Diversified equity funds put in a smart performance despite a downward trend in equity markets over the week.
Remember you can invest in a new fund offer tomorrow, but your tax-planning clock has already started ticking.
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This bloodbath, however, provides investors with yet another opportunity to buy quality stocks at cheap valuations. And many experts buy this argument.
The overall market breadth was negative as 1,989 stocks declined against 882 advancing ones, on the BSE.
Analysts said that there is some amount of decoupling between India and the rest of world backed by strong growth momentum.
Markets remained muted throughout the day on back of selling pressure in IT and PSU stocks.
If you invested simply to make a quick buck, this would be a good time to book profits.
The good times continued for fund investors as equity markets closed in positive terrain for the third week in a row.
Volatility in April continued from where it signed off in March. The specter of rising interest rates and climbing oil prices dealt a double whammy to the stock markets.
The markets after seeing some volatility in the past few weeks, took a definite direction this weekÂ…downwards!
Investors can now put up to Rs 100,000 in tax-saving funds.
If markets correct further, risk-taking investors should use this opportunity to increase their allocations to equity/balanced funds. Investors who have taken the SIP route, will stand to benefit from falling markets in any case.
Is this year's budget going to encourage savings and investments or is it going to act as a dampener?
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.
Investors with a low to moderate risk profile can consider SIPs in balanced funds. \n\n
Our advice: exercise caution and don't get carried away by the exuberance in the markets. \n\n\n\n
While picking a quality mutual fund is never easy, rising markets often make the task seem a lot easier. Exercise a greater degree of caution, because tough times can and do separate the men from the boys.
Dividends from equity funds would continue to be tax-free in the hands of investors those from debt funds would be taxed at 12.5% plus 2% surcharge.
An investor friendly budget would mean further incentives and opportunities for investors to get invested.
Yet again an industry expert stresses on the need to stay invested over the long-term and not look for quick gains.
It may not be a smooth sail at the markets in the immediate future but then equity investing is about taking bets over the long term.
A note for retail investors: If you are a long-term guy, you should not panic. Long-term investors never panic.
Elections and exit polls continued to set the tone for markets, for a better part of the week ended May 8.
Investors can now invest in mutual fund schemes which invest globally thereby giving investors access to international assets.
After lying low for a while markets came back strongly and breached the 6,000 points mark. The BSE Sensex posted a growth of 3.91 per cent to close at 6,012 points while the S&P CNX Nifty rose by 4.36 per cent to end at 1,914
MIPs are best suited for investors who are risk-averse and would like to have a tiny component of equity in their holdings purely to boost their returns.
Industry experts stress on the virtues of long term investing in equity markets and professional assistance.
It was yet another dull week at the debt markets and the sentiment continued to be negative.
The much-anticipated correction in the market seems to have finally set in.
Old Economy stocks were trading steady on the arrival of the monsoon, tech stocks rose following gains in the US markets Tuesday.
Sustained buying by foreign institutional investors and selective buying by local funds pushed a host of stocks to their 52-week highs.
Sustained selling pressure in tech as well as select Old Economy stocks dragged down the market further on Thursday, after a steady opening.
Tech stocks, led by Infosys Technologies, dragged down the market on Monday amid concerns about the pressure on billing rates and a rising rupee. \n\n\n\n
The market recovered on Monday due to bargain hunting in tech stocks. \n\n\n\n
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