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Source: Live Mint Imagine you’re shopping for shoes on Amazon. You start with thousands of options but gradually narrow your search using filters like category, colour, size and material until you find the perfect pair. This process mirrors the concept of factor investing: using specific criteria, or factors, to filter and select investments. What are…
Source: Live Mint Equities continued to dominate investors’ minds in 2024. This is despite an eventful year with high volatility due to multiple global events, including a new war, weaker-than-expected economic growth, disappointing earnings, and subsequent FPI outflows. Going forward, factors like corporate earnings slowdown, sticky inflation, geopolitical tensions, higher US bond yields, strong dollar…
Source: Live Mint TSX off 1% in broader declines Healthcare, tech stocks at the bottom (Updates after markets open) Dec 30 (Reuters) – Canada’s main stock index dropped more than 1% on Monday in broader market declines as investors opted to secure some profits and take stock of market conditions heading into the new year….
Source: Live Mint Time: 5.30 pm, early May Place: Pitampura, north-west Delhi People wait anxiously in front of a roadside food cart. The long, long queue spills over from the pavement onto the street, leaving bikes, cars, cows and canines jostling for space on the narrow road. A few paces ahead, half a dozen vloggers…
Source: Live Mint India’s market regulator has found that investments worth more than ₹1 trillion by alternative investment funds (AIFs) were circumventing regulations, underscoring the need for a more robust investor protection-oriented approach, according to wholetime member Ananth Narayan G. “Out of the five trillion of actual drawdown, around one trillion of investment has been…
Source: Live Mint India’s markets regulator has set a minimum investment threshold of ₹10 lakh for investing in specialised investment funds (SIF), a new asset class that allows mutual funds to offer advanced investment strategies to investors. Accredited investors, however, are exempt from this requirement, as per the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s framework…
Source: Live Mint Over the years, it has become evident that the most significant challenges in wealth management rarely stem from market complexities or economic uncertainties. Instead, they emerge from the intricate relationship between human emotions and financial decisions. Time and again, we have witnessed how our emotional responses to money can override years of…
Source: Live Mint On a recent morning walk, a friend asked me: “Mutual funds to sahi hai, but why do I need a financial advisor to guide my investment decisions?” He said he could do his own asset allocation, identify funds to invest in based on the information and ratings available, monitor his portfolio and…
Source: Live Mint The Indian market offers diverse avenues for portfolio diversification, including alternative investments such as portfolio management services (PMS) and alternate investment funds (AIFs). Equity investments, for instance, have delivered an impressive average annual return of 15% over the past five years, outperforming most major economies. Mutual funds also remain a popular choice,…
Source: Live Mint In 2022, the Indian government introduced a flat 30% income tax on gains from cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Investors riding the current rally should be aware of their advance tax and reporting obligations to avoid penalties under the Income Tax (IT) Act. With a 1% TDS deducted on sales of these…
