'Everyone is still trying to understand the quantum of impact demonetisation will have on the economy.'
'Money that came into mutual funds near the previous peaks -- the second half of 2017 and 2018 -- has in most cases experienced unflattering returns.' 'A large proportion of redemptions could be such inflows exiting when the market recovered sharply from July 2020 onwards.'
The power of compounding is a mindboggling thing.
Reema Shah pleaded guilty to insider trading and cooperated with the US government for accepting insider info from a Yahoo! executive
Financial assets make a comeback as returns on physical assets falter.
US retail giant Walmart has said it is "open to an IPO" for its Indian e-commerce arm Flipkart but there is "no specific timeline" for the share sale. Both Flipkart and payment app PhonePe continue to do well, Walmart International president and CEO Judith McKenna said while speaking at the DB Access Global Consumer Conference on June 7. "We always made it clear from the day we made the acquisition or the investment, that we would be open to an IPO," said McKenna. However, she noted that there is no specific timeline for the IPO.
Retail investors have matured and have moved away from investing in only in-vogue products, says the managing director and chief executive officer of ICICI Prudential AMC.
The governor made it clear that the RBI is aware of what's happening and acts accordingly, but doesn't make a noise about that, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Should you continue investing in stocks and mutual fund SIPs even as Indian stock markets keep sliding every other day and there is gloom all around?
The Reserve Bank of India has set up an expert working group for examining issues related to the launch of currency futures in the country.
'Thankfully, most investors in India have now seen through this false narrative and are once again deploying their hard-earned money.
Even if you get a bit late in buying things you need, it is always better to avoid debt traps, advises Vishwajeet parashar
In the first big ticket measure towards full capital account convertibility, the government announced that mutual funds could invest abroad up to $1 billion in listed companies.
'We have great demographics, and are the fastest growing large economy. And we save.' 'All of which is great for financial services,' Aditya Birla Capital CEO Ajay Srinivasan tells Niraj Bhatt.
The steady increase in Indian interest rates is making bank deposits a popular investment option among the Gulf-based Non-Resident Indians.\n\n
India's capital market regulator on outlined a series of steps, including allowing short selling of equities by institutional investors, bringing mutual fund intermediaries under its purview.
Indian commodity market can treble in size to an annual turnover of Rs 100 trillion by 2010, if the government allows investment by FIIs, banks and mutual funds as well as new products like options trading, top market officials believe.
COVID-19 forced people to work from home turned into the fuel for new demat accounts, observes Debashis Basu.
The likelihood is that India will maintain a moderately upbeat economic tempo -- well short of tearaway growth, explains T N Ninan.
Regular investment is the key to reaching a financial goal, irrespective of the waves in the equity market
Because it costs a shit-ton of money. Full disclosure: I won't accept a wedding ring that costs Rs 1L or less. But Rs 1L and more seems like a LOT of money. Enough for me to think about better ways to spend it. Stocks? Mutual Funds? SIPs? *GASP* NFTs and Crypto?
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
In the last few years, unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) have quietly become one of the largest players in the Indian stock market. With a total investment estimated at Rs 1.5 lakh crore to Rs 2 lakh crore, they are almost close to the investment made by equity mutual funds.
According to the report, financial assets of the Indian households are predominantly in the form of bank deposits, followed by life insurance - a pattern that got disrupted after note ban
In volatile markets, it is best to have a diversified portfolio in both mutual funds and stocks.
'Even where we are now today, the growth rates are very good, but we need to get to 8-9 per cent growth in the years to come.'
To signify its revamped and enlarged role in the field of education in the banking and financial sectors, the 75-year old Indian Institute of Bankers would be known as Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, a senior official said on Friday.
Penalties for non-disclosure or inaccurate disclosure of these details can be severe.
Sundararaman Ramamurthy has been an interesting choice for the publicly-listed BSE, which has seen its chief move to bigger rival -- the National Stock Exchange (NSE) -- in July. Having spent nearly two decades at the country's largest bourse, Ramamurthy is among the early architects of NSE and understands all the cogs of the exchange wheel like only a few others in the country. Just like NSE's core team, which includes its founder RH Patil, the 59-year-old Ramamurthy has worked at the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) before moving to NSE in 1995.
You cannot sow today and reap tomorrow.
New projects fell 6.3 per cent in the December quarter compared with the September quarter. The value of new projects in the just-concluded quarter was Rs 2.1 trillion, according to the data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), which was lower than the Rs 2.2 trillion seen in the September quarter. It is, however, higher than Rs 1.5 trillion recorded for the quarter ended December 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. This data ties in with the November data for core sector growth, an index of eight core industries, which grew at its slowest pace since early 2021.
However, it is noteworthy that foreign investors pumped in money on the day of election results as the mandate became clear
'Stick to FDs of shorter tenures, preferably one-two years.'
Children have to get into the role of advisors to help parents steer their retirement funds in the right direction
Transfer funds systematically to average costs in a choppy market.
Having exposure to international funds and gold is a must for those who have foreign currency-denominated goals.
Has Vijay Shekhar Sharma given up on the bank? For now, he seems to be on a save-OCL mission. The bank will face its logical end, observes Tamal Bandopadhyay.
