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For this assessment year (FY 2020-21 / AY 2021-22), the Government has provided investors the option of sticking to the current income tax rates (as per their income slabs) and claiming exemption like Section 80C, 80D, HRA etc. or moving to the new tax regime with lower tax rates for incomes below Rs 15 lakhs but giving up most of the...

Volatility is the statistical measure of fluctuations in price of an asset. In 1953, Nobel Prize winning economist Henry Markowitz introduced the concept of volatility as a measure of investment risk. Volatility is of great significance to traders in the stock market, especially those who trade in derivatives (futures and options)...

Nippon Life India Asset Management has launched Nippon India ETF Nifty CPSE Bond Plus SDL – 2024 Maturity. It is an open ended exchange traded fund (ETF) which will invest in constituents of Nifty CPSE Bond Plus SDL Sep 2024 50:50 Index. The New Fund Offer (NFO) which opens on 3rd November 2020 and closes on 9th November...

Passive investing i.e. investing through ETFs or index funds is very popular in the developed economies. Passive mutual fundswere launched in the 1970s, but their popularity soared globally after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. As on March 2020, global assets under management (AUM) in passive mutual funds crossed...

Small cap funds, as a category is the best performer among diversified equity funds over the last 6 months or so. We had mentioned a number of times in our blog that small caps saw deep correction in 2018 & 2019 and were well positioned to stage a smart recovery. When the stock market crashed in March 2020 due to outbreak of...

Goal based financial planning is a method which can help you achieve multiple goals across different stages of life. There are some common life-stage goals of most investors e.g. buying a house, children’s higher education and marriage, retirement planning and leaving an estate for your loved ones. In addition to these goals, some...

ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is an instrument which invests in the basket of securities that, reflects the composition of a market index like Nifty, Sensex, Nifty – 100, etc. ETFs aim to replicate the performance of an index as closely as possible. Unlike actively managed funds, ETFs do not aim to beat the market. After the NFO subscription...

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) and index funds are passive schemes, which aim to track a particular market index like Sensex, Nifty 50 etc. ETFs and Index funds both invests in a basket of stocks which replicate the underlying index. ETFs are listed on stock exchanges and can be bought or sold through stock exchanges. For transactions of...

The Coronavirus pandemic has caused massive disruptions in many people’s lives. Several million people all over the world got infected by the disease and more than half a million tragically lost their lives. India also has been badly hit by the pandemic with several thousand fatalities. We went through a two month lockdown and there are...

According to SEBI, stocks whose market Capitalizations are smaller than the 250th company by market Cap are classified as SmallCap stocks. SmallCap companies tend to be newer companies or emerging companies which have not yet reached the scale of operations associated with Mid Cap companies. These companies can be in sectors...