As yields rise, a large number of asset management companies have launched fixed maturity plans (FMPs) to take advantage of better returns for investors even as bank deposit returns lag… Read more »
While managing your money, you often deploy a combination of research, gut, gambling, trust and of course, expertise of others. The end result is often mixed – sometimes fantastic and… Read more »
One of the major news headlines this month was around SIPs and how flows had finally started getting impacted adversely. Yet again, retail investors started losing calm? Or is it… Read more »
In our previous blog, we had written about the prospective launch of our international investing portal, PL Vested https://www.plindia.com/blog/des-pardes-the-how-and-why-of-investing-in-us-markets/ Since then, a lot has changed in the world – with… Read more »
The last one week of market collapses is the fastest fall of 10% or more ever seen. It puts other notorious falls in the market, (the Asian crisis of October… Read more »
Yesterday, Feb 24 2020, brought US Yields to almost their decadal lows and the US Dollar Index close to a critical benchmark of 100 – even as Gold pushed to… Read more »
We all talk about how the Indian economy may be facing its worst time in years – and in the same breath, how the future of the nation looks bright… Read more »
In an earlier piece in August 2019, we had forecast that Nifty (https://www.plindia.com/blog/nifty-sectors-outlook-a-mean-reversion-under-way/) may surpass 12200 or so soon. Another piece (https://www.plindia.com/blog/is-a-money-tsunami-on-its-way-to-india/ had mentioned how FPI flows will be ginormous this… Read more »
Increased news flows have impacted equity traders in the short term apart from higher margins on contracts reducing capital available. Some of these traders have, in recent times, turned their… Read more »
ULIPs came into bad light in the 2000s as newly launched insurers capitalized on the madness in equities and the aggression of sales channels to create products which were inherently… Read more »