The Union Budget 2018 is out and you know that: • There is tax on long term capital gains over Rs 1 lakh on sale of equity shares at 10…
Posts TaggedEconomics
Proposed New Lending Benchmark: What It Means For You
Like loans the bank deposits too should be linked to floating rate external benchmark. So many times you have wondered, while interest rates have been coming down in response to…
Of Inflation Real Returns And Senior Citizens
Inflation-adjusted term deposits that give guaranteed real returns may be the answer to senior citizens’ woes of inflation eating into their retirement income In a scenario of falling interest rates,…
Financial Freedom: What It Means For You?
The function of money is to provide sustenance, and thereafter provide the means to attainment of the financial goals of life. As we hoist the tricolour and celebrate the progress…
Why Investors Should Look At Inflation Points
After RBI’s 25 bps rate cut, investors in long bond funds should stay invested and look to exit either when market runs ahead expecting the next rate cut or when…
How To Handle Legacy Holdings Of Client Portfolios?
Emotions and psychological biases are an integral part of investment management. Sometimes it is as important a part, or even more important, than hard facts and analysis. Here we will…
Why RBI Will Not Cut Rates In The Upcoming Policy Review Meet
A curtain raiser on RBI monetary policy review. In the run-up to any RBI Monetary Policy Review, the focus of the market is on policy rate i.e. either a change…
Preference Shares: Relevant For Fixed Income Investors
Preference shares depict features of bonds when one looks at risk-return profile. The term preference share evokes mixed reactions in terms of the risk-return profile, and is perceived as a…
Fixed Income Investment: Here’s How Investors Can Bond With The Best
Fixed income investments happen mostly through the mutual fund route, and rightly so, because of the advantages of accessibility and liquidity. Fixed income investments happen mostly through the mutual fund…
Should You Invest In A Bank Perpetual Bond?
The acceptability of these bonds is increasing gradually as more financial institutions and HNIs are taking exposure. We have seen a host of Bank Additional Tier I (AT1) Perpetual Bond…
Union Budget 2017-18: Road Remains Clear For Bond Investors
Advisers should emphasize on shorter maturity bond funds. The Union Budget holds some relevance for all the markets. From the perspective of investors in bonds and bond funds, the relevant…
FIIs Have Limited Relevance In The Indian Bond Market
SYNOPSISSome recent events are fresh in memory: demonetization and the US election result in November. The bond markets in US and India went on distinctly divergent directions The movement of…