rediffGURU Ulhas Joshi answers your mutual fund queries.
Privately, many bankers admit their immediate goal is not growth but slowing the erosion of Casa deposits, reveals Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Investment guru and mutual fund expert Ashok Kumar, answers all your MF related queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Do you have financial planning queries? Ask rediffGURU Kirtan A Shah.
rediffGURU Ulhas Joshi answers your mutual fund queries.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
This comes on the back of impressive performance in infrastructure stocks in 2006 and in the first seven months of this calendar.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Sebi aims to stay proactive as HFT and quant firms like Citadel Securities, Optiver, Millennium, and IMC Trading are expanding rapidly in India, which is home to the world's largest derivatives market by contracts traded.
rediffGURU Sunil Lala answers your personal finance-related queries.
ICICI Bank was looking at valuing ICICI Holdings at $10 billion, sources said. Vishaka Muley, chief financial officer of the group, refused to comment on the development.
Ask rediffGURU and PF expert Milind Vadjikar your insurance, stocks, mutual fund and personal finance-related questions.
To get back equity-wary investors, fund houses and their portfolio management services (PMS) have started schemes that will regularly book profits. In these funds, mutual funds and PMS will realise appreciation at specific target returns and transfer profits either to a safer investment avenue or give the money back to the customer.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Do not, however, enter expecting quick returns.
'Funds based on this theme offer socially conscious investors an option to invest in a portfolio that is aligned to their beliefs.'
Prudential ICICI Asset Management Company the investment manager to India's largest private sector mutual fund launched an innovative product, the Pru ICICI Advisor Series.
If you already hold significant amounts of equity in your portfolio, avoid MAAFs with over 60 per cent equity. But if you lack equity exposure, an aggressive MAAF may be appropriate.
An allocation to ESG theme funds can bring down the overall risk of an equity portfolio. Investors with long-term financial goals, such as retirement, should not ignore sustainable investing.
'Your decisions should not be driven by your view on the market, but by your objectives, risk appetite, and time horizon.'
The improving outlook for the power sector has caught the interest of dividend yield funds. In the first four months of the current financial year (2023-24, or FY24), five of the six largest dividend yield funds have shown a notable increase in their exposure to stocks within the power sector. Some have even introduced new stocks to their portfolios.
'A long-term investor with a 4 to 5 year horizon could invest in this theme via SIPs.'
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Markets regulator Sebi has ordered the attachment of bank and demat accounts as well as mutual fund holdings of Videocon Group founder Venugopal Dhoot to recover dues totalling Rs 5.16 lakh. The latest decision has been taken after Dhoot failed to pay the fine imposed on him in March by Sebi for not making disclosures about his interest in Supreme Energy as well as for not disclosing that Quality Techno Advisors Pvt Ltd (QTAPL) and Credential Finance Ltd (CFL) were related parties with respect to certain transactions. In an attachment notice on Monday, Sebi said the pending dues of Rs 5.16 lakh include the initial fine of Rs 5 lakh, interest of Rs 15,000 and a recovery cost of Rs 1,000.
Invest only if you wish to go overweight on the sector.
Multi-cap funds are best suited to exploit the present market scenario as they are free to invest across all market capitalisations and sectors, says Naveen Kukreja, CEO and co-founder, Paisabazaar.com.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
"There is a large workforce working as agents for life insurance companies and other banking and financial products who require specialised training as financial advisers," ICICI Prudential AMC, head -- retail sales and distribution, Vikram Kaushal said. Of the estimated 68,000 financial advisers available in the country, almost 38,000 are working for ICICI Prudential, he said.
Invest with a 5 to 7 year horizon so that you are able to ride out price volatility and benefit from the long-term trends of demand and macroeconomic shifts.
Following the sharp run in markets, valuations across the board have become elevated. The National Stock Exchange Nifty50 Index now trades at a 12-month trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 24.3 times, 18 per cent higher than this year's low of 20.5 times. The valuation expansion in the broader markets has been sharper.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Investor folios exceed 2 million, assets more than double since FY14.
Sudhanshu Singh, director IBBM, MM Securities, answers your mutual fund queries.
'Investors should allocate about 5% to 10% to such funds.'
Investors can sell their entire equity and move to debt when stocks get expensive
