With gold prices looking up this year, should you consider investing in it?

For a normal investor, these are the times when the belief in equity markets is shaken.   There is a certain method of selecting financial instruments for investments at any time, market crisis or not.  You first figure out what you...

Value funds are equity funds that invest in stocks that are quoting below their intrinsic worth. Its investing style typically follows the value investing philosophy made famous by the legendary investor Benjamin Graham in the 1930s.  After losing heavily in...

About 37 per cent and 60 per cent of large-cap funds managed to beat the index returns over a five- year and 10-year period respectively. In the process, many gave inflation-beating returns to their long-term investors, despite the recent market correction. It underscores the importance of a hands-on approach to investing and the key role of active equity fund managers.

You may think that you are preserving capital when you shift out of equity uncertainty today and shift back into the market when things are less chaotic and perhaps the uptrend has started again. This is a very difficult strategy to implement.

If you expect to be a net saver during the next five years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong.

While equity risk is very high in the short term, it is also the most viable form of investment to create wealth in the long term. Hence, instead of feeling sorry about your investment returns today, focus on these three things which can impact your future financial outcome.

The 35 percent market correction (as of 19th March 2020) from its peak has pulled down market valuations. Two points are worth noting about this.