Retail investors' equity portfolios have significantly underperformed benchmark indices over the past 16 to 18 months.
The need for NavIC was cemented after India was denied access to crucial navigation data from global providers during the 1999 Kargil War.
rediffGURU Dev Ashish answers your personal finance and mutual fund queries.
'They are positioned as defensive products and can potentially give marginally higher returns than liquid funds.'
Conservative investors seeking equity-like tax benefits with low risk may go for them.
'One should not invest more than 5 to 10 per cent of their overall portfolio exposure in global or international funds.'
At 6.23 am on 29.1.2025, the 50.9 metre tall and weighing 420.7 ton Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-F15 (GSLV-F15) is slated to blast off from the second launch pad carrying the 2,250 kg NVS-02 navigation satellite.
The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched its 100th mission on Wednesday, with a GSLV rocket carrying navigation satellite NVS-02.
The Indian Space Research Organisation will open 2025 scoring a century orbiting the country's navigation satellite 2,250 kg NVS-02 with its rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV)-F15.
'While investing in a silver ETF, one should be aware that it has historically exhibited higher price volatility than gold.'
For a large section of mutual fund investors the Net Asset Value (NAV) is the deciding criterion for investing.
Indian investors are paying hefty premiums to invest in China markets, with stocks there posting their biggest weekly gain in nearly 16 years. Savvy investors were seen making a dash to invest in the only two China-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) available in the domestic markets. On Friday, Mirae Asset Hang Seng Tech ETF closed at Rs 16.9 on the NSE, nearly
ISRO is part of an exclusive league which has forayed into the Moon and Sun.
'The satellite's condition is healthy.'
'The goal seems to be that we do not invest further in our system to make our system more accurate and more reliable or more global in reach,' an ISRO source tells Shivanand Kanavi.
Last week was unprecedented in the history of the Indian mutual fund industry-- the net asset values (NAVs) of nearly a dozen liquid-plus funds fell.
'When interest rates rise, the NAVs of these funds will fall.' However, they won't fall as much as longer-duration funds.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The best deal for an investor will come from a mutual fund that has higher NAV appreciation and Sharpe Ratio and lower Standard Deviation.
When Deutsche Asset Management Company (AMC) listed its debt scheme - DWS Fixed Term Fund-Series 43 (growth option) - on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on April 4 this year, little did they know that within 24 days the scheme's net asset value (NAV) would double to Rs 20.
Most investors should have a 5% to 10% allocation to gold for diversification. They should stagger their investments to mitigate timing risk.
rediffGURU Samkit Maniar answers readers' personal income tax queries.
Dwaipayan Bose examines the seven important factors that investors about exchange traded funds must know before they start investing/trading in them.
The Mumbai-based real estate developer Oberoi Realty has been one of the top-performing companies in its segment and most brokerage remains bullish on the stock. The company's stock price is 52 per cent in the last 12 months beating the broader market by a huge margin. The benchmark BSE Sensex is up just 6.5 per cent during the period.
Sources said SBI Funds Management will distribute the proceeds to unitholders following liquidation of some securities held under the scheme.
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has said its six shut schemes have received Rs 15,272 crore from maturities, coupons and pre-payments since closing down in April 2020. The fund house had shut six debt mutual fund schemes on April 23 last year, citing redemption pressures and lack of liquidity in the bond market.
The unclaimed funds within the life insurance sector are higher from policies sold by agents as against other channels like bancassurance or a digital platform, said analysts and officials from insurance companies. Unclaimed life insurance funds refer to the proceeds of insurance policies including death or survival benefits not claimed by the beneficiary or the policyholder. Bancassurance means selling an insurance product through banks.
'If you invest in sovereign gold bond, you are going to get the price rise of gold over an eight year period.' 'You're also going to get that two-and-a-half percent which the Government of India is willing to give you, treating the money that you've invested in the sovereign gold bond as a kind of a FD or a deposit.' 'That kind of return you can never get anywhere else.'
Depending on the kind of risk you want to take, here are five funds that will give you a good return on your investment.
Encouraging results for the fourth quarter of the 2022-23 financial year (Q4FY23) have led to a big surge in the share price of DLF. The realty major closed FY23 with Rs 15,000 crore (up 107 per cent year-on-year or YoY) of pre-sales, leading to cash generation of Rs 2,500 crore (up 14 per cent YoY) and reduced net debt by Rs 1,960 crore YoY. The launch of The Arbour project in Q4FY23 alone drove sales of Rs 8,000 crore in the quarter.
With stock markets soaring, most investors are faced with the question: what should we do now? Here's a strategy to help them tide over the current investment scenario.
While index funds have done very well for themselves in the US, Indian investors haven't really taken to them like a fish to water. There are several reasons for the lukewarm response to index funds
If you invested simply to make a quick buck, this would be a good time to book profits.
The stocks of Mumbai-based real estate companies have been hitting lifetime highs on expectations that launches, steady demand, and price increases in the largest real estate market in the country would boost their financials. Macrotech Developers (Lodha) and Oberoi Realty hit their all-time highs last week, while Godrej Properties came close to its 52-week high last month before witnessing a sharp correction.
The good times continued for fund investors as equity markets closed in positive terrain for the third week in a row.
The markets after seeing some volatility in the past few weeks, took a definite direction this weekÂ…downwards!
January 2005 was clearly a testing month for most investors; however, such times can often demarcate serious long-term investors from those who are looking to make a quick buck.
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