It boosts confidence to investors sitting on the fence.
Retail investors have never had it so good in terms of diverse products from mutual funds.
UTI Mutual Fund recently launched Gold Exchange Traded Funds and many more companies plan to follow suit. Get the lowdown.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
We all need an expert whose advice you can trust, who will not start pushing products at you and rather help you understand why your wealth is not growing as it should, says Erik Hon.
There is little sense in trying to find stocks that will not be vulnerable in a situation where 87% of the market is trending down and India is getting set for a crucial election, says Devangshu Datta.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
There is polarisation among sectors with IT and healthcare receiving the lion's share of FPI money in the past two quarters.
Total assets under management (AUM) for September stood at Rs 20.4 lakh crore compared with Rs 20.6 lakh crore at the end of August.
Education inflation abroad is high and the depreciation of the rupee can also set you back, says Vishal Dhawan
The move is meant to curb or reverse the export of India's financial markets to overseas trading platforms.
In a live chat on rediff.com on Wednesday, July 16, 4 pm, Feroze Azeez, will offer some valuable suggestions on investments.
Irrational behaviour, born out of incomplete understanding, biases, overconfidence, fear or greed, has led investors to make less than half of what they could have in the capital markets, says Erik Hon.
Globally, jewellery buying fell 14%, investment slid 11%.
Investors should look at actively managed funds, says Devangshu Datta.
Investment guru and mutual fund expert Ashok Kumar, answers all your MF related queries.
Do keep the tax impact and exit load in mind before you take a decision to sell, says Vishal Dhawan.
The finance ministry had last year notified a new investment pattern for EPFO.
An open letter written by women employees of KFA alleged that the company did not pay salaries
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
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Returns on godl have depleted in past few years,
The Finance Ministry has been pitching for EPFO funds to be invested in the equity markets to maximise their yields.
The US has deployed its elite counter-terrorism unit Delta Force for covert operations in Iraq to capture or kill high-ranking Islamic State operatives and gather intelligence, according to a media report.
Strategy being reworked to launch ETFs, revive Suuti; proceeds may be Rs 24k crore
Quite a few large- and mid-cap stocks are yet to recover from the note ban, pharma, banking and rural demand-based industries among laggards.
Despite the low prices, commodities are risky investments
Indian Air Force and the army flew 2,223 sorties, shifted about 11,200 people to safer places and transported and dropped about 1,700 tonnes of relief material.
Except for liquidity, which could act in favour or against the market in the short term, most market participants are bullish.
India's public debt decreased marginally to Rs 46,25,037 crore (Rs 46.25 trillion) at end-March 2014 from Rs 46,29,689 crore (Rs 46.29 trillion) at end December 2013.
'As the interest rates rise, people are going to say why should I be taking big risks when I can get 4 to 5 per cent in a bank account.' 'So, I think you have to change your thinking.' 'You need to look at the balance sheet, look at dividends.' 'These issues that have been ignored.'
Bull run in the markets is likely to continue for next 5 years, says Motilal Oswal MD.
To be fair, one year is too short a period to judge the schemes' performance.
Debt funds have exposure of nearly Rs 8,000 crore to Zee group papers. Aditya Birla MF, HDFC MF, Franklin Templeton MF, and ICICI Prudential MF have the highest exposure, reports Samie Modak.
Investors in exchange-traded funds can trade on bourses.
Equity debt, gold - these all are terms you may have heard of when reading on funds but not quite sure where to start with or which one most suits your needs.
While the April-February deficit is pegged at 5.3 per cent of GDP, the final print may be a tad lower due to revenue push and expenditure cuts seen in March, the last month of 2013-14 fiscal year, it said.
Going ahead, the likely implementation of the goods and services tax bill in July and how the monsoons play out will have a bearing on India's demand for gold and gold jewellery
Gold funds have returned -5.2 per cent, while the Sensex is down 7 per cent in the past year.
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