Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Rakesh Kaul, CDO, Edelweiss General Insurance, answers your health insurance queries.
Invest 5 to 10 per cent in a banking sector fund. Ensure that mutual fund's portfolio includes all three players -- private sector banks, public sector banks and NBFCs.
Move could be aimed at integrating operations with Indian subsidiary.
Event-based volatility could rise in the near future, increasing arbitrage opportunities.
This critical illness policy is a good start, but more could have been done
They are suitable for a 3-5 year horizon. Choose equity funds for longer than 5 years
'The IPO window has been more or less open since the new government in 2014.'
'Experts are not ruling out further pain as global factors cannot insulate India from the aftermath.'
Stocks of companies having operations and exports to Europe were the top losers.
One can short-sell an ETF or buy on margin or even purchase one unit, which is not possible with index-funds/conventional MFs.
National Demorcatic Alliance ministry's list of assets is fairly wide -- from land and property to vehicles and, for quite a few, guns. Nivedita Mookerji reports
Fund houses' tie-ups with the postal department for marketing their schemes through post offices are yet to take off in a bigger way.
Mid-cap funds have given three-digit returns -- more than those from benchmark and large-cap funds. But, due to the higher risk they entail, you need to tread with care.
Even optimists suggest a tempering of expectations and there may still be room for a fall.
Paper gold saves your investments from volatility, and you from hassles that come with the physical form. The chance of good returns gives that extra shine.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Reliance Mutual Fund has toppled UTI MF to become the country's largest fund house in January with assets under management of more than Rs 39,000 crore (Rs 390 billion).
S Naren, CIO of ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, in an interview with Chandan Kishore Kant, says cyclicals will offer good value.
The results certainly show it is, but infrastructure and people shortages don't make for an uncontrolled bull run
Focus on large-caps and ensure that the portfolio is balanced.
If inflation is robust then interest rates will have to be ra
SBI plunged over 3% after posting a 34.57% fall in net profit to Rs 2,538 crore for the quarter ended September 2016 on rise in provisions for non-performing loans.
Cairn, which is sitting on a cash pile of about $3 billion, in a statement said its board has approved buying 17.09 crore shares or 8.9 per cent of the total shareholding, from open market at no more than Rs 335 apiece.
Wiping off nearly Rs 4 lakh crore of investors' wealth during the day, benchmark Sensex crashed on Friday.
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