Many enter this arena without a detailed understanding of how their algo works.' 'Diligently review information on the strategy, risk profile, potential losses, and expected gains before investing.'
A look at the various types of questions that have made an appearance in the entrance exams of management schools.
Cracking the CAT lies in your strategy to ensure a perfect blend of speed, accuracy and attempts. Here are some expert tips.
You can save yourself from a lot of stress, if you plan well at this stage when there's just over a month left for the exam.
High vegetable prices are expected to keep food inflation firm in the months to come.
Small and midcap schemes may impose restrictions on redemptions, cap employee withdrawals, and increase the exit load, while ensuring a proportionate liquidation of the portfolio during market crises to safeguard the interests of all investors. These measures have been outlined in the investor protection policies recently put out by mutual fund (MF) trustees. The policies for small and midcap schemes were prepared by MF trustees following directives from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) earlier this month.
Tips from ARKS Srinivas and Rahul Reddy of T.I.M.E (a CAT training institute).
'Value index funds are most appropriate for long-term investors who can withstand deeper drawdowns.'
'Like every Budget, this time, too, there is chatter around tinkering with the long-term capital gains tax.' 'Investors may not want to jump into the markets until there is clarity on this front.'
The government does not seem keen on issuing fresh gold bonds given the overall cost and rising gold prices.
Here are some strategies that can be used to do well in the Quant section.
In May, MFs were the net sellers in several PSUs, as they deployed Rs 47,600 crore in equities during the month.
'Those satisfied with returns and not expecting further rally could be booking profits and also stopping SIPs.'
IIM Ahemedabad student Gourav Bhattacharya shares some useful tips.
Ask rediffGURU Ulhas Joshi your mutual fund queries.
rediffGURU Dev Ashish answers your personal finance and mutual fund queries.
It is important to get the basics right across concepts, and then focus on the ones that you know are important.
CAT 2008 seems to be approaching faster than the speed of time. This coupled with the possible increase in the participation this year makes the going really tough. Hence, it's a must for us to identify and strengthen the strategies in the quantitative that can help us differentiate ourselves from others.
Investors pumped in a record Rs 40,608 crore into equity mutual funds in June, 17 per cent higher than in May 2024, industry body Amfi said on Tuesday. The flows into the systematic investment plans (SIPs) also reached a new high at Rs 21,262 crore for the month, which was higher than the previous high of Rs 20,904 crore recorded in May, it said. The net assets under management (AUM) for the entire MF industry on equity schemes stood at Rs 27.67 lakh crore, while the same from SIPs was Rs 12.43 lakh crore, the body said.
rediffGURU Ulhas Joshi answers your mutual fund queries.
rediffGURU Sunil Lala answers your personal finance-related queries.
Cases of front-running mostly happen when large asset managers and intermediaries are involved in bulk trades as their transaction size is generally big enough to impact the stock price.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
rediffGURU Jinal Mehta answers readers' financial planning and health insurance queries
Just ahead of its mega FPO opening to public investors, Vodafone Idea (VIL) has announced closure of its anchor book allocation, raising about Rs 5,400 crore from marquee global as well as domestic investors, according to a statutory filing by the telco. This could be the third-largest anchor book after One 97 Communications and Life Insurance Corporation (LIC). One 97 Communications and LIC had raised Rs 8,235 crore and Rs 5,627 crore in the anchor round, respectively.
Munira Lokhandwala, a faculty at IMS Learning Resources hosted a CAT 2008 chat with GA readers on July 23. For those of you who mised the chat, here's the unedited transcript.
rediffGURU Dev Ashish answers your personal finance and mutual fund queries.
At a time when exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were unloading Jio Financial Services from their portfolios, some active fund managers were placing large bets on the demerged financial services arm of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), a report by Nuvama Alternative & Quantitative Research shows. Motilal Oswal Mutual Fund and Quant Mutual Fund were the top MF buyers of the stock in August. They bought around 60 million shares each, together investing around Rs 2,800 crore.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
Do you have questions about CAT, XAT, CMAT or CET? rediffGURU Patrick Dsouza will answer them.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
rediffGURU Sunil Lala answers your MF-related queries.
The net inflows into active equity mutual fund (MF) schemes registered more than a twofold month-on-month rise in August, crossing Rs 20,000 crore, the highest in five months. This rise in net inflows was boosted by an 18 per cent growth in gross investments, driven by a record Rs 15,800 crore inflow through the systematic investment plan (SIP) route and Rs 5,000 crore collected by seven new fund offers (NFOs) in the active equity space, reveals data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi). Moreover, redemptions moderated in August, declining by 19 per cent to Rs 24,580 crore, after staying elevated in the previous three months owing to profit booking.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
rediffGURU Ramalingam Kalirajan answers your personal finance queries.
rediffGURU and financial planning expert Colonel Sanjeev Govila (retd) answers your personal finance-related questions.
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is offering special digital courses taught by their professors.
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