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How To Prepare Your Financial Portfolio For The New Financial Year

A new financial year has arrived. This is a good time to conduct the annual checkup of your portfolio to ensure that it is in good shape and ready for the challenges of the coming year. Here are some broad guidelines you should follow for constructing a new portfolio, or realigning an old portfolio.

What you must know about LIC

LIC's IPO may hit the Street soon. Here are some facts and figures that will help you assess this insurance behemoth.

Your annual dose of Buffett's wit & wisdom

Insightful excerpts from Warren Buffett's annual letter for 2021 to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway

Who do sanctions serve?

The US has imposed crushing sanctions on Russia to punish the latter's aggression against Ukraine. But it's not the target alone that is affected by such sanctions.

The confidence trick

Markets fall and then rise. And with them, many stocks fall and rise again.

INDIA'S MOST WANTED MID CAPS

COMPANIES AT THE TOP OF THE LISTS

A crude story

Major events impacting crude-oil prices over the last 50 years

"Volatility is a part and parcel of mid-cap investing'

INTERVIEW: ANIRUDDHA NAHA Head Equity PGIM India Mutual Fund

Busting Popular Macroeconomic Myths

Are rising rates bad for the market and is high inflation bad for quality stocks?

Your Investment Options In The Life-Insurance Space

As the LIC IPO approaches, here's how the three listed life insurers compare with each other

How to file a life-insurance claim

Our regular readers know the importance we attach to life insurance and buying an adequate term plan for that. But what about making a claim when the need arises?

WAR & INVESTING

What to do and what not to

How should a 39-year-old start his equity journey?

Vivek has so far invested only in fixed-income instruments. Now he wants to start investing in equities. Here's what he should do.

A convenient gateway to new companies

Edelweiss Recently Listed IPO Fund invests in IPOs and newly listed companies. Here are its pros and cons.

'In July 2021, my portfolio crossed the magical figure of eight digits'

Sandeep Nagpal's wealth-creation journey explains how sticking to investing principles rewards in the long term

A missed opportunity

AMCs have disclosed the Potential Risk Class matrices for their debt schemes. Only two AMCs have made good use of this mandatory risk disclosure.

BUILD ALLOCATION TO GOLD AMID GROWING GEOPOLITICAL UNCERTAINTY

Fixed Income

MULTI ASSET - A SUPERIOR INVESTMENT STRATEGY FOR CURRENT TIMES

Over the last decade, we have witnessed easy liquidity conditions and rate cuts by global central banks which created a conducive environment for equity markets to perform.

MIND THE GAP

Financial Planning

HERE'S WHAT EQUITY MUTUAL FUND INVESTORS MAY DO WHEN STOCK MARKET SENSES CORRECTION

2022 began with a lot of hope as far as the equity market is concerned. On the back of spectacular returns since the second half of 2020 and later in 2021, the expectations were high for the stock market to continue its run. However, the stock market is not a one-way street and prices go up and down. The good news is that any dips and corrections in the market are used by smart investors as an opportunity to buy more. Afterall, buying low-selling high remains the best move forward in the equity market.

SAVE FOR LONG TERM GOALS WITH UNIT-LINKED INSURANCE PLAN – KNOW BENEFITS, FEATURES AND HOW ULIPS WORK

Life Insurance

How To Invest In A Rising Interest Rate Environment

Interest rates in India are moving up. After the Union Budget, the 10-year government security (G-Sec) touched the 6.95 per cent mark, though it has softened since then to the 6.66 per cent level (as on February 18). Nonetheless, the general expectation is that interest rates are likely to rise in 2022. This will have an impact on your investments.

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Lifestyle Planning

Tax Benefits That You May Avail By Investing In National Pension System

Tax Planning

Which is the best NPS plan?

There are seven managers and four types of schemes in the National Pension System. Here's how you can make the most of this retirement tool.

ഹരിച്ചാലും ഗുണിച്ചാലും ഓഹരിയിൽ ലാഭം തന്നെ

ഉറപ്പില്ലായ്മ, നഷ്ടം, അനിശ്ചിതത്വം, ബാഹ്യഘടകങ്ങളുടെ സ്വാധീനം, ചാഞ്ചാട്ടം തുടങ്ങിയവയാണ് ലോകത്ത് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ ലാഭം നൽകുന്ന നിക്ഷേപമാർഗമായി ഓഹരിയെ മാറ്റുന്നത്.

ഡേറ്റ കൊണ്ടുള്ള കളികൾ

പതിനെട്ടാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിൽ പെട്രോളിയം സാധ്യത കണ്ടറിഞ്ഞ കാലത്തെപ്പോലെയാണ് ഇരുപത്തൊന്നാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിൽ ബിഗ് ഡേറ്റ എന്നാണു പറയുന്നത്.

Pledging tracker

Companies that have seen a rise or decline in promoter pledging in Q3 FY22

Profiting from technological disruption

Technology-led disruption is affecting many sectors and dealing with it has become a major challenge for investors. Axis Special Situations Fund is a thematic scheme that seeks to tap the power of disruptive growth. We speak with its fund manager, Ashish Naik, to understand how he manages this fund, which sectors are more vulnerable to disruption and which are more resilient, and which themes investors can bet on, among other things.

Market barometer

MARKET COMPASS