retail investor

This IPO fund puts 80% of its corpus in recently listed companies. Should you invest in it?

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This IPO fund puts 80% of its corpus in recently listed companies. Should you invest in it?

Imagine someone offers you VIP tickets to a concert for which others are struggling to gain entry (Coldplay, anyone?) That’s what the Edelweiss Recently Listed IPO Fund, India’s only IPO-focused fund, promises to do for retail investors who find it hard to get allotments in initial public offerings. It isn’t easy for the common investor … Read more

Dear ‘mature’ retail investor, you are the profit opportunity for others

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Dear ‘mature’ retail investor, you are the profit opportunity for others

Its been 30 years since I have been tracking the stock markets. And during this period, perhaps there have been about four instances when the retail investor has been labelled as ‘mature’. It happened during the telecom-media-tech boom of the late 1990s. The retail investor was apparently mature enough to understand that the world had … Read more