News From Press

With Sensex and Nifty down by more than 30 per cent, the stock markets are in the bear territory now. Experts say the bear market is the best time to buy but what are investors are planning to do now.

The additional benefit offered by Tata AIA, wherein they will offer additional benefit equal to the base sum assured or Rs 5 lakh whichever is lower for valid death claims due to coronavirus.

The big question on everybody’s mind right now is how bad the economic downturn will be, and what kind of recovery lies ahead.

Big FII flow created a balloon in private banks, which is getting pricked, says MD, Sundaram MF.

We talked to some financial planners and mutual fund distributors to find out whether they also face similar queries every day. Indeed, they do.

Back in 2018, the fund house had put up an addendum saying, “The limit on subscriptions of units has been done with a view that increasing the size of the corpus of the scheme may prove detrimental to existing unitholders of the scheme.”

An insurer generally works on a concept where they create a fund through premiums (paid by all their policyholders) and pay the insurance claims of those policy holders who die each year, from this fund.

​Equity saving schemes are sold as `one of the safest’ investment products. A typical sales pitch goes like this: “look at the portfolio. It is debt, arbitrage, and a little bit of equity.

​​For those in the high tax bracket, if they hold these funds for more than three years, these products will also get indexation benefits, which will significantly improve the post-tax returns.

Economic discussions seem to center on whether we’re headed towards a depression or whether the shape of the recovery will be a V, U or L. I do not agree with comparisons to the Great Depression given the stark difference in the fiscal and monetary policy responses.

Even as investors recently lost most of the gains made during the first half of the previous fiscal, market participants are busy chalking out plans on how to tide over the troubles that the new financial year brings.

The loan deferment is a welcome move for the borrowers who are facing any cash flow mismatch on account of the recent outbreak of Covid-19.

While there is a cap on what private labs can charge for the covid-19 test, there is no limit on how much private hospitals can charge for treatment

Whenever there is a high level of fear or panic, either in the economy or the markets, money tends to move into gold.

One approach that can boost long-term profitability involves increasing equity allocation as the markets fall, and decreasing it as they rise, instead of adhering to a fixed allocation