This has been a great year for Indian stocks. Year to date the Nifty has given nearly 25% returns. While years like 2017 are great for investor sentiment, we would like to reiterate that equity as an asset class is volatile in nature. Over the last 28...Read More
Investing your surplus cash in liquid funds is a much smarter option than having it lie idle in your savings bank account. Liquid fund are money market mutual funds and invest primarily in money market instruments...Read More
Do not forget as it is the last date for online filling of ITR for the FY 2011-12. The IT (Income Tax) Department provides an extended time for filing late ITR (Income Tax Return) till 2...Read More
In the last one year the Nifty rose from 5694 to 6483, a rise of 14%. During the same period S&P 500, the US stock index, rose from 1558 to 1860, a rise of 19%. With the benefit of hindsight, as a rational investor...Read More
Warren Buffet called investments to be a second source of income. Times may have changed and we may like to call ourselves modern but we still earn the traditional way i.e. from one pay cheque to another. We usually...Read More
FY 2014 - 2015 was a great year for mutual funds with equity funds seeing record inflows. Undoubtedly this is very good news for the industry and the equity market. However, if one looks at the big picture...Read More
Dhoom 3, starring Aamir Khan, recently broke all box office records, re-affirming the actor’s status as one of the most commercially successful stars for more than twenty years now. The superstar’s parallel...Read More
2017 was a great year for stock markets in India with the Nifty rising by nearly 2,470 points (a rise of nearly 29%). Mutual fund investors enjoyed fantastic returns, especially in the small and midcap funds category in 2017 – fund category return...Read More
In our industry the popular Hindi adage "jo dikhta hai, wahi bikta hai" applies as well as it applies to any other. But unfortunately our industry is such that the rule has to be re-written. "Jo dikhta hai wahi bechna...Read More
Two years back Wall Street Journal, the leading business and finance journal, published an article covering a study done by Lubos Pastor of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Robert Stambaugh and Lucian Taylor of...Read More