Our analysis suggests that many of the larger companies, leading the Nifty, continue to grow at rates higher than nominal GDP growth and are trading at valuations that are reasonable. Moreover, as and when the economy recovers, growth rates will be stronger than long term expected growth rates as companies start re-stocking their inventories.

Despite the weak economy, the stock markets have been holding up well on the back of the reduced corporate income tax rates leading to higher earnings growth. Moreover, this step is expected to trigger an investment cycle.

Stock markets in India rebounded strong, post the announcement of reduced tax rates for Indian companies. The Nifty was up sharply, making up for the losses over the past few months.

In one stroke, the FM reduced the corporate rates from 34.9% to 25.2%. Let’s find out how it benefits shareholders and thus you, as an investor.

Market watchdog Sebi recently came out with new guidelines for liquid funds. The newly introduced norms could potentially change the portfolio orientation of liquid funds.

NBFC Credit flow impacting GDP growth. Scripbox Market Commentary June 2019.

Here’s our assessment of equity and debt markets in April 2019. Equity markets were muted after a strong March. Election outcome and the resulting clarity in terms of policy is expected to guide market direction post April.

A few weeks back, investor Thiyagarajan Chandrasekaran posted on a popular financial portal ‘there is no dividend for the month of December-18 and February-19’. Thiyagarajan had put his hard-earned money in a top-rated balanced scheme of a mutual fund and was surprised to know that monthly dividends were not guaranteed.

It’s never too early to start planning for your retirement. As the saying goes, you can retire from work, but you needn’t retire from life. Managing your daily expenses and lifestyle desires, like travelling and spending on grand children is a part of what planning your retirement finances can help with.

Mirae Asset India Equity Fund will be renamed Mirae Asset Large Cap Fund. The fund was earlier categorised as a ‘Multi-cap fund’, which meant that it could invest across large, mid and small caps. With this change, it will be categorised as a ‘Large Cap fund’. This means, it will predominantly invest in large cap stocks only.

Here’s our assessment of equity and debt markets in March 2019. Apart from the elections, larger issues having an impact on the market are strong buying by foreign portfolio investors (FPI), a stronger rupee, and the banking sector logjam.

When markets tend to go through their occasional drops, the people who come out on top are often those who kept on investing as if nothing has happened. They had the wisdom to realize that they can’t predict when markets will go up nor when they will go down.