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July Budget and slashing of SGBs: A setback for portfolio balancing

Understandable if govt decided not to bear exchange and capital appreciation risks on SGBs anymore, but this would be a pity for investors who would no longer have this option to balance portfolios

Capitalmind launches its first Alternative Investment Fund: Check details

The fund aims for a strategic expansion by leveraging its proven expertise in quantitative investment strategies

Compounding is in your interest: How to reinvest returns on your assets

Allowing returns to compound over time, investors can achieve their financial goals and secure a comfortable future

Smart landing: What to keep in mind when investing in real estate

While prices remained stagnant (2015 to 2021), incomes rose, enhancing affordability. This bodes well for the housing sector in a country facing a shortage of 20 million houses

Fractional investing: Millennials turning to new-age investment instrument

The alternative investment space has caught the fancy of young investors, with millennials dominating 60 per cent of investors' base into fractional investments, according to a report by Grip Invest, a digital investment platform. They are increasingly looking towards fractional asset investing in a bid to diversify their investment portfolios. In its report titled 'Gripping the Boom: Millennial in Fractional Investing', Grip Invest revealed that two-third of all investors on its platform are millennials. At present, Grip Invest has more than 26,000 investors, who have used the platform at least once. The report focuses on the transformative power of fractionalisation, a 150-year-old investing concept re-imagined for the digital age. Fractional investing allows a person to own a fraction or a share of an asset. Going by the report, 60 per cent of all orders made are from investors under 40 years of age bracket. Notably, investors as young as 21 years are choosing fractional high-y

Want to invest in sovereign gold bonds? Know details before investing

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issues SGBs on behalf of the government

Benefits of long-term investing: check out more details

Prior to making any investment decisions, research and analyse a product

4 Sectors to watch for investing this summer

Predictions of scorching heat in India are driving traders to look for stocks that perform well in an already overvalued market.

Investor should rebalance portfolio after surge in value fund returns

Investors must blend growth and value styles, enter with minimum five-year horizon

An antidote to bear market pessimism

The author of The Joy of Compounding has come up with another essential reading for all investors keen to master a strategy for navigating through severe bear markets

Investing for growth

Private-sector investment revival is crucial

Piramal Enterprises looks at sustained growth, profitability: Chairman

Piramal Enterprises is looking at sustained growth and profitability with the last few years spent in making balance sheets and businesses more resilient to tide over unforeseen uncertainties, according to Chairman Ajay G Piramal. In his address to shareholders in Annual Report for 2022-23, the business leader said the efforts over the last years have shown positive results with the group ending the last fiscal with a net profit of Rs 9,969 crore and total assets of Rs 83,386 crore. "We are now focused on sustained growth and profitability and to achieve our balance between three pillars - Growth, Risk and Profitability," Piramal stated. Focused business entities ensure not only focus in terms of business strategies but also help strengthen and ensure efficient use of our capital and human resources, he added. "We are certain that the consequent long-term value creation for all stakeholders will be achieved by strategically selecting our specialised bets in retail and wholesale bac

Rocky's road to investing

Authors Neil Borate, Aprajita Sharma, and Aditya Kondawar's book is a simplistic take on India's most successful investor, whose Midas touch lay in an unfettered belief in India's growth potential

Variable capital firms to boost India's fund management space, says Sahoo

Such entities have a variable capital base as they issues and redeems shares on an on-going basis. With every issue or redemption, the capital base of the VCC changes

HDFC Capital Advisors-backed property tech program gets 400 proposals

HDFC Capital Advisors, a subsidiary of mortgage lender HDFC, has raised over Rs 500 crore through global investors

Cash is king! Investing strategies to ride out choppy markets

They turn cautious and prefer defensive bets

SoftBank to bet on smaller ticket size for the second Vision Fund

The two funds together have invested over $11-12 billion in the country. Together with Softbank's direct investment, this goes up to $14 billion

CoinSwitch appoints former Myntra VP as head of crypto engineering

Sudheer Tumuluru joins CoinSwitch from Myntra where he was VP-engineering. With two decades of experience, he has built cloud, Big data and infrastructure platforms at tech firms in India and US

Sensex falls 710 pts, Nifty holds 15,400; Metal index drops 5%, RIL 3%

CLOSING BELL: In the broader markets, the Nifty MidCap100 and SmallCap100 indices fell up to 1.6 per cent.

Sensex zooms 934 pts, reclaims 52,500; Nifty tops 15,600; all sectors rally

CLOSING BELL: Beaten down PSB, Metal, and Energy (Oil and Gas) indices rose the most in today's trade. Related indices advanced between 4 per cent and 4.5 per cent