Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Experts say investors should stay patient and stay invested in mutual funds.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Wondering if mutual fund investments can help you make you enough money for your retirement and child's marriage? Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Three stockmarket experts give their best picks for the New Year.
Treat silver as part of the procyclical or growth assets in your portfolio, advises Sanjay Kumar Singh.
At the start of 2016, HDFC Bank, Infosys, ICICI Bank, L&T and Axis Bank were the top five picks of fund managers
MFs have garnered record assets in the past one year, led by increased investor participation through SIPs and robust returns in mid-cap schemes.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
To be fair, one year is too short a period to judge the schemes' performance.
Axis Bank and ICICI Bank consumed 37-59 per cent of their operating profit for COVID-19 provisioning, while the figure is 24 per cent in case of Kotak Mahindra Bank and 10-12 per cent for IndusInd Bank and HDFC Bank.
Major shareholder Kinnevik, a Swedish investment firm, devalued Quikr by 45%, referring to the exaggerated revenue resulting from fraudulent transactions that rocked the company. Quikr is now valued at about $577 million.
Aim is to boost sales volumes and increase penetration.
'Start-ups that generate a majority of their income in India are likely to opt for an Indian listing.'
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The country's 44 fund houses together had an average AUM of Rs 9.85 lakh crore during April-June quarter of 2014-15, up from Rs 9.05 lakh crore (Rs 9.05 trillion) in the preceding three months, according to the latest data available with Association of Mutual Funds in India.
While the overall loan disbursements stood strong at 15 per cent YoY in Q2, pockets such as vehicle finance, loans to NBFCs, and business banking showed some weakness. A continued fall in these numbers may make it tough for AU SFB to defend its valuations under the current circumstances.
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Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
ICICI Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising over 3 per cent, followed by ITC, SBI, HCL Tech, Axis Bank, Bajaj Finserv and Tech Mahindra. NSE Nifty advanced 32 points to 15,856.05.
Gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have further lost favour among Indian investors.
Salil Dhawan reveals the MFs that have not only performed well in the past but have a promising outlook for the future too.
Unlike in the past, when old private banks compromised upon underwriting standards to take on the bulk, they've now realised that scaling up at the cost of quality isn't worth the while. These banks have also readjusted growth targets when required, and rebalanced books to preserve capital and asset quality.
The issue also underscores the growing scrutiny by investors and voting advisory firms of the performance of board members.
Twenty years after India's insurance sector was opened up, unshackling the control of state-owned companies, as many as 50 private players have set up shop. Along with their foreign partners, private players have brought about a sea change in the product offering, distribution and underwriting processes, and services levels. Yet, India's insurance penetration needle has not moved much.
Market watchers believe that the change in guidelines fly in the face of some of the recent initiatives taken by the government, such as easing norms for foreign portfolio investors.
Retail investors have gained significant heft in the past year amid a sustained uptick in Indian equities. The share of retail investors in companies listed on the NSE reached an all-time high of 7.32 per cent in the quarter ended December 31, 2021, up from 7.13 per cent in the previous quarter and 6.9 per cent a year ago, the data from PRIME Infobase shows. This was despite the Nifty's 1.5 per cent decline during the quarter.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
And if there are so many opportunities, why haven't they invested in them, asks Debashis Basu.
Investor folios exceed 2 million, assets more than double since FY14.
IndiGo had debt of Rs 3,912 crore at end of the June quarter.
New retirement schemes from MFs offer Section 80C benefit but locks in your money for five years
The category average return of mid-and-small-cap funds is 95 per cent.
Select companies in infra, capital goods, private banks, auto, oil & gas, and mining could be considered by investors.
'But we are much better than what we all had expected and planned, and what all the prophets of doom had predicted.'
Sharma would be 60 in November 2018, and would have completed 10 years as Axis Bank's CEO the following year in June.
Vijaya Bank assured employees that the service conditions 'will remain unaffected and staff benefits retained'
S&P Global Ratings on Monday expressed scepticism over allowing corporate ownership in banks given India's weak corporate governance amid large corporate defaults over the past few years. It also said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will face challenges in supervising non-financial sector entities at a time when the health of financial sector is weak. Last week, a RBI panel had proposed that large corporate may be permitted to promote banks, as well as raising the cap on promoters' stake in private sector banks to 26 per cent, from15 per cent at present.
Top losers in the Sensex pack include Bharti Airtel, Infosys, Asian Paints, RIL, Coal India, HDFC Bank, HDFC, TCS, ONGC and M&M, falling up to 3.09 per cent.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
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