The main concern among industry and market experts is that the governance in these companies needs to be strengthened and the focus on social insurance has to come down.
ICICI MF recently filed for an ETF that will track the Nifty Alpha Low-Volatility 30 Index. It is part of the suite of smart-beta indices with the NSE, with the portfolio designed using a combination of two factors.
Exposure to debt funds and gold is essential even if current returns from these asset classes are low, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Sanjay Mookim, India equity strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, tells Puneet Wadhwa that this is not a time for investors to dabble in relatively small and illiquid stocks.
Valued at $71.2 billion, the bank's market capitalisation is more than that of global banks like Barclays, JP Morgan Chase and Credit Suisse.
Equity strategists are basing their expectation on strong corporate earnings recovery, supportive global economic growth, and gradual improvement in business sentiment.
Available data obscures the true stress in bank books, and the pandemic will result in balance sheet impairments and capital shortfalls at lenders, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Monday. Balance sheet impairment and capital shortfalls will be more evident once the regulatory reliefs are rolled back, Das said in the bi-annual Financial Stability Report, asking lenders to augment capital.
Live commerce, quick commerce, group buying, WhatsApp commerce, dukaantech have made their mark.
Investors in Sensex companies turned richer in 2009, raking in returns of over 76 per cent on their investments, as the collective market valuation of the 30-blue chip companies nearly doubled to Rs 26.49 lakh crore last year, the Economic Survey said on Thursday.
Bank of Baroda has relatively better position on impaired assets.
New listing on the BSE will create more jobs, say experts.
Yes Bank was the top gainer in the Sensex pack rising 5.80 per cent, followed by Tata Motors, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Bank and Tata Steel.
Heavyweights such as Coal India, L&T and SBI ran up losses, taking cues from overseas markets.
Investors prefer exits with lower valuation to staying invested for a longer term
Theoretically, there is an inverse relationship, but other factors need to fall in place for it to work well this time
Contrarian stocks can help investors generate much higher returns than buying shares of companies that have shown consistent high growth for years.
Companies in the small-cap universe are having a dream run - the Nifty Smallcap 100 index has shot up more than 25 per cent on a year-to-date basis, even as the benchmark Nifty is up 7 per cent. This is the best start for the index since 2017 when the Nifty Smallcap 100 index surged 32.3 per cent between January 1 and May 10. However, in terms of outperformance to the Nifty, this year's performance is the best in more than a decade. A combination of sectoral tailwinds and lack of institutional selling pressure has helped small companies escape from the correction triggered by the second wave of Covid-19.
The broadcast made an estimated Rs20 billion in ad sales revenues from the IPL this year
There is immense pressure on Biyani to go ahead with the RIL offer after FRL defaulted on its interest payments of Rs 100 crore on July 22.
The market benchmark appears set to end 2013 on a positive note with a modest gain of over 7 per cent, but such gains are not to be seen in a majority of stocks available in the market, which predominantly include those of mid-size and smaller companies, shows an analysis of various indices.
Even after the recent developments at Infosys, both companies are expected to deliver similar revenue growth in FY17
Mindtree, eclerx and Hexaware are trading at similar valuations to that of the larger peers.
Investors not stop their SIPs or STPs due to election-related uncertainty.
'Trust a fund manager, buy some small-cap funds and stay invested.'
The broader NSE Nifty, on the other hand, ended 2.70 points, or 0.02 per cent, lower at 11,555.90 in its third straight day of losses.
Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, run by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, on Tuesday raised Rs 5,512.50 crore from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), taking the total fundraise to Rs 37,710 crore in less than four weeks.
Investors must be prepared to believe that things will get better eventually, no matter how bad the current situation may look. If you don't possess this optimism, you will not possess the courage to invest and if you don't invest, you don't give yourself any chance to get wealthy, says Devangshu Datta.
'Small investors usually rely on tips or recommendations from a friend for stock picking.' 'These platforms offer them unbiased research for making their investment decisions.'
By diversifying into developed market equities, Indian investors can mitigate the impact of cyclicality in returns as well as reduce currency risk, experts tell Sanjay Kumar Singh.
It won't be an easy ride for the markets, reckon experts, considering the multiple state elections in 2018 and general elections next year.
Analysts attribute this outperformance to the government's proactive economic reform measures
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Most positives seem to be factored into current valuations.
The finance minister did very well for equity market investors but not so with families, reveals Mahesh Vyas.
Property sales have been sluggish and the sector has been facing headwinds. So, firms are in wait-and-watch mode.
Materials and utilities were the worst-performing sectors in March.
An analysis of how DSP BlackRock Micro Cap fund has performed in the last five years
The benchmark indices fell as Sebi cracked down on 331 suspected shell companies listed on exchanges.
There are good reasons to believe that India is at the start of a long period of growth for equities.
From its all-time peak of 38,989.65 scaled on August 29 this year, the Sensex has fallen by 2,921.32 points, or 7.5 per cent, to 36,068.33.
