Reading Time: 7 minutes The world of finance is not untouched by trends. There are new products and services coming up all the time and then there are those which make a comeback. A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) forms part of the latter category. It has existed for long, but has come back to prominence only in the […]
Polycab India Ltd- Q2FY21 Analysis
Reading Time: < 1 minute While the first quarter(Q1FY21) was a washout with a 50% decline in sales on account of 2 months of lockdown. I was amazed by the recovery amidst the ongoing pandemic and intermittent lockdowns across the country in Q2FY21. And that is true for many other publicly listed companies I track. While the B2B segment of […]
Home Loan Rates Falling. Property Prices Down. Should you buy a House now?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Home loan rates are low. In fact, very low when compared with the historical trends. Many home loans are quoting at sub-7% now! I can’t remember when last time the rates were so low in recent past. But that’s not all. Property prices have cooled off a bit too, at least in some cities and […]
Can Gold ETFs, Funds & SGBs be part of long term portfolio?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Since the start of the year, Gold has lived up to its expectation of being a safe haven. The financial and non-financial world thrown in turmoil due to the pandemic plus its geopolitical aftermath and the volatility of stock markets has led to gold delivering superior returns in this year. So, it won’t be wrong […]
The Amazing Story of Bisleri Company
Reading Time: 6 minutes Bisleri – a brand that is synonymous with packaged drinking water in India, was originally an Italian company founded by Felice Bisleri. The story of Bisleri Company – How ‘Ek Bisleri Dena’ became the standard term for buying packaged drinking water in India. Today, Bisleri Company operates 122 plants (13 owned), 4500 distributors, and 5000 […]
The Massive Future of Pharma Contract Manufacturing Beyond 2020
Reading Time: 7 minutes Written By: Shuchi Nahar | Shuchi’s Blog | Linkedin Profile Contract Manufacturing (CDMO) Industry Insight The global pharmaceutical contract manufacturing & contract research market size was valued at over USD 123.1 billion in 2016. Cost-saving and time-saving benefits associated with the implementation of outsourcing is responsible for driving industrial growth. Companies are investing in infrastructure, personnel, and technology in order […]
Should I shift from Large Cap funds to Index funds?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Indian large-cap mutual fund space has two prominent options. Active large-cap funds and Index Funds. And this is a discussion about Index Funds Vs. Large Cap Funds in India 2020 to decide whether should you shift from Large-cap funds to Index Funds? Many mutual fund investors have been experiencing something odd about the large-cap funds […]
How much is PM Narendra Modi Net Worth?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Source link | Twitter Profile Did the title – Narendra Modi Net Worth – make your eyes take notice? After all, it’s our PM we are talking about. Assuming you want to know how much worth our honorable prime minister Narendra Modi is, please read ahead to know PM Narendra Modi’s assets in 2020. Given […]
Top 5 = 44%, Top 10 = 62%: Concentration Risk in Nifty 50?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Nifty 50, as you know is made up of 50 stocks of different weightages. And generally, it is accepted to be a well-diversified index that represents the Indian markets sufficiently well. But in recent times, the skewed weights of few of the top stocks in the index are posing questions about whether it is actually […]
An Incredible History of Bombay Stock Exchange
Reading Time: 5 minutes Source link | Twitter Profile | Linkedin Profile From Banyan Tree to Bombay Stock Exchange Tower Bombay of 18th century Bombay was in the cusp of a fundamental transformation by the early decades of the 18th century. And, by the early 19th century Bombay was fast recognized with its capitalist face. As many city merchants […]
What are Large Cap Funds in India & Where do they Invest?
Reading Time: 4 minutes According to SEBI’s mutual fund recategorization rules (2018), the equity mutual fund schemes that are classified as Large-cap funds have to invest a minimum of 80% of their assets in the large-cap stocks (i.e. in the top 100 listed stocks). By definition, the large-cap stocks are the stocks of the topmost companies listed on the […]
Should I invest in Sector Mutual Funds?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Whenever a sector or theme starts doing well in stock markets, investors get excited about it. They see an opportunity to generate better-than-average returns by investing in a sector fund that is poised to grow faster than the rest of the market. And to use this excitement to their benefit and to gather more AUM, […]
Why and How to choose the best investment adviser
Reading Time: 6 minutes In this article we will talk about why DIY investors should hire an Investment adviser before taking the plunge in the investing world. Investing is more than just buying few stocks and making profit. There are many other things you need to consider in your financial journey such as insurance, debt, savings, goals etc that […]
The Role of Luck in Investing
Reading Time: 7 minutes Talk to any renown investor on what traits define him or her, you may get an indication of the elusive “luck” element. The role of luck in investing. Shankar Sharma, Vice Chairman and Joint Managing Director at First Global, has always expressed a view that 90% of investing success is luck. It’s the role of […]
Should you take a Personal loan for House Downpayment?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Ideally, one should plan a house purchase well in advance so that they get sufficient time for arranging (or better still, saving for) the downpayment amount. It’s a general practice that when you take a home loan, you get a loan for only 80% of the purchase price. Your home loan wouldn’t fund the complete […]
New Mutual fund ‘Risk-o-Meter’ (2020) by SEBI
Reading Time: 6 minutes SEBI has revamped the mutual fund Risk-O-Meter (or Riskometer) via a new circular in October 2020 (link or download here). This time, the regulator has provided detailed guidelines for deciding the place of each mutual fund scheme on the Riskometer. What is Risk-o-meter for mutual funds? The Risk-O-Meter is a pictorial chart that depicts the […]
Dividend Option of Mutual Funds Renamed to ‘Income Distribution cum Capital Withdrawal’ option
Reading Time: 2 minutes SEBI has directed all mutual funds and AMCs to rename the dividend payout option in mutual funds schemes to Payout of Income Distribution cum Capital Withdrawal option. The circular announcing the change – link or download here. That is: Dividend (old name) – renamed to -> Income Distribution cum Capital Withdrawal (new name) But since […]
How Indexation in Debt Funds reduces Tax Outgo? (With Examples)
Reading Time: 8 minutes When fixed deposit rates are so low that there is nothing to write about, then it’s natural for people to try to look for alternatives to bank FDs. And one very obvious alternative is the debt fund. Debt funds have historically delivered returns better than fixed deposit. But if there is one major advantage that […]
Is LIC MF Debt Hybrid Fund a buy?
Reading Time: 6 minutes About LIC Mutual Fund House LIC Mutual Fund was established on 20th April 1989 by LIC of India. Being an associate company of India’s premier and most trusted brand, LIC Mutual Fund is one of the well-known players in the asset management sphere. The company has strong parentage of LIC which had helped it grow […]
Is your 9to5 in reality 24×7? And you hate it?
Reading Time: 2 minutes You know this. Your 9-to-5 job is not exactly that. If you also account for the mental stress and mind-f***s you get, it is much closer to 24×7. Zoom out a bit and its 24×365. Zoom out a bit more (and assuming you begin working at 25 and do so till 60), it becomes a […]
Portfolio Turnover is the Price of Progress
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of my favorite questions to ask other stock pickers is: How many stocks have you owned over the last five years and how many of those do you still own today? I don’t believe there is a right or wrong answer. It is just a great question that cuts to the core of several discussion topics […]
Portfolio Turnover is the Price of Progress
Reading Time: 5 minutes One of my favorite questions to ask other stock pickers is: How many stocks have you owned over the last five years and how many of those do you still own today? I don’t believe there is a right or wrong answer. It is just a great question that cuts to the core of several discussion topics […]
Glass Manufacturing sector from Investment point of view
Reading Time: 6 minutes Source link | Twitter Profile Hi all, I hope you are doing well. In our ongoing blog series of knowing various sector from investment point of view we are going to discuss the Glass Manufacturing sector next. Today we will know more about listed players in glass manufacturing sector, their packaging materials and many more products […]
Multi-Cap Fund Allocation Rule Change (2020) + Impact on your MF Portfolio
Reading Time: 6 minutes SEBI has modified the rules for Multicap equity mutual funds. So now a detailed allocation structure has been introduced for multi-cap funds. This has been done via a circular on ‘Asset Allocation of Multi-cap funds’ (dated 11-Sep 2020: link or download here). Going forward, all the schemes within this category will have to adhere to the […]