The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Monday relaxed the norms for valuing perpetual bonds. The norms, which had sought to value banks' deemed residual maturity of Basel III additional tier 1 (AT1) bonds as 100-year debt from April 1, were strongly opposed by the finance ministry. In a statement released on Monday, the regulator said the maturity would be 10 years until March 31, 2022, and would be increased to 20 and 30 years over the subsequent six-month period.
Polarisation and the increase in index weight of a few a stocks have weighed on performance. The worst performers include Nippon India Large Cap and HDFC Top 100 (2.6 per cent).
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Infosys, SBI and L&T among fund managers' preferred bets.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your mutual fund queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Over 700,000 new investor accounts have been opened so far in FY15.
Wondering if you did the right thing with your mutual fund investments?
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
More asset sales may be only way out, though most of the group companies' ratings have been downgraded and their combined market value is now a fraction of their combined debt.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
If one compares returns, the two public-sector ETFs have done better over the past year, but the ELSS category has done better over the trailing three and five years.
Nikunj Saraf, Vice President Choice Wealth, answers your queries.
Monthly SIP inflow is Rs 6,000 crore, with a little over 1.75 million accounts
INS Vishakapatnam's ground attack and anti-ship capabilities are achieved through a bank of BrahMos cruise missiles that can be fired at targets up to 295 km away.
In an online chat with readers on August 10, Vidya Bala, Vidya Bala, head of mutual fund research at FundsIndia, answered their queries. For hose who missed the chat, here is the transcript.
The rights issue price has been set at Rs 1,257 a share, a discount of nearly 14 per cent to the last closing price of Rs 1,459. The company had set May 14 as the record date for the rights issue, which meant shareholders as on that day would be eligible to apply. Shareholders will be able to apply for one share for every 15 shares held.
The move to allow payments through digital wallets could give a fillip to distribution and reach for these investment vehicles, say experts.
'Is it advisable to have more number of scrips in small quantities or a few scrips in big quantities?'
Soon after the finance ministry cleared the haze on tax treatment of equity linked savings scheme, fund managers are lining up such policies to tap investors eager to participate in the stock market boom and simultaneously save tax. \n
Among the stocks that have seen the largest cut by MFs, the DVR shares (shares with differential voting rights) of Tata Motors have seen a cut of 243 basis points (bps) in MFs' stake.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Since you are betting only on a few stocks, the risks are high.
Despite uncertain times and market volatility ahead, investors should continue with their disciplined investing via SIPs.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
In a chat on rediff.com, Feroze Azeez offered valuable tips.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Demonetisation could see anywhere between Rs 8 and 12 lakh crore coming into the banking system in the next few weeks.
For a while, it seemed the markets were going on a free fall.
"The 21,000 level is meaningless. In the past five years, earnings have grown 40 per cent. One should look at the P/E. We are very positive on the market despite elections being around the corner," says Milind Barve MD, HDFC AMC.
Asset managers are betting big on ETFs these days.
The recent weakness in stock markets has provided an opportunity to buy quality stocks relatively cheaper
Telecom companies have put in bids worth Rs 58,332 crore (Rs 583.32 billion) in spectrum auction at the end of 49 rounds on the 7th day of bidding on Monday.
The auction started off with the 36th round this morning. At the end of 35 rounds on Friday, bids worth around Rs 54,600 crore had been received by the government.
'It is easy to dramatise the events of today, but it is far more important to focus on the fact that we have a radically overvalued financial sector. It is a house of cards.'
'MFs have a combined exposure of Rs 3.2 lakh crore to NBFCs, out of which Rs 1.1 lakh crore matures by September 2019.'
To make money, invest in both good and bad times; otherwise the entire exercise is futile, experts tell Joydeep Ghosh & Sanjay Singh
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