'We suggest an equity strategy of 5% to 10% exposure to cash, 5% to Gold ETF, close to 50% to Sensex/Nifty/large mid-cap stocks.'
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Spot gold slipped 0.2 per cent to $1,579.06 an ounce.
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The bulk of an investor's portfolio should be in shorter-duration funds of up to one year portfolio duration.
Gold prices are already moving fast to the key level of Rs 30,000 per 10 gms
In order to contain current account deficit, the Reserve Bank last month imposed restrictions on gold imports by banks and other authorised agencies.
In the past two years, investors in gold have lost money.
In recent months, the interest in gold has grown palpably among investors across the world. Among the key reasons contributing to this sudden interest in gold is the fact that other asset classes, like stocks and bonds, seem very risky today.
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On gold buying occasions such as Akshaya Tritiya, Chiraj Mehta points out, investors are often confronted with the question: Should I make just a token purchase, or should I buy more towards building my allocation in the yellow metal?
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India retains its number one position in gold consumption in 2009, recording a total demand of 405.8 tonnes.
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Analysts see steady long-term gains, say volatility to last for a short while.
Gold is often favoured as a hedge against economic and financial uncertainty
Tracking a weak trend overseas and low demand from domestic jewellers and retailers, gold prices plunged by Rs 200 to Rs 26,350 per ten gram in New Delhi on Monday.
Only 400 grams have been deposited so far.
The government has retained 10% duty on import of the yellow metal.
Other assets suffered badly, experts feel that the yellow metal and debt will continue good show.
Traders said fall in demand from jewellers and retailers due to end of festive season and a weak global trend where gold retreated from a six-week high as investors expected the Federal Reserve to end its bond-buying programme this week, eroding safe-haven demand, mainly pulled down precious metal prices here.
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The rally in silver may continue if the global economic recovery remains on course.
Those who want to invest should consider their risk appetite. Youngsters may go for it as they have a longer horizon to recover from a setback.
While gold returned 12 per cent annual gain in 10 years, Nifty didn't exceed 9 per cent.
Markets will watch the policy meeting on June 18 and 19 for clues to a rollback of stimulus measures. Fed officials are divided over their ultra-easy monetary policy and some warn it could stoke future inflation and financial instability.
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Not only is gold a hedge against currency depreciation, rising crude prices and uncertainty, it is up 7 per cent (in dollar terms) in the past 12 months, says Devangshu Datta.
The finance ministry (FinMin) has asked Infosys to work on ways to extract and access taxpayers' real-time data faster and accurately as it is crucial for taking decisions on policy changes. While reviewing progress of the income tax portal 2.0, which had faced glitches, the officials also told the Infosys team to increase the scope of pre-filled data in the ITR forms. Senior officials in the ministry held a review meeting last month with the Infosys team and officials of the Central Processing Centre (CPC).
It's likely that prices may have much further to fall as investors rush to liquidate.
Debt returns are always negative for investors in India, unless they are willing to take huge risk
Traders said emergence of buying at prevailing lower levels by jewellers and retailers mainly supported the upside in prices of precious metals.
While gold zoomed up by Rs 410 to Rs 30,810 per ten gram, silver jumped up by Rs 990 to Rs 51,200 per kg on increased offtake by stockists on the back of firm global trend.
In the Mumbai domestic market, gold stood at Rs 30,000/10g, down 0.9 per cent, while silver fell 2.5 per cent to Rs 50,275 a kg.
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