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The rising price of the precious metal has helped the central bank increase overall forex reserves despite currency reserves not rising, and sometimes even falling.
'In most schemes, where the monthly investment is a fixed amount, investors run the risk of the price of gold rising during the tenure of the recurring deposit,' notes Harsh Roongta.
Despite its recent underperformance, gold must be a part of your portfolio.
Young investors could allocate in the proportion of 70:20:10 to equity, debt and gold.
Gold deposited by households to gold savings accounts will be used for auctioning, replenishment of RBI's gold reserves.
'Avoid going overweight on gold. But maintain a 10 per cent allocation via sovereign gold bonds,' Bajaj Capital MD Sanjiv Bajaj tells Sarbajeet K Sen.
There are 350,000 jewellers, of which 13,000 are BIS-certified.
Gold loans can be released online or by bank transfers.
Foreign investors continue to pull back money from the Indian equity market withdrawing a little over Rs 30,000 crore in the first fortnight of the month amid escalation in global trade tensions. This came following an outflow of Rs 34,574 crore from equities in February and Rs 78,027 crore in January.
This is good news for the central government at a time when crude oil prices are rising.
Look at gold bonds or gold monetisation scheme instead of buying physical gold
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At a time when the whole world is going ga-ga over stocks and debt is too easy to borrow, do not forget gold, says Anil Rego.
The government was also faced with problems on its balance of payments. It took steps to conserve declining foreign exchange reserves, and began to regulate the production, supply and distribution of gold. It banned forward trading in the yellow metal in November 1962, and introduced gold bonds as well, reveals the RBI's annual report for the year ending June 1963.
It makes sense to wait for govt schemes such as gold bonds.
'Gold could return 10% to 12% in the next two-three years.'
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'Each state is unique, but when it comes to finance, the fundamentals cannot be different.'
The recently approved government scheme provides both liquidity and returns.
India will also launch a sovereign gold bond to lower physical demand.
For easy and wide access, the government plans to market the bond through post offices and various brokers.
Chirag Mehta, senior fund manager -- alternative investments at Quantum AMC, shares his views.
Investors should allocate 10 to 15 per cent in their portfolios to gold through sovereign gold bonds.
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'He has been one of the clearest thinkers in the history of business.'
It plans to use it as collateral, along with forex reserves, to print currency.
'Gold could benefit from the resulting risk aversion, as happened last year.'
Given the economic trends, it might make sense to allocate some savings to gold.
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The Bureau of Indian Standards has certified 33 hallmarking centres in the country to act as collection and purity testing centres for the gold monetisation scheme.
Towards the end of February, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) restored the risk weighting on banks loans to non-banking financial companies (NBFCs; including to microfinance institutions, or MFIs) to 100 - back to its November 2023 position - from 125. It is only a partial relief though. "Higher risk weighting on unsecured lending continues to be in place while the same on bank funding to NBFCs has been done away with. "This is a positive step by RBI," says Rajiv Sabharwal, managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO), Tata Capital.
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The government should partner with commodity exchanges such as MCX.
Anil Rego, founder and CEO of Right Horizons, an end-to-end investment advisory and wealth management firm with multi-metro presence, will answer all your queries in an online chat on October 27, between 2 pm and 3 pm.
'You should always maintain an allocation to gold as it has the ability to counterbalance any correction in the equity market.'
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