How can you cultivate a strong financial safety net for your siblings?

How can you cultivate a strong financial safety net for your siblings?

As millennials, it’s commonplace for us to prioritise our personal financial aspirations. However, amidst our pursuits, we must recognize the financial security of our younger siblings, who may still need to gain the maturity or resources to secure their own financial futures. Rather than solely indulging in fleeting pleasures like gadgets or social outings, we … Read more

Mutual funds: SIP contributions jumped 28% to nearly ₹2 lakh crore in FY24, shows AMFI data

Mutual funds: SIP contributions jumped 28% to nearly ₹2 lakh crore in FY24, shows AMFI data

Thanks to the ongoing bull run, total inflow into equity mutual fund schemes during the fiscal year 2023-24 touched ₹1.84 lakh crore. Significantly, total inflow into all the mutual fund schemes via systematic investment plans (SIPs) stood at ₹1.99 lakh crore, 28 per cent higher than ₹1.56 lakh crore recorded in the preceding financial year. … Read more

Mutual Funds: Net AUM declines marginally to ₹53 lakh crore in March, shows AMFI data

Mutual Funds: Net AUM declines marginally to ₹53 lakh crore in March, shows AMFI data

The mutual fund (MF) industry’s net assets under management (AUM) declined by 2 per cent to ₹53,40,194 crore at the end of March 2024, as against ₹54.54 lakh crore as on February 29 this year, data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) reveals. The number of new SIPs registered in March … Read more

Sensex, Nifty on the dance floor — should you simply invest in index funds and relax? Here is what experts say

Sensex, Nifty on the dance floor — should you simply invest in index funds and relax? Here is what experts say

The Sensex closed above the 75,000 mark for the first time on Wednesday, April 10. The NSE Nifty50 index has touched the 22,700 mark. The benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty have soared around 18.74 per cent and 20.03 per cent respectively during the Calendar Year 2023.  In fiscal 2024, the Nifty posted a 30 per … Read more

Rahul Gandhi’s asset portfolio: Needs a facelift just like his politics — this is what experts say

Rahul Gandhi’s asset portfolio: Needs a facelift just like his politics — this is what experts say

Among several disclosures, he also disclosed his total assets amounting to ₹20 crore. He has ₹9.24 crore in movable assets, out of which ₹55,000 in cash, ₹26.25 lakh in bank deposits, ₹4.33 crore in bonds and shares, ₹3.81 crore in mutual funds, ₹15.21 lakh in gold bonds and ₹4.20 lakh in jewellery. We spoke to … Read more

Investment mantra: How much should you allocate to small-cap funds?

Investment mantra: How much should you allocate to small-cap funds?

Recently I was talking to my uncle who is in his late forties. And as always happens with me (being in the financial advisory space), the topic of investments came up. He said that his investments had done phenomenally well over the last few years. On enquiring further, I came to know that his mutual … Read more

Small-, mid-caps erase most losses since mid-March

Small-, mid-caps erase most losses since mid-March

“While the year-end profit booking, Sebi advisories to mutual funds to curb froth in smids (small- and mid-cap counters) and overvaluation in some counters caused the broader market indices to correct sharply till the middle of last month, selective picking by funds and other investors at lower levels erased the losses in the second-half, which … Read more

Retail investors and the fixation with equity MFs

Retail investors and the fixation with equity MFs

Retail investors predominantly invest in equity mutual fundsand, as per data put out by the Association of Mutual Funds in India in December, over 95% of the assets under management (AUM) in debt mutual funds (MFs) comes from corporate entities, while over 90% of equity AUM comes from retail and HNI (high net worth individuals) … Read more

With RBI expected to cut interest rates later this year, where should you invest?

With RBI expected to cut interest rates later this year, where should you invest?

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to cut the interest rates later this year, thus kicking off the rate cut cycle in the market. However, RBI in its Feb 2024 monetary policy meeting (MPC) kept the interest rates unchanged for the sixth time in a row.  But this is expected to change as the banking … Read more