
Should taxpayers invest in Rajiv Gandhi Equity Saving Scheme to save tax? How much tax will they actually save? And what are the pros and cons you should check out before going for this scheme? Salil Dhawan offers his take.
Subramaniam feels it does make sense to have some overlay in lump sum if one has the cash to do so.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
What if you could have an option apart from personal loan in times of crisis?
Tencent reinforces India's consumer internet story. Ranju Sarkar reports.
When the third round of bids was opened, Oaktree's offer was the highest, but with several riders. While Piramal offered higher upfront cash and offered to merge its financial business with DHFL, Adani was ranked third in the race, reports Dev Chatterjee.
In a fresh ponzi clampdown, Sebi on Wednesday barred Kolkata-based Rose Valley group from raising public money in the name of 'holiday membership' scheme, through which it is estimated to have garnered over Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) without necessary regulatory approvals.
Tightening Initial Public Offering (IPO) norms, capital markets regulator Sebi on Friday cleared the proposal mandating the issuers to disclose the offer price based on past transactions and fund raising activities. In addition, the board of Sebi approved a proposal introducing an alternative mechanism by permitting "pre-filing" of offer documents for companies contemplating IPOs. Under this, an issuer should make "pre-filing" of offer documents with Sebi and stock exchanges without making it available to the public for an initial scrutiny period only.
'I started reading your MF articles regularly so requesting your guidance as I would like to start investing in MFs'.
Abu Dhabi wants to build the world's first car-free, green-powered city by 2016.0
This could become tricky territory for India, given its basically adversarial relationship with China, its moves to block imports and investment from that country, and to deny market access for Chinese technologies, observes T N Ninan.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
While an impending rate cut is a good reason to enter debt funds, another is the high valuations in equity markets.
Liquidity, stable income generation, potential capital appreciation are the benefits from REITs
'Given the worries about sluggish growth, rising interest rates and likely volatility, it's quite logical to infer that the SIP route could be the preferred way of investing.'
India is only on the starting block.
Financial assets make a comeback as returns on physical assets falter.
As India's stock rises, the resolution of the border row may become even more difficult, warn Harsh V Pant and Kalpit Mankikar.
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