In the 52 newly listed companies since 2014, fund managers have a total investment of a mere 2.5 per cent of their assets under management.
The Reserve Bank on Thursday said it has put in place contingency plans to infuse liquidity into the system to deal with any possible volatility in markets on Friday in view of the election results.
During the current financial year, 25 companies have raised Rs 28,220 crore through IPOs
LIC is one of the largest Indian shareholders in the country's largest car maker, with a 6.93% stake.
SBI, which has been operating in the UK for 95 years, said it is prepared to set aside 100 million pounds in ring-fenced capital and restructure its operations if that is necessary to keep operating on the high streets.
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Sharma would be 60 in November 2018, and would have completed 10 years as Axis Bank's CEO the following year in June.
"A significant decline in the growth number for this quarter is highly likely, but for the fiscal year as a whole the decline may still be relatively moderate," Fitch Asia-Pacific Sovereigns Group Director Thomas Rookmaaker said.
General, life insurers with 8 & 10 yrs in biz, respectively, may have to list
The move will have cascading effects for lot of related sectors
Recently, United Bank of India declared Kingfisher Airlines as well as some three of its directors as wilful defaulters.
'Without appropriate supervisory constraints in place, banks are in a position to delay the recognition of losses and engage in ever-greening or zombie lending, which is essentially the rolling over of debts of unviable borrowers that would have otherwise defaulted,' points out RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya.
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In his address at a conference of state secretaries, Rajan stressed the need to strengthen state-level coordination committees by ensuring participation, conducting meetings more frequently and sharing quality information among all stakeholders, including state government agencies.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to impose stricter limits on how much a bank can lend to a single corporate group, a move aimed at curbing risk in the banking sector at a time when bad loans are on the rise.
Two straight years of less than 5 percent economic expansion have led to a surge in bad loans for Indian lenders.
While debt funds have emerged as the flavour of the season, not all investors understand debt funds. So the best they can do is put trust in the fund manager and the fund house.
There is a dearth of talent in the Indian banking industry. A testimony to this is the two new CEOs in the private sector -- Sandeep Bakhshi in ICICI Bank Ltd and Amitabh Chaudhry in AXIS Bank Ltd -- have come from the insurance sector, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
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Given the macro setting, the outlook remains positive for each of the four key parameters - inflation, current account deficit, fiscal deficit and currency stability, says Rahul Bhushkute.
ICICI Bank puts up a good show in Q4.
To be fair, one year is too short a period to judge the schemes' performance.
Voices from the Treasury are clamouring for lowering rates as this would boost demand.
Draft guidelines for Small Banks and Payments Banks were issued by the RBI in July and comments were invited till August 28.
In 5 years, the AMC has clocked a growth rate of 40% with its AUM up nearly 4 times.
A day after applying for a bank licence, Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla on Wednesday said the new bank licence norms announced by the Reserve Bank are not discriminatory towards large corporate houses.
Lenders can now review a borrower account within 30 days of default. Earlier, the banks had to start resolution within one day of default.
Money flowing into the equity schemes of mutual funds is back at a level last seen before the 2008 financial crisis, when the stock market tanked 60 per cent.
Gains in financial shares capped further downslide.
HDFC Life has a balance between traditional policies and Ulips
'A fund investor could pick, say, three of the top active funds in any given category.'
Equity fund managers say large-caps offer higher relative safety, especially in such times.
The SBI auction will be the biggest nationwide online sale.
The National Stock Exchange's proposed IPO to raise Rs 10,000 crore this year is expected to see the largest ever PE exit, of around Rs 5,000 crore.
Vishal Sikka who was made vice-chairman till his successor was appointed, also quit the board with immediate effect.
You may invest even at current market levels provided you have an investment horizon of five years or more.
Invest 5 to 10 per cent in a banking sector fund. Ensure that mutual fund's portfolio includes all three players -- private sector banks, public sector banks and NBFCs.
Unfavourable secondary market conditions aren't a big concern for IPOs by good quality companies.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
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