The current spurt in the stock market is on account of strong fundamentals and robust corporate earnings and retail investors can look for buying opportunities to accumulate quality stocks, experts said.
Banks in talks with temple trusts to push gold scheme
'In the short term you keep your return expectations very, very low; in the medium term be prepared to invest and in the long term growth will come and your returns from stocks will be high.'
Dwaipayan Bose simplifies the whys and hows of revisiting your financial goals
MFs continue to find it difficult to attract and retain long-term money from investors
The bias for the BSE benchmark index, technical charts suggest, is likely to remain bullish as long as the index holds above 75,600 levels for the rest of the year.
CBDT to reopen cases, conduct detailed inquiry of taxpayers who invested in such shares
The total number of demat accounts in the country stood at 171.1 million as of August 31.
rediffGURU and financial planning expert Colonel Sanjeev Govila (retd) answers your personal finance-related questions.
Questions on the efficacy of the government's drive towards filing of more returns by individuals and on whether raising tax exemption levels has led to reduced compliance in filing of returns by those who go out of the tax net, says A K Bhattacharya.
With the reality of coalition politics staring the BJP in its face, this was inevitable, points out Ramesh Menon.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Union Budget for 2023-24 in Parliament on February 1. The Budget is a statement of the government's estimated receipts and expenditures for a fiscal year (April 1 to March 31). It's divided into Revenue and Capital Budget. The Revenue Budget includes the government's revenue receipts and expenditures while the Capital Budget includes its capital receipts and payments.
There are different instruments which help in hedging the portfolio. Here's some help.
Investors, including large corporations, view them as a potential hedge against uncertainty, and mainstream investment banks too are jumping into the game.
The Covid winter seems to be finally ending for debt-oriented mutual fund (MF) schemes as interest rates peak, especially for those that invest in shorter-maturity papers. In the past two months, shorter-horizon debt schemes - ultra-short, low-duration, and money-market - have together raked in net inflows of Rs 48,000 crore, the highest for two months since April-May 2021. These schemes invest in shorter-maturity papers ranging from three months to a year.
India should convert the Trump threat to an India opportunity, re-embracing a more liberal trade regime as a way of reviving manufacturing output and exports.
Domestic institutional investors pumped Rs 2.3 trillion into equities during H1 CY24. Of this, mutual funds contributed 80%.
Longer-tenure FDs generally give higher returns. Nonetheless, going for a tenure higher than two to three years is not advisable.
Among Sensex shares, Bajaj Finserve, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance, Sun Pharma, Maruti Suzuki, ITC, and Nestle were the lead gainers. On the other hand, L&T Wipro, IndusInd Bank and TCS and Tata Motors were the lead losers.
'The government's projections for 2019-2020 will be disappointing big time.'
'If their allocation to certain segments have become high due to strong returns over the past three-four years, they should rebalance their portfolios and bring them in line with their long-term asset allocation.'
Retail investors should not invest for bonus or dividend because in order to make money over the long term.
The amendment would help check round-tripping of funds and boost the domestic consumption, Jaitley added
To say capital gains from stocks are effortless shows little understanding of the treacherous investing terrain, says Debashis Basu.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Precious metal coins may attract capital gains tax.
Investors are reluctant to take long-term positions this year after the spectacular gains in 2023. The delivery-based trades on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) have declined to below 36 per cent this year from an average of 38.1 per cent in 2023. Investors tend to seek delivery for stocks where they see a long-term investment opportunity or tactical positional trade.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Do you have financial planning queries? Ask rediffGURU Anil Rego.
Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.
From July 1, retail investors can offer stocks through exchanges for de-listing, buyback and open offers
Sooner the investors shift, the better it is as a majority of equity funds have single-digit returns since January 31.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
'It makes sense to have gold in one's portfolio keeping the political and economic risks of 2024 in mind.'
Except for liquidity, which could act in favour or against the market in the short term, most market participants are bullish.
From dubbing voices to putting faces with the help of AI, political campaigns are undergoing a Bollywood makeover. Among the favourites is a scene from the Anil Kapoor-starrer Nayak, posted by the BJP, where Kapoor asks about the Chunaavi Vaade (poll promise), with Arvind Kejriwal at the receiving end instead of Amrish Puri.
Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries
Such schemes try to exploit an anomaly in taxation, but aren't in violation of laws, experts say.
Pepsico's Indra Nooyi claims she remains bullish on India, while Sebi's Sinha makes the case for using pension money to pump capital into the market, reports Faisal Kidwai.
HFCs and banks expect a drop in demand for housing loans in the short-term.
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