Shah had pleaded guilty in 2012 to securities fraud in a parallel civil insider trading case case.
Experts attributed the inflows to sudden rally in gold prices, mainly due to uneasy trade negotiations between the US and China and lower than expected global GDP growth.
Given the prevailing uncertainties, investors must maintain a 10-15 per cent allocation to gold in 2023.
If a retail investor wants exposure to a healthcare ETF, it should be a part of his satellite portfolio, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
CoinSwitch has 7.21 times more cash holdings in rupees, compared to that held by its users on its platform.
Domestic households are grossly underexposed to equities.
And there have been months when flows have exceeded $3 billion.
If your fund's expense ratio has risen dramatically after Sebi's recent changes, compare it with the category average before switching.
It is very important for founders and entrepreneurs to do thorough background research about the investors, before confirming any association, says Nikesh Patadia.
If the FM can levy education cess to meet the cost of education, then why not defense cess for defense cost, health cess, food cess, and so on. What are the tax collections meant for, asks Kanu H Doshi, partner of Kanu Doshi Associates, chartered accountants, Mumbai.
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.
Half a dozen stocks from the large-cap universe and over two dozen from the mid-cap universe have been replaced.
Equity MF schemes recorded worst inflows in three and a half years at Rs 1,311 crore for November. Investors across the board have taken money off the table as markets have scaled new highs. Industry experts said SIPs had stayed intact, which is a healthy sign for the MF industry.
Indian retail investors continue to sell gold ETFs.
'Returns can be very variable in equity markets.' 'That is why I tell small investors don't put 100 per cent of your money in equities, even if you are young.'
Alert: The two-year full-time Master of Finance and Control Programme for 2005-2007, from the Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi South Campus.
Gold exchange traded funds (ETFs) witnessed a net outflow of Rs 248 crore in February, making it the second consecutive month of withdrawals as investors preferred equities over other segments on record SIP flows. Net outflows from the gold ETFs were at Rs 452 crore in the month of January. Prior to that, the asset class had seen a net investment of Rs 313 crore, according to the data of Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi). Despite the outflows, the category witnessed an increase in net assets under management (AUM) of gold ETFs to Rs 18,727 crore at the end of February from Rs 17,839 crore in January-end.
Gaurav Garg, Head of Research, CapitalVia answers readers' stock market queries
There is widening gap between what the government's premier retirement fund makes on its investments and what it offers to employees. The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) makes the bulk of its investments in government-related securities. In other words, it lends to central and state governments and related entities. The interest it gets from these instruments is largely what it uses to pay interest to its subscribers.
The Monthly Income Plans (MIPs), which had invited a lot of investor ire last year when they skipped regular dividend payouts, are back in favour.
The worst may perhaps be over for these stocks, suggests Sanjay Kumar Singh.
Understand the magic that SIP brings to the table for you as an investor, says Satyen Kothari. You can start by investing as little as Rs 500 per month.
S Nagnath, President and CIO of DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund in an extensive interview talks about his fund's investment strategy, his team of fund managers and why some of his company's funds have a huge portfolio of 50 to 60 stocks.
Technology firm Wipro has a "high probability" of getting included in the benchmark Sensex, while two-wheeler major Bajaj Auto is the "most likely" deletion candidate, according to an analysis done by Brian Freitas, an analyst at independent research provider Smartkarma. The changes to the index will be announced mid-November, and will become effective from December 17. The December review uses the 6-month average market capitalisation and trading turnover data between May 1 and October 31 to determine changes.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your mutual fund queries.
A mistake here can prove costly.
Mutual funds are sitting on a huge cash pile of Rs 22,908 crore (Rs 229.08 billion). The absolute cash levels for all existing equity funds rose by 17.4 per cent to Rs 16,642 crore (Rs 166.42 billion) in February 2008 from Rs 14,176 crore (Rs 141.76 billion), in January 2008. Even the cash as a percentage of the total corpus increased to 8.7 per cent in January 2008, from 7.6 per cent in December 2007. The rising cash levels indicate the cautious outlook of the fund managers.
In a live chat on rediff.com on Wednesday, July 16, 4 pm, Feroze Azeez, will offer some valuable suggestions on investments.
Industry players say they have learnt from the bitter experience of 2008 and have far better checks and balances in place to avoid an encore.
Since 2016, Sebi has made many rules to prevent unauthorised trading by stockbrokers. Yet, one comes across dozens of cases of blatant overtrading in client accounts, every year, leading to massive losses to investors, observes Debashis Basu.
Steep volatility in the markets has made fund managers cautious, awaiting opportunities to deploy the cash.
R H Patil was on Thursday appointed chairman of UTI Asset Management Company, the country's largest mutual fund.\n\n
Second-tier NBFC stocks are trading at 24.4x their trailing earnings, which is nearly twice their 15-year average of 13.9x
This amount does not include losses suffered indirectly through investment in mutual funds (MFs) and insurance companies.
The government on Friday proposed hiking the securities transaction tax on Futures & Options (F&O) contracts, a move that will increase the trading costs in the derivatives segment as well as help in curbing excessive trades. In the Finance Bill 2023, passed by the Lok Sabha on Friday, the Securities Transaction Tax (STT) on options is proposed to be increased to 0.0625 per cent from 0.05 per cent and on futures contracts to 0.0125 from 0.01 per cent. Analysts opined that higher STT will shore up the government's revenues to some extent and also discourage excessive trading since a large number of retail traders are losing money in the segment.
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