It was a volatile February but the India story still looks good While the Sensex and the Nifty scaled new highs this month, rising bond yields led to some pullback. Rating agencies S&P and Nomura on the other hand projected impressive GDP growth for India so the long term story still looks quite good.
How an NRI should act upon Budget 2021 Budget 2021 had some interesting announcements for NRIs, including on issues like double taxation.
The India of tomorrow – what does it look like? How does the Union Budget 2021 help? - A Scripbox analysis A budget is an important event – It signals the direction in which the government is moving. It gives us an insight into their thinking. We take a look at this budget through the lens of “Does this budget help realize the India I want”.
Budget 2021 - You can no longer ignore investing in equity If you were sitting out of the market thinking a big correction will come, you would be feeling a sense of regret. The only way to manage investments in equity assets is to focus on asset allocation.
January marks hopeful beginning to 2021 as vaccinations begin and Sensex touches new highs The swearing-in of Biden and the stimulus package planned, Sensex hitting 50,000 and TCS becoming the second Indian company with a Rs12 trillion market cap were some of the highlights of the month.
Some multi cap mutual funds are moving into the flexi cap category - How does this affect you as an investor? In Sep 2020, SEBI had tweaked the investment mandate of Multi cap Funds. As per the circular from SEBI, multi-cap funds are required to invest at least 25% of their assets each in large, mid and small cap stocks.
While it rained stimulus packages in December, wait and watch remains the rule As stimulus packages were released globally and the world wonders about a new strain of the Coronavirus even as multiple vaccines become accessible, the year is ending with markets staying cautiously optimistic.
October sees market volatility and multiple moves from SEBI While market volatility continues, there was no drastic fall despite the IMF revising their predicted contraction of India’s FY ‘21 GDP from 4.5% to 10.3% from the June forecast of 4.5%.
Volatility returns in earnest in September as markets struggle globally The markets are turbulent, largely because of global factors. The uncertainty over the US stimulus, combined with the consistent commentary that the markets are not in sync with the economy, and a second wave of Covid cases, meant that investors are nervous about business growth.
Mutual fund companies will now allot units only after receiving money We believe that this is not of importance to consumers because the exact date of allotment of units has very little bearing on your outcomes over the long term. If you are doing a SIP, you don’t really know what the market condition would be on any given day in the future.
The recent SEBI circular on Multi Cap funds - What does it mean for you? There has been a change in the minimum investment required in companies of various market capitalisations, in multi cap funds.
