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June 28, 2020

Govt to launch new floating rate savings taxable bonds at 7.15%; what you need to know

Suitable for those who need regular income; the interest rate on these 7-year taxable bonds will be reset every six months

June 25, 2020

Investment lessons from the Covid-19 rout

Buy only when a company fits into your investment strategy. Don’t make your portfolio a collection of stocks – rather it should be a collection of businesses fulfilling your strategy, says Amit Gupta

June 17, 2020

3 questions answered about how to exit when financial goal is near completion

The correct strategy to withdraw money from your investments towards the end of your goal completion depends on a host of factors such as your personal situation; what works for your friend may not work for you

June 12, 2020

ICICI Pru Largecap, Contra, Kotak Pharma PMS strategies top May chart with over 3% gains

In terms of laggards, Lake Water, Trivantage Resurgent Financials and Basant Maheshwari Equity reported 6-13% decline

June 8, 2020

ULIP review: How well do Tata AIA Life’s equity funds fare against peers

Our study showed that the Whole Life Mid Cap Equity Fund and Large Cap Equity Fund have done well against benchmark as well as ULIP fund peers across various point to point time-periods

June 2, 2020

Long-Short AIFs beat long-only peers in 1 year

Long-short investment strategy seeks to take a long position in underpriced stocks while selling short overpriced shares

June 1, 2020

GoI 7.75% bonds discontinued: What are the other low-risk regular income options

After the cut in deposit rates by banks and the cut in small savings rate by the government, it has now removed the remaining safe investment option

May 26, 2020

Arbitrage funds are better than short term debt fund options if you can give 6-12 months

The worst 1-year returns for top arbitrage funds have been between +2.1% and +5.7%; investors must spare sometime on the quality of debt book run by arb funds

May 18, 2020

How PMSes performed in FY20: The best delivered 7.6% and the worst fell by 41.2%

A look at how different strategies performed in April 2019 to March 2020 period; the returns were impacted by the March 2020 crash in stock markets

May 11, 2020

6 of 17 largecap PMSes beat Nifty in April; Kotak Pharma PMS notches up 26%

In the 17 pure largecap PMSes, the average return was 12.14% in April compared to Nifty’s 14.7%

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