“Investors are now favoring multi-asset and hybrid funds, which provide the advantage of equity taxation. This shift indicates a trend where investors seek to optimize their tax efficiency,” says Pankaj Shrestha, Head – Investment Services, Prabhudas Lilladher. In an interview with ETMarkets, Shrestha said: “Investors today are more aware that, in the long term, equities … Read more
“Belief in the India growth story remains intact and hence ‘buy low sell high’ is entering their thought process especially in those who have been investing for 10 years plus,” says Sunil Subramaniam, MD, Sundaram Mutual.In an interview with ETMarkets, Subramaniam said: “Liquid segment is largely an Institutional play and do not see any reallocation … Read more
An alternative trading platform CEO wants to revolutionize private equity investing to help mitigate a stalling initial public offering market. So, Forge Global’s Kelly Rodriques partnered with Accuidity to launch the Forge Accuidity Private Market Index this spring. The ultimate goal: Give more investors easier access to unicorns. “This is a major financial innovation that’s … Read more
“Most investors are best served by investing into diversified equity funds, where fund managers will express their conviction on sector/themes stocks, with graded underweight/overweight calls,” says Kaustubh Belapurkar, Director – Manager Research, Morningstar Investment Research India Private Limited. In an interview with ETMarkets, Belapurkar said: “Don’t sell in panic, equity markets are a great long … Read more
Capital markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday proposed to enhance the threshold for the basic service demat account (BSDA) to Rs 10 lakh from the current Rs 2 lakh in a bid to boost the participation of retail investors in the securities market. A basic service demat account, or BSDA, is a more basic version of … Read more
A trader works as a screen displays the trading information for GameStop on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on May 15, 2024. Brendan McDermid | Reuters GameStop shares rose 25% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company on Friday announced that it had made around $933 million from a stock sale. … Read more
At a recent TV discussion where Dalal Street veteran Nilesh Shah was asked to share some stock ideas, he had no qualms about admitting that he has actually been on the receiving end of advice given by his cousins and that everyone in the audience has made far more money than what his fund managers … Read more
ARK Invest is betting big on private tech companies. “It’s an amazing time to invest in innovation,” the firm’s chief futurist, Brett Winton, told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week. “Both venture exposures and public innovation companies are incredibly well valued today to take a long-term investment.” Winton worked with the ARK Invest team to create … Read more
Larry Swedroe, who is considered one of the market’s most esteemed researchers, thinks Warren Buffett’s investment style doesn’t work well anymore. He cites the number of professional Wall Street firms and hedge funds now participating in the market. “Warren Buffett was generally considered the greatest stock picker of all time. And, what we have learned … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 10, 2024) MUMBAI: An army of retail investors has found a strong footing on Dalal Street over the last decade thanks to a bullish market and a pandemic-driven digital push. In April 2015, India had just over 2 crore individual demat accounts – the actual number of investors … Read more
